US Patent Issued to National Institute for Materials Science on April 8 for "Porous carbon structure, manufacturing method therefor, positive electrode material using same, and battery using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,826, issued on April 8, was assigned to National Institute for Materials Science (Tsukuba, Japan).

"Porous carbon structure, manufacturing method therefor, positive electrode material using same, and battery using same" was invented by Eiki Yasukawa (Tsukuba, Japan), Takashi Kameda (Tsukuba, Japan), Shoichi Matsuda (Tsukuba, Japan), Shoji Yamaguchi (Tsukuba, Japan), Shin Kimura (Tsukuba, Japan), Kimihiko Ito (Tsukuba, Japan) and Yoshimi Kubo (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a porous carbon structure that has a high micropore volume and can be self-contained; a ma...