US Patent Issued to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY on Feb. 10 for "Refractory alloyed iron-based redox active foams for iron-air batteries, fabricating methods and applications of same" (Missouri, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,833, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.).

"Refractory alloyed iron-based redox active foams for iron-air batteries, fabricating methods and applications of same" was invented by Jacob Benjamin Mack (Chesterfield, Mo.), Samuel Mark Pennell (Chicago) and David C. Dunand (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention in one aspect relates to an iron-based foam usable for an electrochemical device, comprising a composition comprising iron and a refractory element processed to form the iron-based foam having a hierarchical porous structure with self-assembled channels for gas flow rea...