US Patent Issued to Novonix Battery Technology Solutions on March 25 for "Method for making low surface area alloy particulate with high silicon content" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,632, issued on March 25, was assigned to Novonix Battery Technology Solutions Inc. (Dartmouth, Canada).

"Method for making low surface area alloy particulate with high silicon content" was invented by Mark N. Obrovac (Halifax, Canada), Simeng Cao (Halifax, Canada) and Mina Salehabadi (Halifax, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A simple method for making low surface area alloy particles with high silicon content has been discovered. The method involves two ball milling steps in which silicon containing precursor particles undergo a first milling to render the elemental silicon present to have an average grain size less than 20 nm...