US Patent Issued to OneD Material on July 22 for "Nanostructured battery active materials and methods of producing same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,162, issued on July 22, was assigned to OneD Material Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Nanostructured battery active materials and methods of producing same" was invented by Wanqing Cao (Fremont, Calif.), Virginia Robbins (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Yimin Zhu (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for producing nanostructures from copper-based catalysts on porous substrates, particularly silicon nanowires on carbon-based substrates for use as battery active materials, are provided. Related compositions are also described. In addition, novel methods for production of copper-based catalyst particles are provided. Methods for ...