US Patent Issued to Paul Scherrer Institut on Jan. 27 for "Porous transport layer based on multiple micro and nano sintered porous layers" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,207, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Paul Scherrer Institut (Villigen PSI, Switzerland).

"Porous transport layer based on multiple micro and nano sintered porous layers" was invented by Felix Buechi (Langenthal, Switzerland) and Tobias Schuler (Turgi, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A porous transport layer has a plurality of sintered porous layers with a permeability for gaseous and liquid substances. The multilayer porous transport layer is assembled between a bipolar plate and a catalyst layer of an electrochemical cell. A first and second porous layer have irregularly shaped particles of a conductive material. The m...