US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on July 8 for "High ionic conductivity composite LiLaZrBiO garnet-polymer electrolyte" (Indiana, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,030, issued on July 8, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"High ionic conductivity composite LiLaZrBiO garnet-polymer electrolyte" was invented by Andres Villa Pulido (Santa Fe, N.M.), Esteban Marinero-Caceres (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Muhammed Oduncu (Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling the ionic conductivity of a polymer member, including providing a plurality of particles of bi-doped garnet, dispersing the plurality of particles of bi-doped garnet in a PEO matrix to yield a polymer member, nucleating spherulites at bi-doped garnet particle sites, and growing spheru...