ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,480, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PURE LITHIUM Corp. (Charlestown, Mass.).
"Methods for forming an energy storage device" was invented by Emilie Bodoin (Charlestown, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are proposed for manufacturing dendrite-resistant lithium metal electrodes suitable for incorporation into lithium metal batteries. In an embodiment, the method involves first electroplating a copper sheet onto a surface of a single crystal of silicon, the silicon being doped to form a p-type or an n-type semiconductor, and then further electroplating the copper sheet with lithium metal. The lithium-electroplated coppe...