US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Aug. 12 for "Stabilized catalyst layers via controlled cracking" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,092, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Stabilized catalyst layers via controlled cracking" was invented by Daniil A. Kitchaev (Brookline, Mass.), Mordechai Kornbluth (Brighton, Mass.), Lei Cheng (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan Braaten (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Christina Johnston (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microcracked and crack-free catalyst layers such as for electrodes in electrochemical cells (e.g., fuel cells) and method of making the same are disclosed. The microcracks may improve durability by better tolerating stresses without inducing or propagating into macrocra...