US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on March 25 for "Conformal graphene cage encapsulated battery electrode materials and methods of forming thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,287, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Conformal graphene cage encapsulated battery electrode materials and methods of forming thereof" was invented by Yuzhang Li (Stanford, Calif.), Kai Yan (Stanford, Calif.), Zhenda Lu (Stanford, Calif.) and Yi Cui (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conformal graphene-encapsulated battery electrode material is formed by: (1) coating a battery electrode material with a metal catalyst to form a metal catalyst-coated battery electrode material; (2) growing graphene on the metal catalyst-coated batter...