US Patent Issued to The Penn State Research Foundation on March 25 for "Polymer-inorganic solid-electrolyte interphase for stable metal batteries under lean electrolyte conditions" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,298, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pa.).

"Polymer-inorganic solid-electrolyte interphase for stable metal batteries under lean electrolyte conditions" was invented by Donghai Wang (University Park, Pa.), Tom Mallouk (University Park, Pa.) and Yue Gao (University Park, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a reactive polymer composite comprising a reactive functionalized polymer having a main polymer chain with functionalization along the main polymer chain, wherein the functionalization comprises one or more functional groups that are configured to react with a met...