US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 5 for "Method and system for production of porous graphitic carbon materials embedded with active components" (California, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,699, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Method and system for production of porous graphitic carbon materials embedded with active components" was invented by David Kisailus (Riverside, Calif.) and Hongjie Tang (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for producing carbon fibers with active components such as those for oxygen reduction reactions (ORR). The method includes electrospinning a solution of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and a transition metal into composite fibers; and annealing the composite fibers in an inert/reducing atmosphere."

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