US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 18 for "Single-atom tailoring of platinum nanocatalysts for high-performance multifunctional electrocatalysis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,339, issued on March 18, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Single-atom tailoring of platinum nanocatalysts for high-performance multifunctional electrocatalysis" was invented by Xiangfeng Duan (Los Angeles), Yu Huang (Los Angeles), Chengzhang Wan (Los Angeles) and Mufan Li (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are catalyst materials comprising a catalyst support; and PtM' nanowires affixed to the catalyst support, wherein the PtM' nanowires include single atomic species of M' at exterior surfaces of the PtM' nanowires, and M' represents at least one metal, e.g., a m...