US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on Dec. 30 for "Electrochemical cell including piezoelectric structure that reduces solid-electrolyte interphase layer growth on electrode, and method for using the same" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,561, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Electrochemical cell including piezoelectric structure that reduces solid-electrolyte interphase layer growth on electrode, and method for using the same" was invented by Wei Lu (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Tianhan Gao (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed that can improve the capacity, energy and cycle life of an electrochemical cell by using a structure comprising a piezoelectric material. In one form, the electrochemical cell comprises: an anode having a solid-electrolyte interphase layer fo...