ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,081, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to UCHICAGO ARGONNE LLC (Chicago).
"Sodium-ion electrochemical cells and batteries" was invented by Christopher S. Johnson (Naperville, Ill.), Hui Xiong (Woodridge, Ill.), Tijana Rajh (Naperville, Ill.), Elena Shevchenko (Riverside, Ill.) and Sanja Tepavcevic (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a nanostructured metal oxide material for use as a component of an electrode in a sodium-ion battery. The material comprises a nanostructured titanium oxide film on a metal foil substrate, which can be produced by depositing or forming a nanostructured titanium dioxide mat...