US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on March 18 for "Method of synthesizing high-efficiency bifunctional electrocatalysts" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,692, issued on March 18, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Method of synthesizing high-efficiency bifunctional electrocatalysts" was invented by Yang Yang (Orlando, Fla.) and Jinfa Chang (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The design of bifunctional catalysts for water splitting by modifying the electronic structure of the catalyst. That bifunctional catalyst that is synthesized is a quaternary FeNi-PSe nanoporous film (FeNi-PSe NF). A self-supported FeNi-PSE NF is synthesized and used as an anode and a cathode in a two-electrode electrolytic cell. The cell is subjecte...