US Patent Issued to University of North Texas on Feb. 17 for "Cathode coated with catalysts and hybrid electrolytes for high-energy density lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,771, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to University of North Texas (Denton, Texas).

"Cathode coated with catalysts and hybrid electrolytes for high-energy density lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries" was invented by Wonbong Choi (Coppell, Texas) and Sanket Bhoyate (Denton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hybrid electrolyte-catalyst structures including a catalyst material, a solid state electrolyte (SSE) material, and a liquid electrolyte material deposited to form coating layer(s) on carbon materials (e.g., carbon nanotubes) prevent polysulfide shuttling, improve ion flow, and enhance utilization of active materials in lithium-sulfu...