US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION on Aug. 26 for "Methods of fabrication of engineered carbon nanofiber/Cu electrode architectures for dendrite-free high efficiency Li metal batteries" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,022, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh).

"Methods of fabrication of engineered carbon nanofiber/Cu electrode architectures for dendrite-free high efficiency Li metal batteries" was invented by Prashant N. Kumta (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inventive concepts include at least an electrode architecture including a composite structure that includes engineered carbon nanofibers, a lithium-impervious elastic polymer, a copper collector and a lithium-containing cathode; dendrite-free, lithium metal-plated anode that includes the electrode...