US Patent Issued to University of South Florida on May 20 for "High specific capacitance solid state supercapacitor and method of manufacture" (Maryland, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,166, issued on May 20, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"High specific capacitance solid state supercapacitor and method of manufacture" was invented by Turki Sulaiman A. Alamro (Germantown, Md.) and Manoj Kumar Ram (Palm Harbor, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel electrode and associated method of manufacturing said novel electrode comprising a porous structure having absorbed polystyrene sulfonate (PSS), a self-assembled polypyrole (PPy) layer adjacent to the PSS absorbed porous structure, a self-assembled polyaniline (PANI) layer adjacent to the PPy layer, an electrochemically deposited PANI laye...