US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA on Oct. 14 for "Electrode, method for producing same, water electrolyzer, and fuel cell" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,093, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA (Tsukuba, Japan).

"Electrode, method for producing same, water electrolyzer, and fuel cell" was invented by Yoshikazu Ito (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode 10 includes, as a catalyst, an alloy including three or more base metal elements, in which the three or more base metal elements are nearly equal in atomic composition proportion, and form a solid solution. Also, an electrode 12 includes: a carbon fiber; and a catalyst including a base metal, at least a part of elements of the catalyst being chemically bonded to the carbon fiber. Further, the w...