US Patent Issued to University of Wyoming on Feb. 25 for "Apparatus and methods for fabrication of carbon foams and silicon-carbon composite anodes" (Wyoming Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,498, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyo.).

"Apparatus and methods for fabrication of carbon foams and silicon-carbon composite anodes" was invented by Erica Belmont (Laramie, Wyo.) and Kurt Stahlfeld (Laramie, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally relates to a method for fabrication of carbon foam and materials derived from the pyrolization of biomass at supercritical and subcritical conditions for CO2 and N2. The method includes exposing biomass to CO2 and N2 under various parameters for temperature, pressure, heating rate and fluid flow rate. Silicon-carbon composite anodes...