US Patent Issued to UOP on Feb. 17 for "Sandwich-structured thin film composite anion exchange membrane for redox flow battery applications" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,879, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.).

"Sandwich-structured thin film composite anion exchange membrane for redox flow battery applications" was invented by Chunqing Liu (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Chaoyi Ba (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Xueliang Dong (Schaumburg, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low cost, sandwich-structured thin film composite (TFC) anion exchange membrane for redox flow batteries, fuel cells, electrolysis, and other electrochemical reaction applications is described. The sandwich-structured TFC anion exchange membrane comprises a microporous substrate membrane, a first hydrophilic ionome...