US Patent Issued to Wayne State University on Jan. 13 for "Stabilizing garnet-type solid-state electrolytes through atomic layer deposition of ultra-thin layered materials and methods of making same" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,639, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Wayne State University (Detroit).

"Stabilizing garnet-type solid-state electrolytes through atomic layer deposition of ultra-thin layered materials and methods of making same" was invented by Leela Mohana Reddy Arava (Troy, Mich.), Sathish Rajendran (Detroit), Jeffry Kelber (Plano, Texas) and Aparna Pilli (Josephine, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of stabilizing a garnet-type solid-state electrolyte (SSE) includes obtaining pellets of SSE, removing surface impurities of the SSE, and depositing a passivation layer onto the SSE after the surface impurities are removed, the passivat...