US Patent Issued to William Marsh Rice University on Dec. 16 for "Energy-storage devices having electrodes containing carbon nanotubes and methods of making same" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,240, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to William Marsh Rice University (Houston).

"Energy-storage devices having electrodes containing carbon nanotubes and methods of making same" was invented by James M Tour (Houston), Abdul-Rahman O Raji (Houston) and Rodrigo V Salvatierra (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Energy-storage devices in which the energy storage device has an electrode that includes graphitic carbon, carbon nanotubes, and a metallic-lithium layer between the carbon nanotubes and the energy-storage device further has an electrolyte that is in contact with the metallic lithium layer. The methods of manufacturing the e...