ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,190, issued on July 22, was assigned to William Marsh Rice University (Houston).
"Systems and methods of detecting Li dendrites" was invented by James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas), Tuo Wang (Houston) and Rodrigo Villegas Salvatierra (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that utilize a separator coated by particles for Li dendrite detection in an ordinary two-electrode battery system. The particles can be red phosphorus (RP) particles and/or other particles that are poor electronic conductors, are able to react with Li, and will form an insoluble product with Li, such as silicon, germanium, arsenic, metal oxides, me...