US Patent Issued to Xiamen University on Feb. 18 for "Supporter of lithium metal and methods thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,792, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Xiamen University (Fujian, China).

"Supporter of lithium metal and methods thereof" was invented by BingWei Mao (Fujian, China), Yu Gu (Fujian, China), Hongyu Xu (Fujian, China), Weiwei Wang (Fujian, China) and Jiawei Yan (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supporter of lithium metal, a material of the supporter of lithium metal is at least one of copper, an alloy of the copper, nickel, or an alloy of the nickel, and a surface of the supporter of lithium metal comprises a lithiophilic surface."

The patent was filed on June 7, 2021, under Application No. 17/340,478.

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