MUMBAI, India, Feb. 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641007159 A) filed by Bapatla Surendra Babu, Tenali, Andhra Pradesh, on Jan. 24, for 'stress-responsive auxetic separator scaffold for dendrite suppression in alkali-metal batteries.'

Inventor(s) include Bapatla Surendra Babu.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 6, under issue no. 06/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A passive safety separator for alkali-metal batteries is disclosed. The separator comprises a Polymer Scaffold (100) with a Re-entrant Honeycomb Microstructure (102) possessing a negative Poisson's ratio between -0.1 and -0.8. Unlike conventional separators that thin under s...