US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY on Sept. 8 for "Oxidized bacterial cellulose separator for batteries and method for producing the same" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,858, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Oxidized bacterial cellulose separator for batteries and method for producing the same" was invented by Zhaoyang Fan (Chandler, Ariz.), Wenyue Li (Chandler, Ariz.) and Shu Wang (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for a lithium-based battery, and method for fabricating the same is disclosed. The method includes oxidizing cellulose fibrils to form oxidized cellulose having carboxylic functional groups, decorating the oxidized cellulose with nanoparticles, and forming the nanoparticle-decor...