US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University on Sept. 1 for "Doped sodium anode, battery having a doped sodium anode, and methods of use thereof" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,792, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University (Dekalb, Ill.).

"Doped sodium anode, battery having a doped sodium anode, and methods of use thereof" was invented by Yingwen Cheng (Sycamore, Ill.) and Tao Xu (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anode of a battery comprises sodium metal, and a dopant, in the sodium metal. The anode has a thickness of at most 80 micro metre, and the dopant is a metal with an electronegativity greater than sodium. A battery includes an anode, an anode charge collecting element in contact with the anode, a cathode, a cathode charge collecting eleme...