US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Aug. 11 for "Lithium-mediated electrochemical ammonia synthesis" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,921, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Lithium-mediated electrochemical ammonia synthesis" was invented by Dilip Krishnamurthy (Pittsburgh), Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan (Pittsburgh), Nikifar Lazouski (Cambridge, Mass.) and Karthish Manthiram (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the present disclosure pertains to methods for the electrochemical production of NH3 from nitrogen gas and a hydrogen-containing molecule in an electrochemical cell that comprises a cathode, an anode and a lithium-ion-containi...