US Patent Issued to CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY on Sept. 22 for "High-selectivity hydrophilic electrode for extracting lithium and preparation method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,250, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY (Changsha, China).

"High-selectivity hydrophilic electrode for extracting lithium and preparation method thereof" was invented by Zhongwei Zhao (Changsha, China), Lihua He (Changsha, China) and Wenhua Xu (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a high-selectivity hydrophilic electrode for electrochemically extracting lithium and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method includes the step of carrying out surface coating modification on an electrode active material by using polydopamine. The interception of impurity io...