US Patent Issued to Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel on Sept. 15 for "Method for producing a cyclically stable silicon anode for secondary batteries, and silicon anode for secondary batteries" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,476, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel (Kiel, Germany).

"Method for producing a cyclically stable silicon anode for secondary batteries, and silicon anode for secondary batteries" was invented by Rainer Adelung (Kiel, Germany), Sandra Hansen (Osterroenfeld, Germany), Joerg Bahr (Altenholz-Klausdorf, Germany) and Juergen Carstensen (Kiel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a silicon anode for secondary batteries. Mesoporous silicon is used for the anode to provide space for volume expansion in the course of intercalation, especially of lithium ions. However, instea...