US Patent Issued to Energizer Brands on Oct. 20 for "Sodium nickelate cathode material synthesis utilizing persulfate desodiation and oxidation and uses thereof" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,873, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Energizer Brands LLC (St. Louis).

"Sodium nickelate cathode material synthesis utilizing persulfate desodiation and oxidation and uses thereof" was invented by Guanghong Zheng (Westlake, Ohio), Stephen Dukuslow (Parma, Ohio) and Devin Kelly (Westlake, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of preparing desodiated and oxidized sodium nickelate materials using persulfate solution, and sodium nickelate materials prepared by such methods, are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of preparing pre-aged beta nickelates using a hydroxide solution, and beta nickelates prepared by such methods. An ...