US Patent Issued to GAZNAT on June 16 for "Fe-N-C catalyst, method of preparation and uses thereof" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,526, issued on June 16, was assigned to GAZNAT SA (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Fe-N-C catalyst, method of preparation and uses thereof" was invented by Xile Hu (Saint-Prex, Switzerland) and Jun Gu (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to single-atom Fe catalysts useful for the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide, method of preparation as uses thereof. In particular, the invention relates to a method of preparation of Fe(II) doped Zn-ZIF precursor material and use thereof in the preparation of a catalyst containing Fe single atoms on N doped carbon matrix derived from the pyrolysis of this Fe...