US Patent Issued to Honeycomb Battery on Nov. 3 for "Silane-free production of a battery anode active material comprising silicon nanowires residing in pores of a porous host structure" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,088, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Honeycomb Battery Co. (Dayton, Ohio).

"Silane-free production of a battery anode active material comprising silicon nanowires residing in pores of a porous host structure" was invented by Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing multiple particulates having pores containing Si nanowires (SiNWs) therein, comprising: (a) providing a porous conductive host structure having from 5% to 99.9% of pores; (b) introducing a halogen gas that chemically reacts with Si at a first temperature to form a silicon halide, wherein the silicon halide is selected from SiF4, ...