ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,786, issued on March 24, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Core-shell particle and lithium ion battery" was invented by Kuan-Yu Ko (Zhudong Township, Taiwan), Chun-Chi Tseng (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chia-Erh Liu (Zhubei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A core-shell particle includes a core having a chemical structure of Ti(1-x)M1xNb(2-y)M2yO(7-z)Qz, in which M1 is Li or Mg; M2 is Fe, Mn, V, Ni, Cr, or Cu; Q is F, Cl, Br, I, or S; x is 0 to 0.15; y is 0 to 0.15; and z is 0 to 2; and a shell layer wrapping at least a portion of the surface of the core, and the shell layer incl...