US Patent Issued to N.E. CHEMCAT on July 7 for "Catalyst for electrode, composition for forming gas diffusion electrode, gas diffusion electrode, membrane-electrode junction, and fuel cell stack" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,319, issued on July 7, was assigned to N.E. CHEMCAT Corp. (Tokyo).

"Catalyst for electrode, composition for forming gas diffusion electrode, gas diffusion electrode, membrane-electrode junction, and fuel cell stack" was invented by Yoshiyuki Wada (Tokyo), Tomoteru Mizusaki (Tokyo), Kiyotaka Nagamori (Tokyo), Satoshi Aoki (Tokyo), Makoto Nishibetto (Tokyo) and Yasuhiro Seki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a catalyst for electrode that has excellent catalytic activity and that is capable of contributing toward lower PEFC costs. This catalyst for electrode includes: a hollow carbon support having nanopores with a pore d...