US Patent Issued to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY on March 17 for "Conformal pickering emulsion graphene coatings for electrode materials and forming methods applications of same" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,183, issued on March 17, was assigned to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.).

"Conformal pickering emulsion graphene coatings for electrode materials and forming methods applications of same" was invented by Mark C. Hersam (Wilmette, Ill.) and Kyu-Young Park (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fabricating a composite material includes forming an emulsion mixture of active material particles and graphene emulsion droplets containing immiscible first and second solvents and a solid-state emulsifier of graphene, wherein the first and second solvents are adapted such that the second solvent resides in an int...