US Patent Issued to Politecnico di Milano on Feb. 17 for "Environmentally friendly zinc/aqueous polysulfide rechargeable flow battery with high energy efficiency" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,813, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Politecnico di Milano.

"Environmentally friendly zinc/aqueous polysulfide rechargeable flow battery with high energy efficiency" was invented by Alessandra Accogli (Diso, Italy), Matteo Salerno (Saronno, Italy), Gabriele Panzeri (Cornate d'Adda, Italy), Luca Bertoli (Brescia, Italy), Eugenio Gibertini (Cusago, Italy) and Luca Magagnin (Rho, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a zinc/aqueous polysulfide rechargeable flow battery (100) made of a first half-cell (110) comprising a first electrolyte (114) containing a source of Zn2+ ions and a static (112) or flowa...