US Patent Issued to Research Triangle Institute on March 24 for "Nanostructured silicon carbonaceous composite material and methods for producing the same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,754, issued on March 24, was assigned to Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

"Nanostructured silicon carbonaceous composite material and methods for producing the same" was invented by Ignacio Luz Minguez (Durham, N.C.), Mustapha Soukri (Cary, N.C.) and David Dausch (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anode material for a lithium ion battery comprises a carbonaceous silicon composite material. The composite material comprises Si nanoparticles, and nanostructured and microporous graphitic carbon and/or silicon carbide, wherein the graphitic carbon and/or silicon carbide are derived ...