US Patent Issued to SICONA BATTERY TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 6 for "Silicon carbon composite materials and method for making same" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,964, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SICONA BATTERY TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD (Australia).

"Silicon carbon composite materials and method for making same" was invented by Geoffrey Edwards (Reedy Creek, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates generally to a method for making a silicon-carbon composite comprising nanoscale silicon and carbon, the method comprising the steps of preparing a dispersion of silicon nanoparticles and the selected form/s of carbon; spray drying the dispersion to form essentially spherical silicon nanoparticles; heat treating the silicon nanoparticles to pyrolyse and/or burn off any polymers...