US Patent Issued to SILA NANOTECHNOLOGIES, Georgia Tech Research on March 17 for "Nanocomposite membrane, electrolyte-separator composite for a battery, and method of making a nanocomposite membrane" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,272, issued on March 17, was assigned to SILA NANOTECHNOLOGIES INC. (Alameda, Calif.) and Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Nanocomposite membrane, electrolyte-separator composite for a battery, and method of making a nanocomposite membrane" was invented by Gleb Yushin (Atlanta), Wenqiang Hu (Atlanta), Wenbin Fu (Atlanta), Samik Jhulki (Atlanta) and Liang Chen (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanocomposite membrane includes a polymer phase, a nanowire phase, and a pore phase. The polymer phase includes a polymer including a cyclic imide group. The nanowire phase includes metal oxide nanowires. Each of the polymer phas...