US Patent Issued to SK INNOVATION on March 24 for "Noble metal nanocluster catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction and water splitting system using the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,977, issued on March 24, was assigned to SK INNOVATION Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Noble metal nanocluster catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction and water splitting system using the same" was invented by Hyun Su Han (Daejeon, South Korea), Ju Hwan Im (Daejeon, South Korea), Hee Soo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Tae Hong Seok (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seung Ok Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an electrochemical catalyst capable of lowering the overpotential of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) during a water splitting reaction even with a very small amount of noble metal in the complicated...