US Patent Issued to SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY on May 19 for "Process for converting avocado peel into hard carbon powder useful for battery anodes" (New York, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,515, issued on May 19, was assigned to SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (Syracuse, N.Y.).

"Process for converting avocado peel into hard carbon powder useful for battery anodes" was invented by Ian D. Hosein (Minoa, N.Y.), Francielli Genier (Syracuse, N.Y.) and Shreyas Pathreeker (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for converting avocado peels into hard carbon-based anodes for sodium ion batteries and a hard carbon material formed according to that process. The avocado peels are simply washed and dried, and then carbonized using a high temperature conversion step. Electrochemical measurements confirmed the applicability of avoca...