US Patent Issued to TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN on Aug. 11 for "Single-atom catalyst for use in a water splitting process and a method for preparing the same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,922, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN (Berlin).

"Single-atom catalyst for use in a water splitting process and a method for preparing the same" was invented by Shuang Li (Berlin) and Arne Thomas (Dallgow-Doberitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-atom catalyst for use in a water splitting process includes at least one support material and at least one metal catalyst deposited on the surface of the at least one support material. The at least one support material is made of tungsten carbide obtained from a tungstate-metal-aryl compound precursor, and the at least one metal catalyst is sele...