US Patent Issued to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York on Dec. 30 for "Alkaline fuel cell electrode catalyst, alkaline fuel cell, and methods of making and using an electrode catalyst" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,484, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Albany, N.Y.).

"Alkaline fuel cell electrode catalyst, alkaline fuel cell, and methods of making and using an electrode catalyst" was invented by Jiye Fang (Vestal, N.Y.) and Ming Zhou (Binghamton, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell catalyst, including: one or more substantially monodisperse nanocrystals, wherein the one or more substantially monodisperse nanocrystals include an octahedral morphology or nanocrystal geometry including eight exclusively exposed {101} facets. In embodiments, a cathode including the fuel cel...