US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army on April 14 for "Acidic surface treatment for multivalent battery metal anode" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,329, issued on April 14, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Acidic surface treatment for multivalent battery metal anode" was invented by Lin Ma (Silver Spring, Md.), Marshall A. Schroeder (Pasadena, Md.), Oleg A. Borodin (Laurel, Md.), Travis P. Pollard (Rockville, Md.) and Kang Xu (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve the performance of certain multivalent metal electrodes, the electrodes can be treated prior to use in an electrochemical cell by applying a solution comprising an acid to a surface of a multivalent metal electrode, then removing e...