US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Greensboro on Feb. 24 for "Compositions and methods for enhancing electrocatalytic efficiencies" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,846, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Compositions and methods for enhancing electrocatalytic efficiencies" was invented by Jianjun Wei (Oak Ridge, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of enhancing efficiency of an oxygen evolution reaction (OER), oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), or hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) comprises increasing total number electron pathway and/or reaction kinetics of the OER, ORR, or HER by coating one or more surfaces of an electrode participating in the OER, ORR, or HER with one or more metal oxides."

The patent was filed on Au...