US Patent Issued to UCHICAGO ARGONNE, BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY on Aug. 4 for "Method of preparing electrocatalysts for converting carbon dioxide to chemicals" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,606, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to UCHICAGO ARGONNE LLC (Chicago) and BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY (DeKalb, Ill.).

"Method of preparing electrocatalysts for converting carbon dioxide to chemicals" was invented by Di-Jia Liu (Elmhurst, Ill.), Tao Xu (Naperville, Ill.) and Jianxin Wang (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrocatalysts composed of single atoms or metal clusters dispersed over porous carbon support were prepared by a lithium-melt method. The new catalysts demonstrated high selectivity, high Faradic efficiency and low overpotential toward to the electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide t...