US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY on Feb. 24 for "Safe and flexible chitosan-based gel electrolyte in rechargeable zinc electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD) alkaline batteries" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,398, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY (Baltimore).

"Safe and flexible chitosan-based gel electrolyte in rechargeable zinc electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD) alkaline batteries" was invented by Deepa Madan (Baltimore) and Aswani Poosapati (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Zinc electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD) batteries including a high performing flexible chitosan-based gel electrolyte with poly-vinyl alcohol (PVA) and potassium hydroxide (KOH) additives were prepared. The Zn-EMD batteries were constructed using an optimized assembly technique employed to achieve good interfacia...