US Patent Issued to UOP on Feb. 17 for "Method for catalyst recovery from catalyst-coated membranes" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,107, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.).

"Method for catalyst recovery from catalyst-coated membranes" was invented by Chunqing Liu (Arlington Heights, Ill.) and Zhihao Shang (Mount Prospect, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recycling anode and/or cathode catalyst from the catalyst coated membranes comprising proton exchange membrane, a continuous nonporous cross-linked polyelectrolyte multilayer coating comprising alternating layers of a polycation polymer and a polyanion polymer, an anode coating layer comprising anode catalyst particles, a cathode coating layer comprising cathode catalys...