US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle on March 3 for "Facile surface coatings for performance improvement of battery material" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,586, issued on March 3, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Facile surface coatings for performance improvement of battery material" was invented by Charl J. Jafta (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Xiao-Guang Sun (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and M. Parans Paranthaman (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of activating an electrode material is provided. The method includes adding an ion-conducting salt to an organic solvent to obtain a salt solution. An electrode material is introduced to the salt solution to obtain a reaction mixture by heat treating. The reaction mixture is heat treated at a temperature in a range of 50...