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Patents
Smoltek uses a global patent strategy to protect our technology platform in all important markets. This includes core patents as well as patent protection at application level.
Our innovative technology platform is protected with an IP-portfolio of 110+ patents granted and pending, distributed among 21 patent families, as well as a significant body of know-how and trade secrets.
The strategic and continuous development of our patent portfolio is driven by the need for disruptive materials and technical solutions that enables industrially compatible fabrication of nanostructures for various applications, like capacitors for semiconductors and electrode cell materials for electrolyzers.
Electrode Conformal Coating
The Electrode Conformal Coating family offer a method for depositing conformally coated catalyst support for the PTL (porous transport layer) that provide both high catalytic activity and additional corrosion protection
Electrolyzer Oxide Coating
The Electrolyzer Oxide Coating family offer a chemically stable solution, coating a nanostructure with non-noble metal oxides, this avoiding the use of expensive platinum for anode porous transport electrodes (PTEs). The inventions also improve the durability and efficiency of the PTE.
Multilayer Cap
The Multilayer Cap patent family introduces a MIM-capacitor device that can double or triple the capacitance density of Smoltek's CNF-MIM capacitors. The patent details an invention for a layered energy storage device, specifically a capacitor, built using a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) configuration.
Vertical Graphene
The Vertical Graphene family offer lowered contact resistance between separator elements and adjacent components in electrochemical cells and increase resistance to corrosion.
Nano Velcro
The Nano Velcro family improves the interlayer connections in electrochemical cells by using elongated nanostructures that are mechanically entangled between the layers.
Contact Resistance
The Contact Resistance patent family is covering how to improve a separator plate arrangement for an electrochemical cell by comprising a nanostructure which offers lowered contact resistance between the separator element and the diffusion layer.
Electro Catalyst Heating
The Electro Catalyst Heating family is covering a way of arranging a temperature gradient in the electrolyzer by increasing a temperature of the catalyst structure. The innovation is targeted towards the production of green hydrogen using PEM electrolyzers.
Electro Catalyst Support
The Electro Catalyst Support family is covering an electrolyzer and a method for producing a catalyst supported on a nanostructure. The innovation is targeted towards the production of green hydrogen and discloses how carbon nanofibers can support the iridium catalyst load in a PEM-electrolyzer in a better way.
Discrete CNF-MIM
The Discrete CNF-MIM patent family is covering a method for manufacturing of discrete capacitor components based on our CNF-MIM technology. The innovation exploits the extra-ordinary surface to volume ratio provided by carbon nanofibers to create a MIM capacitor with unparalleled high capacitance density.
Compact Energy Storage Interposer
The Compact Energy Storage Interposer family is covering the invention and manufacturing of extremely thin energy storage devices embedded in an interposer.
Assembly platform
The Assembly platform family is a particular application in the field of interconnects and heterogeneous integration.
Interposer
The Interposer family is covering Smoltek's CNF-MIM capacitors technology and various use cases for the same, primarily in the field of interposers for advanced packaging and heterogenous integration of semiconductors.