BioSolar, Inc has announced that it has jointly filed a patent application with the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). This invention forms the basis for the company's super battery technology.

The inventors of the jointly owned patent application include Dr. Alan Heeger and Dr. David Vonlanthen of UCSB, and Dr. David Lee, the Company's chief executive officer and Dr. Stanley Levy, the Company's chief technology officer.

A battery contains two major parts, a cathode and an anode, that function together as the positive and negative sides. Today's state-of-the-art lithium-ion battery is limited by the storage capacity of its cathode, while the anode can store much more. BioSolar is developing a novel high capacity cathode that can fully utilize the storage capacity of conventional anodes. By integrating the BioSolar high capacity, high power and low-cost cathode with conventional anodes, battery manufacturers can create a super lithium-ion battery.