Patent ID: 11971383
Assignee: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  C  H  B | IPC B  C  G  H

Claim 23:
24. The method of claim 22 wherein the removing at least some of the exposed solid-state particles comprises at least one of:
a. dislodging by thermal treatment or annealing by laser,
b. etching by the laser,
c. oven heating,
d. photonic treatment,
e. heating/annealing,
f. chemical etching methods with solutions of low concentrations of acids/solvents, or
g. dry etching to sufficiently degrade a superficial layer of the reduced electroactive material to release embedded porogens but not sufficiently strong to degrade underlying reduced electroactive material.