MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202311087072 A) filed by Shoolini University Of Biotechnology And Management Sciences, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, on Dec. 20, 2023, for 'a biochar-based photocatalyst and method of preparing the same.'

Inventor(s) include Pankaj Raizada; Vatika Soni; and Pardeep Singh.

The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention discloses the synthesis of an S-scheme heterojunction Bi5O7I-PCN-TWB-based photocatalyst for the complete degradation of organic pollutants specifically and effective photodegradation of methylene blue and doxycycli...