US Patent Issued on June 3 for "Multiwalled carbon nanotube and a photocatalysis process for producing hydrogen and carbon nanostructures" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,580, issued on June 3.

"Multiwalled carbon nanotube and a photocatalysis process for producing hydrogen and carbon nanostructures" was invented by Abdelaziz Medhat Abdelaziz Ahmed Gouda (North York, Canada), Camilo Viasus Perez (Montreal), Mohini Mohan Sain (Toronto) and Geoffrey Alan Stuart Ozin (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiwalled carbon nanotube includes at least 2 carbon nanotube walls. The multiwalled carbon nanotube have an outer surface and at least a portion of an oxygen functional group is attached to the outer surface thereof. Up to 5 atomic percent of the multiwalled carbon nanotube surface is an oxygen fun...