ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,339, issued on May 27, was assigned to ACADEMIA SINICA (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Carbon dioxide adsorbent" was invented by Jia-Hui Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Hao-Ju Chou (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Po-Wen Chung (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a modified carbonaceous material, which includes hexagonal carbon networks in a layered stacking structure and acidic functional groups bonded to the hexagonal carbon networks and mainly existing at edges of the layered carbonaceous structure. Accordingly, the close proximity of acid moiety at the edges can resemble the center of hydrolysis enzymes, resulting in enhancement of ...