US Patent Issued to Applied Thin Films on Sept. 9 for "Transport of liquids and solute materials in nanochannels" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,453, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Applied Thin Films Inc. (Skokie, Ill.).

"Transport of liquids and solute materials in nanochannels" was invented by Sankar Sambasivan (Chicago), Francis Richard Chapman (Mount Prospect, Ill.), Jeffrey W. Donelan (Highland Park, Ill.) and Christopher J. Garcia (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transport of a vaporizable liquid containing at least one solute through a material containing nanochannels is performed by contacting material with at least one vaporizable liquid component and inducing liquid transport along nanochannel interior wall surfaces, wherein the material contains nanocha...