ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,055, issued on April 22, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Two-dimensional coordination polymers" was invented by Matthew Green (Phoenix), Sefaattin Tongay (Tempe, Ariz.), Meng Wang (Tempe, Ariz.) and Ying Qin (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Octaaminonaphthalene and a method of synthesizing octaaminonaphthalene are described. A two-dimensional coordination polymer and a method of synthesizing the two-dimensional coordination polymer are described. The two-dimensional coordination polymer includes ligands including anchorage sites, and metal linkers, each m...