US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Dec. 30 for "Porous materials for enhanced ionization efficiency" (Washington, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,310, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Porous materials for enhanced ionization efficiency" was invented by Kelly McHugh (Richland, Wash.), Michael Sinnwell (Iowa City, Iowa) and Dushyant Barpaga (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nanoporous ion emitters (nano-PIEs) materials promote ionization efficiency of an analyte during thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS). The nano-PIE is a hierarchical material or a modified hierarchical material. The nano-PIE may comprise a coordination polymer (CP), a modified CP, or any combination thereof. Ionization efficiency is promot...