US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on Sept. 9 for "Method for synthesizing intermetallic alloy nanoparticles" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,494, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Method for synthesizing intermetallic alloy nanoparticles" was invented by Hua Zhang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Biao Huang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Yiyao Ge (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A general and well-controlled method for synthesizing intermetallic nanoparticles is provided. The method comprises: preparing noble-metal nanoparticle seeds; dispersing a metal precursor into the noble-metal nanoparticle seeds to form a first solution; adding the first solution into an organic solvent to form a first mixture; sonicati...