US Patent Issued to DAICEL on Jan. 27 for "Surface-modified nanodiamond and method for producing surface-modified nanodiamond" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,374, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Surface-modified nanodiamond and method for producing surface-modified nanodiamond" was invented by Daisuke Shiro (Tokyo) and Atsushi Kume (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are: a polyglycerin-chain surface-modified nanodiamond having excellent dispersibility in a low-polarity solvent; and a method of producing the polyglycerin-chain surface-modified nanodiamond. A surface-modified nanodiamond 1 includes a nanodiamond particle 2 and a surface-modifying group 3 that surface-modifies the nanodiamond particle 2, the surface-modifying group 3 having a poly...