US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on May 27 for "Materials comprising carbon-embedded cobalt nanoparticles, processes for their manufacture, and use as heterogeneous catalysts" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,342, issued on May 27, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Materials comprising carbon-embedded cobalt nanoparticles, processes for their manufacture, and use as heterogeneous catalysts" was invented by Arne Reinsdorf (Darmstadt, Germany), Dorit Wolf (Oberursel, Germany), Renat Kadyrov (Frankfurt, Germany) and Sarah Chamski (Freigericht, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to catalytically active material, comprising grains of non-graphitizing carbon with cobalt nanoparticles dispersed therein, wherein dp, the average diameter of cobalt nanoparticles in the non-graphitizing carbo...