ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,038, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to FUDAN UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Method for preparing two-dimensional ordered mesoporous nanosheets by inorganic salt interface-induced assembly" was invented by Yonghui Deng (Shanghai), Liangliang Liu (Shanghai), Yidong Zou (Shanghai) and Xuanyu Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing two-dimensional (2D) ordered mesoporous nanosheets by inorganic salt interface-induced assembly includes the following steps: carrying out, by using a soluble inorganic salt as a substrate and an amphiphilic block copolymer as a template, uniform mass diffusion of a target precursor soluti...