US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Feb. 4 for "Molecularly-mixed composite membranes and methods for making the same" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,318, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Molecularly-mixed composite membranes and methods for making the same" was invented by Guanghui Zhu (Atlanta) and Ryan P. Lively (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a molecularly-mixed composite membrane comprising an amorphous scrambled porous organic compound (ASPOC) material and a polymer. With current developments in membrane technologies, there exists a need for largely scalable membranes and improved performance with difficult molecular separations. Mixed Matrix Membranes improve separation performance to a degree, but also inc...