US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on May 13 for "Vapor phase infiltration as a tool to affix molecules to polymer surfaces" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,592, issued on May 13, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Vapor phase infiltration as a tool to affix molecules to polymer surfaces" was invented by Emily K. McGuinness (Atlanta), Mark D. Losego (Atlanta), Haley V. Manno (Atlanta) and Nicole R. McClelland (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method of affixing molecules to a polymer material, comprising: placing the polymer material in a reactor; removing at least a portion of sorbed water present in the polymer material; exposing the polymer material to a metal precursor to produce an inorganic-orga...