US Patent Issued to Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology on Feb. 3 for "Electrically conductive hydrogel having graphene network and fabrication method therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,226, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Electrically conductive hydrogel having graphene network and fabrication method therefor" was invented by Jae Young Lee (Gwangju, South Korea) and Jung Geon Park (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an electrically conductive hydrogel having a graphene network and a method for fabricating the same. The electrically conductive hydrogel is fabricated by thermal annealing of granular hydrogel, and thus it has a porous structure, excellent electrical conductivity, and improved compressive modulus and yi...