US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on Dec. 2 for "Method of photocatalytic degradation of a pollutant using nanocomposite" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,181, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of photocatalytic degradation of a pollutant using nanocomposite" was invented by Mohamed Khairy Abdel Fattah Omran (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Babiker Yagoub Elhadi Abdulkhair (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of photocatalytic degradation of a polluted solution includes contacting a solution containing one or more pollutants with a graphite-phase carbon nitride, calcium metavanadate, and calcium silicate (CaV2O6/CaSiO3/g-C3N4) nanocomposite, followed by irradiating the nanocomposite with light t...