US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on July 8 for "Nanocomposite for water decontamination" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,485, issued on July 8, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Nanocomposite for water decontamination" 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 removing a contaminant from water may include contacting contaminated water, including a heavy metal and/or an organic pollutant, with a nanocomposite including graphitic C3N4, MnO2, and MgAl2O4 in a mass relationship to each other in a range of from 5 to 15:2 to 7:75 to 95, thereby adsorbing the heavy metal and/or the...