US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on Nov. 25 for "Water decontamination via C 3 N 4 @MoO 3 /MgAl 2 O 4 nanocomposite" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,741, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Water decontamination via C 3 N 4 @MoO 3 /MgAl 2 O 4 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 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, MoO3, and MgAl2O4 in a mass relationship to each other in a range of from 5 to 15:2 to 7:75 to 95, thereby adsorbi...