US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on Sept. 23 for "g-C 3 N 4 @CoO/MgAl 2 O 4 nanocomposite for hydrogen generation" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,267, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"g-C 3 N 4 @CoO/MgAl 2 O 4 nanocomposite for hydrogen generation" was invented by Mohamed Nady Abd El-Hameed Ibrahim (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed Khairy 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 for hydrogen (H2) generation includes contacting a graphite-phase carbon nitride cobalt oxide and magnesium aluminum oxide nanocomposite (g-C3N4@CoO/MgAl2O4) with sodium borohydride (NaBH4) in water (H2O) and hydrolyzing the sodium borohydride to ge...