US Patent Issued to INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY ERICA CAMPUS on Feb. 11 for "Method for preparing gold nanorods using reducing agent mixture and reducing agent mixture for same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,746, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY ERICA CAMPUS (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method for preparing gold nanorods using reducing agent mixture and reducing agent mixture for same" was invented by Seunghyun Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sunghoon Yoo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for preparing gold nanorods using a reducing agent mixture, which includes: a step of preparing a seed solution containing the seed particles of gold nanoparticles; and a step of growing the seeds of the gold nanoparticles into nanorods by addi...