US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on Dec. 16 for "3D-triptycene based microporous polymer as electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,704, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"3D-triptycene based microporous polymer as electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction" was invented by Abuzar Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mosim Ansari (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohd Yusuf Khan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrocatalyst includes a substrate and a microporous polymer on the substrate. The microporous polymer includes, in polymerized form, a triptycene of Formula (I) and a phenothiazine of Formula (II) where in Formula (I), R1-14 each individually represent hydrogen, an ...