ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,143, issued on June 17, was assigned to LG CHEM Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Support-nanoparticle composite, catalyst containing same, and fabrication method therefor" was invented by Wonkyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang Hoon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Gyo Hyun Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jun Yeon Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwanghyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ran Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carrier-nanoparticle complex including: a carbon carrier; a polymer layer provided on a surface of the carbon carrier; and metal nanoparticles provided on the polymer layer, a catalyst including the same...