US Patent Issued to Monash University on June 10 for "Reduced graphene oxide" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,636, issued on June 10, was assigned to Monash University (Australia).

"Reduced graphene oxide" was invented by Meysam Sharifzadeh (Clayton, Australia), Mainak Majumder (Clayton, Australia), Parama Chakraborty Banerjee (Clayton, Australia), Mahdokht Shaibani (Clayton, Australia) and Dilusha Cooray (Clayton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reducing graphene oxide (GO), the method comprising the steps of: suspending GO and dissolving an iodide in a liquid medium, whereby the dissolved iodide partially reduces the GO to obtain a liquid composition comprising partially reduced GO (prGO) and dissolved iodide, removing...