US Patent Issued to Morgan State University on Oct. 28 for "Silver nanoparticle surface enabled self- assembly of organic dye molecules" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,217, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Morgan State University (Baltimore).

"Silver nanoparticle surface enabled self- assembly of organic dye molecules" was invented by Hua Deng (Baltimore) and Hongtao Yu (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fluorescence titration of methylene blue, rhodamine B and rhodamine 6G (R6G) by silver nanoparticle (AgNP) all resulted in an initial steep quenching curve followed with a sharp turn and a much flatter quenching curve. At the turn, there are about 200,000 dye molecules per a single AgNP, signifying self-assembly of approximately 36 layers of dye molecules on the surface of the AgNP to form...