US Patent Issued to National University of Singapore on July 22 for "Monolithic and fractal carbon foams and methods of preparing and using same" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,590, issued on July 22, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore).

"Monolithic and fractal carbon foams and methods of preparing and using same" was invented by Barbaros Oezyilmaz (Singapore), Jonghak Lee (Singapore), Clarissa Chui Ling Wong (Singapore), Cagdas Cetin (Singapore), Xiao Feng Lim (Singapore) and Yong Kang Ong (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monolithic carbon foam formed of fused onion-like carbon (OLC) nanoparticles, in which the monolithic carbon foam contains interconnected pores, has a volumetric micropore surface area of 200 m2/cc-600 m2/cc, and has an electrical conductivity of 20 cm-...