US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on April 22 for "Nanocomposites and related methods" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,017, issued on April 22, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Nanocomposites and related methods" was invented by Vikas Nandwana (Evanston, Ill.) and Vinayak P. Dravid (Glenview, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of forming a nanocomposite of a base material and a plurality of nanoparticles are provided. In embodiments, the method comprises combining a first input stream of flowing fluid comprising a base material having nucleation sites, a second input stream of flowing fluid comprising a nanoparticle precursor material, and a third input stream of flowing fluid comprising a nanoparticle nucleation age...