US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Jan. 13 for "Methods for treating metal nanocrystals and for forming bulk nanostructured metal alloys" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,928, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Methods for treating metal nanocrystals and for forming bulk nanostructured metal alloys" was invented by Luke Clyde Oak Prestowitz (Evanston, Ill.), Jiaxing Huang (Wilmette, Ill.) and David C. Dunand (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of treating metal nanocrystals are provided. In embodiments, such a method comprises exposing metal nanocrystals comprising a metal and characterized by at least one twinning boundary therein, to a plating solution comprising a reducing agent and coating metal cations comprising a different metal, und...