US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on May 13 for "Inorganic approach to rendering metal-organic frameworks electrically conductive" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,216, issued on May 13, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Inorganic approach to rendering metal-organic frameworks electrically conductive" was invented by Chung-Wei Kung (Evanston, Ill.), Timothy Chiaan Wang (Pleasonton, Calif.) and Joseph T. Hupp (Northfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrically conductive, metal-organic framework (MOF) materials, methods of making the materials, and chemical sensors incorporating the materials are provided. The electrically conductive MOF materials are formed from mesoporous MOF crystals having continuous strands of electrically conductive inorganic oxides withi...