US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Dec. 30 for "Method of fabricating metal-nitride vertically aligned nanocomposites" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,797, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Method of fabricating metal-nitride vertically aligned nanocomposites" was invented by Haiyan Wang (West Lafayette, Ind.), Xuejing Wang (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Xinghang Zhang (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of the fabricating a metal-nitride vertically aligned nanocomposites is disclosed which includes applying a pulsed laser onto a composite target, the composite target including a two-phase metal-nitride plasmonic nanostructure, depositing adatoms of the composite target onto a substrate, and nucleating metal...