US Patent Issued to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Oct. 21 for "Crosslinking of aromatic polymers for anion exchange membranes" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,508, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.).

"Crosslinking of aromatic polymers for anion exchange membranes" was invented by Chulsung Bae (Cohoes, N.Y.), Jong Yeob Jeon (Troy, N.Y.), Junyoung Han (Troy, N.Y.) and Sangtaik Noh (Troy, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion exchange membrane material is composed of a crosslinked polymer network including a first poly(styrene-b-ethylene-r-butylene-b-styrene) triblock copolymer (SEBS), and second SEBS, and a linker crosslinking the first SEBS and the second SEBS. At least one phenyl group from the first SEBS and the second SEBS is functionali...