US Patent Issued to RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE on Aug. 12 for "Method of making colloidal suspensions of metal organic frameworks in polymeric solutions and uses thereof" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,883, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

"Method of making colloidal suspensions of metal organic frameworks in polymeric solutions and uses thereof" was invented by Ignacio Luz Minguez (Durham, N.C.), Mustapha Soukri (Cary, N.C.), Marty Lail (Raleigh, N.C.) and Lora Goon Toy (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suspension comprises a nano-crystalline metal organic framework suspended in a polymeric solution. The nano-crystalline metal organic framework comprises micropores having an average diameter in the range of 0.5-5 nm, and the nano-crystalline metal orga...