ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,132, issued on June 24, was assigned to SHENZHEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY (Shenzhen, China).
"Method for preparing amorphous hierarchically porous UiO-66" was invented by Xiaolin Li (Shenzhen, China), Shilin Li (Shenzhen, China), Wei Chen (Shenzhen, China), Liang Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Tao Gong (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing an amorphous hierarchically porous UiO-66 is provided. Ammonium fluoride is added to promote dissolution of terephthalic acid (TPA) in water, and then zirconium nitrate is dissolved in water. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) shows high hydrophilicity, and ethoxy repeating unit ...