US Patent Issued to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY on May 13 for "Eight-arm star-shaped thermoplastic elastomer copolymer and preparation method therefor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,324, issued on May 13, was assigned to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (Suzhou, China).

"Eight-arm star-shaped thermoplastic elastomer copolymer and preparation method therefor" was invented by Jinlin He (Suzhou, China), Bin Wang (Suzhou, China) and Peihong Ni (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eight-arm star-shaped thermoplastic elastomer copolymer and a preparation method therefor; a polystyrene-polyisoprene lithium compound and a polystyrene/diphenylethylene-polyisoprene lithium compound are synthesized by using active anionic polymerization, and the compounds are used for a coupling reaction with octenyl polyhedral oligomeric si...