ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,221, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (Suzhou, China).

"Porous crosslinked material, preparation and application thereof" was invented by Jianmei Lu (Suzhou, China) and Qingfeng Xu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A TPC-OTBS n-hexane solution is added to a mixture of TPC-OSO2F, DMF, and DBU and allowed to stand to produce a crosslinked solvent gel; the crosslinked solvent gel is added to methanol, stirred, and dried to produce the porous crosslinked material. The gel acquired can be prepared into a pore-rich solid porous organic polymer material by means of solvent exchange. SEM and TEM are used to cha...