US Patent Issued to Technion Research & Development Foundation on Nov. 25 for "Two-dimensional lead-free double perovskite and uses thereof" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,739, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Two-dimensional lead-free double perovskite and uses thereof" was invented by Shai Levy (Haifa, Israel), Sasha Khalfin (Haifa, Israel) and Yehonadav Bekenstein (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a two-dimensional double perovskite nanomaterial represented by the formula Cs2ABX6 or L4[Cs2ABX6]n-1ABX8, wherein A is a metal ion selected from Ag(I), Au(I), and Cu(I); B is a metal ion selected from In(III), Bi(III), Sb(III), Fe(III), and Tl(III); X is a halogen; L is a ligand; and n represents...