US Patent Issued to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Jan. 13 for "Polymer nanocomposites and methods of making the same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,713, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia).

"Polymer nanocomposites and methods of making the same" was invented by Shenqiang Ren (Haverford, Pa.), Simona Percec (Philadelphia) and Zhuolei Zhang (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a polymer composite material by mixing a polymer material with a planar material, depositing the mixture on a substrate, and stretching the resulting thin film, is described. Polymer composite materials produced using said method and ballistic resistant materials comprising said polymer composite ma...