US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Nov. 4 for "Compositions and methods for carbon dioxide capture" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,920, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Compositions and methods for carbon dioxide capture" was invented by Yongqi Lu (Urbana, Ill.), Yang Du (Champaign, Ill.) and Qing Ye (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aqueous solvent composition is provided, comprising a nucleophilic component having one or more sterically unhindered primary or secondary amine moieties, a Bronsted base component having one or more basic nitrogen moieties, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water. A biphasic composition is provided, comprising one or more carbamate compounds, one ...