US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Aug. 5 for "Contaminant-sequestering coatings and methods of using the same" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,138, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Contaminant-sequestering coatings and methods of using the same" was invented by Christopher M. Hoffman Jr. (Odenton, Md.), Zhiyong Xia (Rockville, Md.) and James K. Johnson (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Contaminant-sequestering coatings include a network of hydrolyzed silane compounds including (i) a plurality of fluorinated functionalities, and (ii) a plurality of thiol functional groups are provided. The network of hydrolyzed silane compounds includes a fluorinated silane including (a) a hydrophilic polar head region. The polar he...