US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on April 22 for "Simple route to highly conductive porous graphene from carbon nanodots for supercapacitor applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,424, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Simple route to highly conductive porous graphene from carbon nanodots for supercapacitor applications" was invented by Volker Strauss (Los Angeles), Richard B. Kaner (Pacific Palisades, Calif.) and Maher F. El-Kady (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and compositions directed to a promising class of nanomaterials called organic nanoparticles, or carbon nanodots. The present disclosure provides a facile method for the conversion of biomolecule-based carbon nanodots into high surface area three-d...