US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on Jan. 13 for "Semiconductor nanoparticle-based detection" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,147, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Semiconductor nanoparticle-based detection" was invented by Mark Hammig (Dexter, Mich.) and Nicholas Kotov (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector includes a substrate including a matrix of aramid nanofibers, a distribution of nanoparticles across the matrix of aramid nanofibers, and a plurality of organic capping ligands. Each organic capping ligand of the plurality of organic capping ligands bonds a respective nanoparticle of the plurality of nanoparticles to a respective aramid nanofiber of the matrix of arami...