US Patent Issued to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, Giner on March 18 for "Atomically dispersed platinum-group metal-free catalysts and method for synthesis of the same" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,338, issued on March 18, was assigned to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Amherst, N.Y.) and Giner Inc. (Newton, Mass.).

"Atomically dispersed platinum-group metal-free catalysts and method for synthesis of the same" was invented by Gang Wu (Clarence Center, N.Y.), Hui Xu (Acton, Mass.), Mengjie Chen (Buffalo, N.Y.) and Fan Yang (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Atomically dispersed platinum-group metal-free catalyst and method for synthesizing the same. According to one embodiment, the catalyst is made by a method in which, in a first step, an Mn-doped ZIF-8 catalyst precursor is prepared by ...