US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Aug. 19 for "Robust bijels for interfacial catalysis and interphase separations" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,782, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Robust bijels for interfacial catalysis and interphase separations" was invented by Daeyeon Lee (Wynnewood, Pa.), Kathleen Stebe (Penn Valley, Pa.), Giuseppe Di Vitantonio (Philadelphia) and Tiancheng Wang (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of making robust bijels include dispersing metal oxide precursors and/or metal salts into at least one phase of a bijel and hydrolyzing and condensing the metal oxide precursors and/or metal salts in a sol-gel reaction to form sintered bridges between interfacially jammed surfa...