US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Oct. 14 for "Nano and quantum sized particles from atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides and related methods" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,103, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Nano and quantum sized particles from atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides and related methods" was invented by Deep Jariwala (Philadelphia), Eric Andrew Stach (Swarthmore, Pa.) and Pawan Kumar (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are novel transition metal dichalcogenides having a platelet structure and comprising a 2H phase region and/or a 3R phase region. The platelets exhibit a narrow size distribution and comparatively high surface area and edge area, which characteristics render the platelets espe...