US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army on June 3 for "Method for directly creating a film of 2D polymers from monomer solutions" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,787, issued on June 3, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Method for directly creating a film of 2D polymers from monomer solutions" was invented by David C. McLeod (Abingdon, Md.), Robert H. Lambeth III (Elkton, Md.), Kevin R. Waters (Baltimore), Emil J. Sandoz-Rosado (Baltimore) and Eric D. Wetzel (Bel Air, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two-dimensional (2D) polymers and methods for their formation are described herein. To create oriented 2D polymer films, monomers are combined with processing additives within a solvent, creating a solution that can be cast and...