US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO on March 25 for "Photosensitive, inorganic ligand-capped inorganic nanocrystals" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,651, issued on March 25, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago).

"Photosensitive, inorganic ligand-capped inorganic nanocrystals" was invented by Dmitri V. Talapin (La Grange Park, Ill.), Yuanyuan Wang (Nanjing, China), Jia-Ahn Pan (Chicago) and Haoqi Wu (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ligand-capped inorganic particles, dispersions of the ligand-capped inorganic particles, and films composed of the ligand-capped inorganic particles are provided. Also provided are methods of patterning the films and electronic, photonic, and optoelectronic devices that incorporate the films. The ligands include bifunctional ligan...