US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO on May 20 for "Colloidal ternary group III-V nanocrystals synthesized in molten salts" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,829, issued on May 20, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago).

"Colloidal ternary group III-V nanocrystals synthesized in molten salts" was invented by Dmitri V. Talapin (La Grange Park, Ill.) and Vishwas Srivastava (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of synthesizing colloidal ternary Group III-V nanocrystals are provided. Also provided are the colloidal ternary Group III-V nanocrystals made using the methods. In the methods, molten inorganic salts are used as high temperature solvents to carry out cation exchange reactions that convert binary nanocrystals into ternary nanocrystals."

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