US Patent Issued to The University of Kansas on July 1 for "Hydrogel with selective absorption for separation of liquid mixtures" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,716, issued on July 1, was assigned to The University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kan.).

"Hydrogel with selective absorption for separation of liquid mixtures" was invented by Anjana Maharjan (Lawrence, Kan.), Mohammadamin Ezazi (Lawrence, Kan.) and Gibum Kwon (Lawrence, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for synthesizing a hydrogel are disclosed. The method includes the steps of: (a) dissolving effective amounts of a monomer, a crosslinker, and a photoinitiator in deionized water, wherein the overall concentration is about 200 mg/ml; (b) preparing a solution of a fluorinated acrylate or diacrylate in ethanol wherein the overall con...