US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE on Sept. 2 for "Hexacoordinate pincer complexes and applications thereof" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,546, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Hexacoordinate pincer complexes and applications thereof" was invented by Thomas Andrew Schmedake (Charlotte, N.C.), Michael George Walter (Charlotte, N.C.), Yong Zhang (Charlotte, N.C.) and Margaret Kocherga (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variety of hexacoordinate pincer complexes are described herein having electronic structure advantageous for electronic and/or optoelectronic applications. In some embodiments, the pincer complexes are luminescent, exhibiting fluorescence and/or phosphorescence. Briefly, a he...