US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI on Dec. 16 for "Block copolymer templated crazing for membrane separation" (Mississippi, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,555, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI.

"Block copolymer templated crazing for membrane separation" was invented by Xiaodan Gu (Hattiesburg, Miss.) and Daniel Weller (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A porous composite ultrafiltration membrane including a block copolymer layer having (a) one or more soft block polymer(s) having an elongation at break of greater than about 50%, as measured by ASTM D638 and an elastic modulus of between 10 MPa to 3 GPa as measured by the ASTM D638 tensile test; and (b) one or more hard block polymer(s) having an elongation at break of less than ...