ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,241, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TONGJI UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Layered bimetallic hydroxide-based hydrogel bipolar membrane and method for preparing same" was invented by Zhiwei Wang (Shanghai), Wei Shi (Shanghai), Lijun Meng (Shanghai) and Xueye Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a layered bimetallic hydroxide-based hydrogel bipolar membrane and a method for preparing the same. The method includes: blade-coating a quaternized polyethersulfone solution on a substrate, and carrying out drying to obtain an anion exchange layer; immersing the layer sequentially and cyclically in a s...