US Patent Issued to Trustees of Dartmouth College on Oct. 7 for "Polymer glass transition temperature manipulation via z/e hydrazone photoswitching" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,166, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.).

"Polymer glass transition temperature manipulation via z/e hydrazone photoswitching" was invented by Ivan Abrahamian (Hanover, N.H.), Sirun Yang (Hanover, N.H.), Laura L. Jeliazkov (Hanover, N.H.) and Jared D. Harris (Hanover, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, the present disclosure pertains to a method of changing the glass transition temperature of a polymer. In some embodiments, the polymer includes at least one hydrazone-containing compound. In general, the methods of the present disclosure include one or more of the following...