US Patent Issued to UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY on June 10 for "Method to create hydrophilic antimicrobial diamond coating" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,660, issued on June 10, was assigned to UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (Washington).

"Method to create hydrophilic antimicrobial diamond coating" was invented by Anirudha V. Sumant (Plainfield, Ill.) and Shikai Deng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for creating a hydrophilic antimicrobial diamond coating on a silicon or glass surface includes providing a silicon or glass surface, creating a second surface by seeding a plurality of nanodiamond particles on the silicon or glass surface by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition (MPCVD), and forming a silver nitrate and hydroxylamine solution. A third surface may...