US Patent Issued to Universitat Bayreuth on July 1 for "Method of preparing poly (acrylonitrile) fibers and poly(acrylonitrile) fibers obtainable therewith" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,961, issued on July 1, was assigned to Universitat Bayreuth (Bayreuth, Germany).

"Method of preparing poly (acrylonitrile) fibers and poly(acrylonitrile) fibers obtainable therewith" was invented by Andreas Greiner (Bayreuth, Germany), Seema Agarwal (Marburg, Germany) and Xiaojian Liao (Bayreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of preparing poly(acrylonitrile) fibers comprising: (i) providing a solution of poly(acrylonitrile) and a polyazide compound; and (ii) electrospinning the solution of poly(acrylonitrile) and a polyazide compound to provide fibers. The poly(acrylonitrile) fibers w...