US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on April 29 for "Heterostructured thin-film catalysts comprising nanocavities" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,715, issued on April 29, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Heterostructured thin-film catalysts comprising nanocavities" was invented by Yang Yang (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heterostructured catalyst includes a 2-dimensional (2D) array of titanium including nanocavities that are all directly attached to a substrate. Each of the titanium including nanocavities have a pore with a nanopore size and a wall with a nanowall thickness. The titanium including nanocavities can be titania nanocavities with a metal layer or a metal compound layer on the titania nanocavit...