US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on Nov. 11 for "Organic non-wettable superhydrophobic fullerite films" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,735, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Organic non-wettable superhydrophobic fullerite films" was invented by Debashis Chanda (Orlando, Fla.) and Rinku Saran (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing an organic non-wettable superhydrophobic fullerite film is presented. Non-wettable superhydrophobic fullerite films can be easily produced by growing nanofullerites via a sonication coupled crystallization protocol followed by multiple washings to obtain a pellet of nanofullerites. The pellet is aged for at least several weeks to allow for...