US Patent Issued to University of Maryland, College Park on July 1 for "Organic color center-tailored, semiconducting carbon nanotubes and their method of manufacture" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,571, issued on July 1, was assigned to University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.).

"Organic color center-tailored, semiconducting carbon nanotubes and their method of manufacture" was invented by Yuhuang Wang (Laurel, Md.), Hongbin Luo (College Park, Md.) and Peng Wang (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Organic color center-tailored carbon nanotubes, particularly semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes, are of significant interest for imaging, sensing, and quantum information processing applications. A high-yield, simple, one-pot synthetic route for producing these materials exceeding the current Mug/mL...