US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS on June 17 for "Method of forming porous inorganic films via polymer swelling infiltration" (Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,394, issued on June 17, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS (Dallas).

"Method of forming porous inorganic films via polymer swelling infiltration" was invented by Diana Berman (Dallas), Elena V. Shevchenko (Chicago) and Supratik Guha (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming an inorganic film on a surface can include depositing a polymer at a layer on a surface, swelling the polymer with a solvent to produce a swollen polymer on the surface, infiltrating the swollen polymer with a precursor, removing the swollen polymer after infiltrating the swollen polymer with the precursor, and forming a porous inorganic f...