US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle on Jan. 13 for "Dynamically crosslinked tough adhesive with recyclability" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,754, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Dynamically crosslinked tough adhesive with recyclability" was invented by Tomonori Saito (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Md Anisur Rahman (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crosslinked adhesive composition comprising: (i) a polymer; (ii) solid particles embedded within the polymer; and (iii) a multiplicity of boronate linkages crosslinking between the polymer and solid particles, wherein the boronate linkages have the formulawherein the polymer and particles are connected to each other through the boronate linkages, and the crosslinked adhesive compo...