US Patent Issued to UT-BATTELLE on July 29 for "Fluorinated nanoporous molecular sieve membranes for efficient gas separation" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,495, issued on July 29, was assigned to UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Fluorinated nanoporous molecular sieve membranes for efficient gas separation" was invented by Sheng Dai (Knoxville, Tenn.), Zhenzhen Yang (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Ilja Popovs (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crosslinked microporous membrane (crosslinked polymer) composition useful in gas separation, the membrane comprising: (i) an aromatic polymer containing a multiplicity of benzene rings; and (ii) a multiplicity of fluorinated aromatic moieties, each fluorinated aromatic moiety containing at least two separate methylene (-CH2-) linkages co...