US Patent Issued to Washington University on Jan. 13 for "Doped anion exchange membranes (AEMs) for highly selective separators in electrochemical devices" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,708, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Doped anion exchange membranes (AEMs) for highly selective separators in electrochemical devices" was invented by Zhongyang Wang (St. Louis), Shrihari Sankarasubramanian (St. Louis), Vijay K. Ramani (St. Louis), Yunzhu Zhang (St. Louis) and Javier Parrondo (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Anion exchange membranes (AEMs) for separators in electrochemical devices and methods for making same are disclosed herein. AEMs include chloromethylated SEBS triblock copolymer functionalized with TRIS cations and chloromethylated QPEK-C functionalized with TMA cat...