US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY on Jan. 27 for "Polyelectrolyte hydrogel coating with strong substrate binding performance and method of manufacturing the same" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,549, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Polyelectrolyte hydrogel coating with strong substrate binding performance and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Jian Ji (Hangzhou, China), Kefeng Ren (Hangzhou, China), Jing Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Xingwang Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polyelectrolyte hydrogel coating with strong substrate binding performance and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The method includes: 1) activating a substrate by applying oxygen plasma; and 2) dissolving a polycationic polymer, a polymeric monomer, a silane coupl...