MUMBAI, India, July 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611046211 A) filed by Banaras Hindu University on April 10, 2026, for A Magnetite Based Polymeric Nanocomposite For Effective Microalgal Harvesting.
Inventors include Niwas Kumar; Pratyoosh Shukla; Surendra Kumar Yadav; and Jay Singh.
The application for the patent was published on July 10, 2026, under issue no. 28/2026.
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an efficient method for harvesting microalgal biomass using a nanocomposite material. Microalgal harvesting remains a major bottleneck in the large-scale production of biofuels and value-added metabolites due to high operational costs and low efficiency of conventional separation techni...