US Patent Issued to AUBURN UNIVERSITY on Oct. 20 for "Method to make hydrogels and cellulose from pectin- and protein-containing cellulosic biomass" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,767, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to AUBURN UNIVERSITY (Auburn, Ala.).

"Method to make hydrogels and cellulose from pectin- and protein-containing cellulosic biomass" was invented by Burak Aksoy (Auburn, Ala.), Zhihua Jiang (Auburn, Ala.) and Navid E. Alamdari (Auburn, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a hydrogel by treating a cellulosic biomass containing pectin and protein with an aqueous acidic solution at a pH, at a temperature, and for a time sufficient to cause formation of at least a gel fraction containing the hydrogel."

The patent was filed on Nov. 14, 2023, under Application No. 18/508,979.

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