US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on June 2 for "Lithium selective organogels" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,975, issued on June 2, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Lithium selective organogels" was invented by Jonathan L. Sessler (Austin, Texas), Zachariah Page (Austin, Texas) and Hu Wang (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to strapped calixpyrrole compounds, polymer monomers and polymers comprising strapped calixpyrrole substructures, and compositions thereof. Also provided herein are methods of use of said strapped calixpyrrole compounds, polymer monomers, and polymers, such as for the selective extraction of specific salts."

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