US Patent Issued to CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG on April 21 for "CuWO 4 hollow nanosphere and methods of making thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,922, issued on April 21, was assigned to CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"CuWO 4 hollow nanosphere and methods of making thereof" was invented by Johnny Chung Yin Ho (Hong Kong), Dong Chen (Hong Kong), Shaoce Zhang (Hong Kong), Xiuming Bu (Hong Kong) and Quan Quan (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrochemical conversion of nitrate to ammonia is an approach to alleviate nitrate pollution in water and simultaneously generate green NH3 fuels. The practical application of this approach is challenging due to the lack of efficient electrocatalysts. The present disclosure relates generally to an electrocata...