US Patent Issued to College of William & Mary on Sept. 15 for "Methods and compositions for highly purified boron nitride nanotubes" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,319, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Va.).

"Methods and compositions for highly purified boron nitride nanotubes" was invented by Mahmoud S. Amin (Fremont, Calif.), David E. Kranbuehl (Williamsburg, Va.) and Hannes C. Schniepp (Williamsburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein we describe purified boron nitride nanotube compositions substantially free from hexagonal boron nitride. The compositions have a mass ratio of boron nitride nanotubes to hexagonal boron nitride of at least 100. Methods are provided for producing purified boron nitride nanotube compositions wherein impure comp...