US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on Feb. 10 for "Materials comprising carbon-embedded nickel nanoparticles, processes for their manufacture, and use as heterogeneous catalysts" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,741, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Materials comprising carbon-embedded nickel nanoparticles, processes for their manufacture, and use as heterogeneous catalysts" was invented by Arne Reinsdorf (Darmstadt, Germany), Dorit Wolf (Oberursel, Germany), Renat Kadyrov (Frankfurt, Germany) and Sarah Chamski (Freigericht, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to catalytically active material, comprising grains of non-graphitizing carbon with nickel nanoparticles dispersed therein, wherein dp, the average diameter of nickel nanoparticles in the non-graphitizing carb...