US Patent Issued to FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH on March 24 for "Synthesis for producing ordered polyblock copolymers having a controllable molecular weight distribution" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,978, issued on March 24, was assigned to FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH (Julich, Germany).

"Synthesis for producing ordered polyblock copolymers having a controllable molecular weight distribution" was invented by Daniel Krause (Munster, Germany), Mariano Grunebaum (Nordkirchen, Germany), Hans-Dieter Wiemhofer (Munster, Germany) and Martin Winter (Munster, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for the sequential and convergent preparation of ordered block copolymers comprising at least one non-polar and one polar polymer block, wherein the non-polar block is built up from specific monomers ...