US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on March 31 for "Zeolite nanotubes and methods of making and use thereof" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,007, issued on March 31, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Zeolite nanotubes and methods of making and use thereof" was invented by Sankar Nair (Atlanta), Christopher W. Jones (Atlanta), Akshay Korde (Atlanta), Johannes Leisen (Atlanta), Byunghyun Min (Atlanta) and Ziyuan Wang (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are nanostructured hierarchical zeolitic materials comprising: a plurality of zeolite nanotubes, each zeolite nanotube comprising a zeolitic wall perforated by a plurality of pores, the zeolitic wall defining a single longitudinal lumen. Also disclosed herein are bolaform structure ...