US Patent Issued to Global Graphene Group on Sept. 22 for "Production of graphene directly from biomass precursor" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,873, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Global Graphene Group Inc. (Dayton, Ohio).

"Production of graphene directly from biomass precursor" was invented by Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of producing isolated graphene sheets directly from a biomass, the method including: (A) providing a biomass in a liquid state, solution state, solid state, or semi-solid state; (B) heat treating the biomass and, concurrently or sequentially, using chemical or mechanical means to form graphene domains dispersed in a disordered matrix of carbon or hydrocarbon molecules, wherein the graphene domains...