US Patent Issued to HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY on March 17 for "Vapor-based method and system for printing a 3D structure" (Qatari Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,582, issued on March 17, was assigned to HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY (Doha, Qatar).

"Vapor-based method and system for printing a 3D structure" was invented by Hicham Hamoudi (Doha, Qatar) and Golibjon Berdiyorov (Doha, Qatar).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vapor-based method and system for printing a 3D structure are provided. The vapor-based method includes providing a substrate; providing a first vapor including an organic molecule including a functional group at each end for creation of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) as a building block for printing the 3D structure; providing a second vapor including metal ions; applying th...