US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on March 24 for "Zirconium dioxide/calcium silicate/graphitic carbon nitride nanocomposite and method of use as a photocatalyst" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,972, issued on March 24, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Zirconium dioxide/calcium silicate/graphitic carbon nitride nanocomposite and method of use as a photocatalyst" was invented by Mohamed Khairy Abdel Fattah Omran (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Babiker Yagoub Elhadi Abdulkhair (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of water purification includes mixing contaminated water with a zirconium dioxide (ZrO2)/calcium silicate (CaSiO3)/graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) based nanocomposite material to form a reaction mixture, further exposing the resultant reaction mi...