US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on June 30 for "Method of creating greater adhesion between asymmetric PVDF active layer and PEI fiber support to obtain multilayer janus membrane" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,812, issued on June 30, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method of creating greater adhesion between asymmetric PVDF active layer and PEI fiber support to obtain multilayer janus membrane" was invented by Turki Nabieh Baroud (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed Abdul Azeem (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Aminu Doguwa (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer Janus membrane with directional wettability includes a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) layer, a polyetherimide (PEI) layer and an intermediate layer of copper oxide nanoparticles and vinylidene fluoride and ...