US Patent Issued to Korea University Research and Business Foundation on April 14 for "Inorganic hollow nanocoils and method of manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,628, issued on April 14, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Inorganic hollow nanocoils and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Young Keun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jun Hwan Moon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to hollow nanocoils having a three-dimensional helical structure in the form of a hollow tube and a method of manufacturing the same. The present invention provides a method of synthesizing metal nanocoils into inorganic hollow nanocoils using the galvanic replacement reaction and an electrochemical reaction ...