US Patent Issued to Korea University Research and Business Foundation on April 21 for "Method of controlling crystallographic arrangement in mesocrystals" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,454, issued on April 21, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of controlling crystallographic arrangement in mesocrystals" was invented by Young Keun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Bum Chul Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Min Jun Ko (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of controlling the arrangement of building block nanocrystals in iron oxide mesocrystals by controlling the type of surface ligand, the method including mixing an iron ion precursor and a surface ligand. The present invention can provide nanoparticles having dif...