US Patent Issued to MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY on Oct. 6 for "Hierarchical inverted/normal cobalt ferrite nano-chessboard" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,527, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (Baltimore).

"Hierarchical inverted/normal cobalt ferrite nano-chessboard" was invented by Abdellah Lisfi (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cobalt ferrite film consisting of twinned cobalt ferrite isomer crystals, metastable normal Co2+tet[Fe3+oct]2O4 isomer [nCFO] and tetragonal inverted Fe3+tet[Co2+Fe3+]octO4 isomer [iCFO], the nCFO and iCFO isomer crystals alternating in chessboard fashion in three dimensions, the cobalt ferrite film made by pulsed laser deposition in a vacuum chamber from a polycrystalline CoFe2O4 target on a single crystal one-side polished ...