ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,308, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Method of manufacturing a non-polar volatile organic chemical sensor" was invented by Jing Hao Ciou (Singapore) and Pooi See Lee (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a non-polar volatile organic chemical sensor, the method requiring the steps of providing a composite material comprising a substrate coated by an activated Ti3C2 MXene layer, which activated Ti3C2 MXene layer has a surface and forming a hydrophobic silane layer on the surface of the activated Ti3C2 MXene layer to provide the non-polar v...