ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,636, issued on May 26, was assigned to Northeastern University (Shenyang, China).
"Monolithic adsorbent shaping method and application" was invented by Liying Liu (Shenyang, China), Zhe Wang (Shenyang, China) and Zhuo Li (Shenyang, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preparation method of a granular adsorbent is provided, including the following: adding a pyrrole monomer to an acidic solution, and adding an oxidant as an initiator to allow a polymerization reaction of the pyrrole monomer to produce polypyrrole (PPy), where an adsorption material powder is added to a reaction system before, during, or immediately after the polymeriz...