US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Aug. 4 for "Ring-in-ring complexes exhibiting tunable multicolor photoluminescence" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,285, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Ring-in-ring complexes exhibiting tunable multicolor photoluminescence" was invented by Huang Wu (Evanston, Ill.), James Fraser Stoddart (Evanston, Ill.) and Yu Wang (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are ring-in-ring photoluminescent complexes comprising a host cyclophane and a guest cyclophane threaded through the host cyclophane and methods of using and making the same. Further disclosed herein a method for tuning photo-luminescence, the method comprising providing a host cyclophane and a guest cyclophane, contacting the g...