ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,163, issued on May 12, was assigned to NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Neb.).
"Ionomers with macrocyclic moieties for ion conductivity and permselectivity" was invented by Shudipto Konika Dishari (Dacca, Bangladesh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided here are ion conducting materials including one or more macrocycles, and either one or more pendant groups or one or more backbone repeat units. The ion conducting materials exhibit distinctly high ion conductivity in thin film and bulk membrane applications, and further exhibit one or more of ion permselectivity, mechanical strength, self-assembly, stacking, and gating behavior. Further pr...