US Patent Issued to Research Triangle Institute on March 3 for "Porous metal organic framework-polymer composites for use in detoxifying chemical warfare agents" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,830, issued on March 3, was assigned to Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

"Porous metal organic framework-polymer composites for use in detoxifying chemical warfare agents" was invented by Ignacio Luz-Minguez (Durham, N.C.), Mustapha Soukri (Cary, N.C.) and David Dausch (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal organic framework (MOF)-polymer composite for detoxifying a chemical warfare agent (CWA) comprises MOF nanoparticles having catalytically active Lewis acid sites and at least one polymer having catalytically active basic sites. The composite is configured such that the at le...