US Patent Issued to SABANCI UNIVERSITESI on Sept. 8 for "Method for growing 2D/3D carbon-based nano- and submicron-sized structures" (Turkish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,121, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SABANCI UNIVERSITESI (Istanbul).

"Method for growing 2D/3D carbon-based nano- and submicron-sized structures" was invented by Burcu Saner Okan (Istanbul) and Yusuf Ziya Menceloglu (Istanbul).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A selective method for obtaining carbon-based two-dimensional and/or three-dimensional nano- or submicron-sized structures, including the following consecutive steps of selecting a suitable talc size, activating a surface of talc, thereby obtaining an activated surface; bringing the activated surface into contact with one or more polymers; and pyrolysis and/or carbonization of ...