US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on March 31 for "Precursor chemistry for quantum dot synthesis enabling temperature-independent modulation of reactivity" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,246, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Precursor chemistry for quantum dot synthesis enabling temperature-independent modulation of reactivity" was invented by Hee-Sun Han (Urbana, Ill.) and Joonhyuck Park (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of making a high-quality quantum dot (QD), including by providing anion precursor chemistry that enables chemical modulation of precursor reactivity, thereby, allowing independent optimization of reaction temperature and precursor reactivity to systematically grow high quality QDs and by p...