US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Nov. 3 for "Substitutional boron dopants in triphenlyene motif for photovoltaic or photodiode applications" (North Carolina, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,534, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Substitutional boron dopants in triphenlyene motif for photovoltaic or photodiode applications" was invented by Paul A. Brown (Laurel Springs, N.C.), Jakub Kolacz (Alexandria, Va.) and Christopher M. Spillmann (Annandale, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Quasi-planar borane doped into (hexathiol)triphenylenes (TPP) operates as the photoactive component in the heterojunction of photovoltaics or photodiodes in heterojunctions with monolayer graphene."

The patent was filed on July 17, 20...