US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 28 for "Magnetically tunable plasmon coupling of nanoshells enabled by space-free confined growth" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,398, issued on July 28, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Magnetically tunable plasmon coupling of nanoshells enabled by space-free confined growth" was invented by Yadong Yin (Riverside, Calif.) and Zhiwei Li (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming magnetic/plasmonic hybrid structures is disclosed. The method includes synthesizing colloidal magnetic nanoparticles; modifying the magnetic nanoparticles in a solution of a polymeric ligand; binding metal seed nanoparticles to the surface of the magnetic nanoparticles; and performing a seed-mediated growth on the...