US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 31 for "Post-synthetically modified metal-organic frameworks for selective binding of heavy metal ions in water" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,379, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Post-synthetically modified metal-organic frameworks for selective binding of heavy metal ions in water" was invented by David Britt (El Cerrito, Calif.), Daniel Sun (Sion, Switzerland) and Wendy Queen (Grimisuat, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition of matter for selective binding of at least one heavy metal comprising at least one porous metal-organic framework (MOF) with unsaturated coordination sites, at least one organic ligand functionalized with at least one functional group tailored to bind to the at l...