US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on May 20 for "Porous interconnected corrugated carbon-based network (ICCN) composite" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,167, issued on May 20, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Porous interconnected corrugated carbon-based network (ICCN) composite" was invented by Maher F. El-Kady (Los Angeles), Richard B. Kaner (Pacific Palisades, Calif.) and Jee Youn Hwang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A porous interconnected corrugated carbon-based network (ICCN) composite and methods for making the same are disclosed. The porous ICCN composite is made up of a plurality of carbon layers that are interconnected and expanded apart from one another to form a plurality of pores. Metallic nanoparticles a...