US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Aug. 25 for "Self-healing metal-ligand polymeric materials" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,017, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Self-healing metal-ligand polymeric materials" was invented by Sunghyun Nam (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Lingjie Jay Guo (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various aspects, a self-healing polymeric material is provided, as well as methods of making a self-healing material. The self-healing material may include a polymer network defining one or more ligands having a metal ion coordination site. The polymer network may be a poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) hydrogel and the metal ion may be a transition metal, like zinc. The metal ...