US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Sept. 22 for "Durable lubricant-reacted nanocomposite coatings for preventing liquid- and solid-fouling and methods for preparing the same" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,296, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Durable lubricant-reacted nanocomposite coatings for preventing liquid- and solid-fouling and methods for preparing the same" was invented by Anish Tuteja (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jiayue Huang (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Fan-Wei Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A durable solid and liquid repellant nanocomposite material is provided that includes a polymeric matrix comprising polyurethane or fluoropolyurethane that has a plurality of lubricating domains distributed therein. The lubricating domains are formed by a partial...