US Patent Issued to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York on Aug. 11 for "Organosilica membranes, methods of making same, and uses thereof" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,957, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Amherst, N.Y.).

"Organosilica membranes, methods of making same, and uses thereof" was invented by Lingxiang Zhu (Amherst, N.Y.), Liang Huang (Amherst, N.Y.), Mark Swihart (Williamsville, N.Y.) and Haiqing Lin (Buffalo, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are composite articles having a membrane and a porous substrate, where the porous substrate has the membrane disposed thereon. The membrane has two layers, where the first layer has the second layer disposed thereon, and each layer has a plurality of polymer chains with a p...