US Patent Issued to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on June 2 for "Three dimensional multiphasic structures via vaporization induced phase separation (VIPS)" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,082, issued on June 2, was assigned to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Three dimensional multiphasic structures via vaporization induced phase separation (VIPS)" was invented by Daeyeon Lee (Wynnewood, Pa.), Kathleen J Stebe (Penn Valley, Pa.) and Tiancheng Wang (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure demonstrates a new method to produce three dimensional multiphasic structures, including bijels, via vapor-induced phase separation (VIPS). In VIPS, the evaporation of the co-solvent from a ternary mixture of oil, water and ethanol, induces phase separation. Particles present in the mi...