US Patent Issued to The University of Chicago on June 9 for "Covalent surface modification of two-dimensional metal carbides" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,665, issued on June 9, was assigned to The University of Chicago (Chicago).

"Covalent surface modification of two-dimensional metal carbides" was invented by Vladislav Kamysbayev (Chicago) and Dmitri V. Talapin (La Grange Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for modifying the surface termination of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides (MXenes) are provided. The methods, which allow for versatile chemical modification of the terminating anions via halide exchange or substitution and elimination reactions in molten inorganic salts, provide a processing approach that is widely applicable to MXenes as a broad class ...