US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL on May 12 for "Hydrogen-bond enriched ion exchange membranes" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,174, issued on May 12, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Hydrogen-bond enriched ion exchange membranes" was invented by Ryan Kingsbury (Carrboro, N.C.), Orlando Coronell (Cary, N.C.), Maruti Hedge (Carrboro, N.C.), Jingbo Wang (Los Angeles), Wei You (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Theo Dingemans (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently disclosed subject matter generally relates to polymer networks having covalent crosslinks, non-covalent crosslinks, and ionic side groups, and methods of making and using same. Specifically, the disclosed polymer networks can be incorpor...