US Patent Issued to Trustees of Boston University on Nov. 3 for "Controlled and tunable fabrication of polymer thin films" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,376, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Trustees of Boston University (Boston).

"Controlled and tunable fabrication of polymer thin films" was invented by Joerg Gerd Werner (Medford, Mass.), Wenlu Wang (Brighton, Mass.) and Zhaoyi Zheng (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polymers and methods for electrodeposition conformal thin film and articles associated therewith are disclosed herein. An example polymer includes a non-conductive polymer backbone and plural electrochemically active crosslinker groups covalently attached to the polymer backbone. An example method of forming a conformal polymer thin film on a conductive substrate i...