US Patent Issued to Trustees of Dartmouth College on March 31 for "Three-dimensional printing with supramolecular templated hydrogels" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,213, issued on March 31, was assigned to Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.).

"Three-dimensional printing with supramolecular templated hydrogels" was invented by Chenfeng Ke (Lebanon, N.H.), Pengfei Zhang (Hanover, N.H.), Longyu Li (Lebanon, N.H.) and Qianming Lin (West Lebanon, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a supramolecular polymer composition capable of co-assembly to maintain a three dimensional (3-D) macrostructural form after 3-D printing, made of a solvent, a template molecule; and a reactive component. The reactive component can be at least one monomer that is capable of hydrogen bondin...