US Patent Issued to United States Department of Energy on April 14 for "2D amorphous carbon film assembled from graphene quantum dots" (Illinois, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,634, issued on April 14, was assigned to United States Department of Energy (Washington).

"2D amorphous carbon film assembled from graphene quantum dots" was invented by Qing Cao (Champaign, Ill.), Fufei An (Urbana, Ill.), Christopher Matranga (Pittsburgh), Congjun Wang (Bethel Park, Pa.) and Viet Hung Pham (Bethel Park, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Amorphous two-dimensional graphene-like carbon films provide benefits to a variety of applications due to advantageous electrical, mechanical, and chemical properties. Methods are provided to efficiently and cheaply create high-quality amorphous two-dimensional carbon films with em...