US Patent Issued to University of Cincinnati on March 24 for "Carbon nanotube electrochemical set as lab-on-a-chip" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,878, issued on March 24, was assigned to University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati).

"Carbon nanotube electrochemical set as lab-on-a-chip" was invented by Noe Alvarez (Cincinnati) and Pankaj Gupta (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure concerns open-end carbon nanotubes assembled as a microelectrode array in electrode sets/micro-electrode sets (ES/micro-ES). The ES/micro-ES includes three electrodes that are made of highly densified multi-walled carbon nanotubes fibers (HD-CNTfs) sectioned into rods embedded in an inert polymer film with exposed open ends of CNTs at the electrode-electrolyte interface. The ES/...