US Patent Issued to University of Connecticut on Dec. 30 for "Ceramic foams with imbedded self-assembled electrically conductive pristine graphene networks" (Connecticut, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,401, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to University of Connecticut (Farmington, Conn.).

"Ceramic foams with imbedded self-assembled electrically conductive pristine graphene networks" was invented by Douglas H. Adamson (Mansfield Center, Conn.) and Garrett Kraft (Cottonwood Heights, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Porous, electrically conductive ceramic foams incorporating continuous self-assembled graphene networks are described. The disclosed approach uses interfacial trapping to spontaneously exfoliate and assemble pristine graphite, not graphite oxide, in a ceramic sol-gel. The composite foams display electrical conductivity a...