US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM on July 21 for "Synthesis of zeolites with interconnected nanosheets" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,000, issued on July 21, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM (Houston).

"Synthesis of zeolites with interconnected nanosheets" was invented by Jeffrey D. Rimer (Houston) and Rishabh Jain (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interconnected zeolite nanosheets with a structural motif resembling self-pillared pentasil zeolites are synthesized through the use of MEL or MFI-type zeolites as crystalline seeds. The use of MEL- or MFI-type zeolites as crystalline seeds induces the spontaneous formation of pillared zeolites, thus avoiding, for the first time, the use of any organic or branching template for the crystallization of th...