US Patent Issued to University of North Texas on April 7 for "Synthesis of uniform diamond nanoparticles" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,179, issued on April 7, was assigned to University of North Texas (Denton, Texas).

"Synthesis of uniform diamond nanoparticles" was invented by Hao Yan (Denton, Texas) and Tengteng Lyu (Denton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The synthesis of sub-five-nanometer nanodiamonds with high uniformity and purity. Inspired by the formation of natural diamond, iron carbide nanoparticles embedded in iron oxide matrices as the carbon source were used. High-pressure-high-temperature treatment of the precursor yields nanodiamonds with tunable diameters down to 2.13 nm and 0.22-nm standard deviation. The disclosed synthesis procedures also in...