US Patent Issued to University of South Carolina on July 28 for "Preparation of metallocene containing cationic polymers for anion exchange applications" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,419, issued on July 28, was assigned to University of South Carolina (Columbia, S.C.).

"Preparation of metallocene containing cationic polymers for anion exchange applications" was invented by Chuanbing Tang (Columbia, S.C.) and Tianyu Zhu (Columbia, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Chemically inert, mechanically tough, cationic metallo-polyelectrolytes designed as durable anion-exchange membranes (AEMs) via ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of cobaltocenium-containing cyclooctene with triazole as the only linker group, followed by backbone hydrogenation to provide a new class of AEMs with a polyethylene-like framework...