ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,666, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI (Cracow, Poland).
"Method for producing graphene nanostructures" was invented by Rafal Zuzak (Cracow, Poland) and Szymon Godlewski (Cracow, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fabricating graphene nanoribbons by depositing molecules of a precursor directly on a surface of a substrate that is atomically pure, wherein the precursor is a polycyclic aromatic compound having halogen atoms; polymerizing the molecules of the precursor on the surface; and cyclodehydrogenating the polymerized structures under high vacuum conditions to obtain the graphene nanoribbons...