US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle, University of Tennessee Research Foundation on May 13 for "Triazine-based membranes for gas separation" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,322, issued on May 13, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Triazine-based membranes for gas separation" was invented by Zhenzhen Yang (Knoxville, Tenn.), Ilja Popovs (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Sheng Dai (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymer composition comprising a covalent triazine framework having the following structure:wherein: each asterisk (*) in A units denotes a point of covalent bonding with an asterisk in B units, and each asterisk (*) in B units denotes a point of covalent bonding with an asterisk in A units; r is an intege...