US Patent Issued to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES on Aug. 25 for "Block copolymer porous carbon fibers and uses thereof" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,819, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Block copolymer porous carbon fibers and uses thereof" was invented by Guoliang Liu (Blacksburg, Va.) and Zhengping Zhou (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are porous carbon fibers, methods of making the porous carbon fibers, and methods of using the porous carbon fibers. In some aspects, the porous carbon fibers can have a hierarchical distribution of uniformly distributed meso- and micropores, wherein the micropores and mesopores can be interconnected. In aspects, the porous carbon fibers can have mes...