US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Nov. 3 for "Surface-water-assisted deposition of patterned films of aligned nanoparticles" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,665, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Surface-water-assisted deposition of patterned films of aligned nanoparticles" was invented by Michael Scott Arnold (Middleton, Wis.) and Sean Foradori (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of forming films of aligned elongated nanoparticles, films made using the methods, and electronic devices, such as transistors, that incorporate the films are provided. In the methods, elongated nanoparticles floating at the surface of a liquid film are deposited onto a liquid film-adsorbing surface region of a substrate as the liquid film ...