US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on Sept. 15 for "Highly dispersible graphene material" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,321, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Highly dispersible graphene material" was invented by Irina Kalinina (Camarillo, Calif.), Douglas Meyers (Los Angeles) and Satyabrata Raychaudhuri (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an efficient and effective method to produce a graphene material by a high shear mechanical process to exfoliate a natural graphite dispersion in a solvent, followed by supercritical exfoliation and drying. The method exfoliates all graphitic flakes into mostly few-layer graphene flakes. This method is more efficient than traditional mechanic...