ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,877, issued on March 24, was assigned to ZHEJIANG SHUREN UNIVERSITY (Shaoxing, China).

"Layered superhydrophilic Ti-Cu-MOFs, preparation method and use thereof" was invented by Yin Lu (Shaoxing, China), Yonggang Zhao (Shaoxing, China), Chao Lei (Shaoxing, China), Mingli Ye (Shaoxing, China), Taziana Saviskaya (Minsk, Belarus) and Andrei Ivanic (Minsk, Belarus).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Layered super-hydrophilic Ti-Cu-MOFs and a preparation method and use thereof provided, which relates to the technical field of composite materials. According to the present application, copper ions and titanium ions are used as bimetallic centers...