Natcore Technology Assigned Patent
William Marsh Rice University, Natcore Technology Assigned Patent
Targeted News Service
By Targeted News Service
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 4 -- William Marsh Rice University, Houston, and Natcore Technology, Red Bank, N.J., have been assigned a patent (8,361,349) developed by Andrew R. Barron, Houston, Dennis J. Flood, Oberlin, Ohio, and John Ryan Loscutova, Houston, for a "fabrication of light emitting film coated fullerenes and their application for in-vivo light emission."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A nanoparticle coated with a semiconducting material and a method for making the same. In one embodiment, the method comprises making a semiconductor coated nanoparticle comprising a layer of at least one semiconducting material covering at least a portion of at least one surface of a nanoparticle, comprising: (A) dispersing the nanoparticle under suitable conditions to provide a dispersed nanoparticle; and (B) depositing at least one semiconducting material under suitable conditions onto at least one surface of the dispersed nanoparticle to produce the semiconductor coated nanoparticle. In other embodiments, the nanoparticle comprises a fullerene. Further embodiments include the semiconducting material comprising CdS or CdSe."
The patent application was filed on Feb. 18, 2010 (12/708,225). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,361,349&OS=8,361,349&RS=8,361,349
Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.
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