MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202611052319 A) filed by Baba Farid College Of Engineering And Technology; and Baba Farid College, Bathinda, Punjab, on April 24, for 'a process for preparing a metal oxide-biomass hybrid composite using ph-controlled adsorption and in-situ crystallization.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. Jasmeet Kaur; Dr. Gurpreet Kaur; Ms. Parneet Kaur; Ms. Navseerat Kaur Brar; Ms. Khushnoor Sharma; Ms. Banreet Kaur; and Dr. Pankaj Kumar.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Disclosed process (100) comprises preparing (102) a biomass slurry by combining a lignocellulosic biomass with an aqueous alkaline solution to obtain a partially delignified biomass substrate having exposed functional groups. The process (100) further includes adjusting (104) a pH of the biomass slurry to a value in a range of 10.5 to 11.0 prior to addition of a metal precursor to maintain metal ions in an adsorption-active ionic state and to activate the exposed functional groups of the partially delignified biomass substrate. The process (100) further includes introducing (106) a metal precursor solution to form a metal ion-biomass complex, followed by maintaining (108) the biomass slurry for an adsorption period to enable diffusion and chemisorption. Furthermore, the process (100) includes subjecting (110) the biomass slurry to heating at 50 C to 70 C to induce in-situ crystallization, thereby forming metal oxide nanoparticles anchored to the partially delignified biomass substrate."
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