Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Based Self-Cleaning Floating Sponge Embedded With Hexadecyltrimethoxysilane(HTDMS)-Grafted Red Graphitic Carbon Nitride For Oil-Water Separation And Pollutant Removal' Filed by National Institute Of Technology

MUMBAI, India, Jan. 23 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641001791 A) filed by National Institute Of Technology, Calicut, Kerala, on Jan. 7, for 'polydimethylsiloxane (pdms) based self-cleaning floating sponge embedded with hexadecyltrimethoxysilane(htdms)-grafted red graphitic carbon nitride for oil-water separation and pollutant removal.'

Inventor(s) include Shalini Vishwanadhan; and Aparna K.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 23, under issue no. 04/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A self-cleaning, floating sponge system comprising red graphitic carbon (hereinafter referred to as R-g-CN) grafted with hexadecyltrimethoxysilane (hereinafter referred to as HDTMS) into a polydimethylsiloxane (hereinafter referred to as PDMS) scaffold. A method of fabricating the sponge system is also disclosed."

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