Antibiological sorbent and method of manufacture thereof
AssigneeMolekule Group, Inc.
InventorJaspreet S. Dhau
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Abstract
An antibiological sorbent can include sorbent material (e.g., porous carbon, activated carbon, inorganic carbon, organic carbon, etc.), antibiological material, optionally a functionalizing material, and/or any other suitable material. The antibiological material (and/or the functionalizing material) can coat, intercalate within (e.g., within a porous network of), form structures on, be disposed on, bind to, and/or otherwise be interfaced to the sorbent material. A method for manufacturing the antibiological sorbent can include: mixing sorbent material with a precursor; optionally, functionalizing (e.g., activating) the sorbent material; forming antibiological material from the precursor; optionally, post-processing (e.g., washing) the resulting material; and/or any suitable steps.
Claims10
A method comprising:
- a. forming a slurry comprising porous carbon particles, a solvent, and an antibiological precursor;
- b. reducing the antibiological precursor to form a reduced antibiological precursor by adding a reducing agent to the slurry, wherein the only byproducts from oxidation of the reducing agent are water or gas-phase at standard temperature and pressure;
- c. after the antibiological precursor has been reduced, adding an oxidizing agent to the slurry to form coated carbon particles comprising antibiological nanoparticles dispersed on a surface of the porous carbon particles, wherein the oxidizing agent oxidizes the reduced antibiological precursor to form the antibiological nanoparticles;
- wherein the antibiological precursor comprises selenium powder and the antibiological nanoparticles comprise selenium nanoparticles, wherein the reducing agent reduces the selenium powder into selenium anions, wherein the oxidizing agent oxidizes the selenium anions into the selenium nanoparticles.
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