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US 2024/0269689 A1Published application
Upgraded coal
AssigneeEnergy & Environmental Research Center Foundation
InventorsAlexander Azenkeng, Jason D. Laumb
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Abstract
Upgraded coal, method of forming the same, and graphene films and quantum dots made therefrom. A method of upgrading coal includes cleaning coal to form a cleaned coal residue. The method also includes (A) reacting the cleaned coal residue with an oxidizable inorganic metallic agent, or (B) reacting the cleaned coal residue with a reducing agent, or a combination thereof, to form the upgraded coal.
Claims20
A method of forming a graphene quantum dot, the method comprising:
- forming the graphene quantum dot from upgraded coal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.