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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2018
The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (US);
525 Solutions, Inc., Tuscaloosa, AL (US);
Robin D. Rogers, Tuscaloosa, AL (US);
Oleksandra Zavgorodnya, Tuscaloosa, AL (US);
Julia L. Shamshina, Tuscaloosa, AL (US);
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, Tuscaloosa, AL (US);
525 Solutions, Inc., Tuscaloosa, AL (US);
Abstract
Methods for making metal particle-chitin composite materials are described. The methods can comprise contacting an ionic liquid with chitin, thereby forming a mixture; contacting the mixture with a non-solvent, thereby forming a chitin substrate in the non-solvent; collecting the chitin substrate from the non-solvent; deacetylating the collected chitin substrate, thereby forming a deacetylated chitin substrate; contacting the deacetylated chitin substrate with a metal salt, thereby forming an impregnated precursor composite material; and contacting the impregnated precursor composite material with a reducing agent, thereby reducing the metal salt to form a plurality of metal particles dispersed on the chitin substrate and forming the metal particle-chitin composite material.