Agilent Technologies was granted a patent for precision porous polymer devices.

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    "patent_title": "Methods of making porous devices from monodisperse populations of polyarylketone or polyarylthioetherketone particles",
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    "patent_abstract": "The invention provides methods for making porous devices from substantially monodisperse populations of substantially spherical particles of polyarylketone polymers or of thio-analogues of such polymers, of selected sizes. The porous devices allow greater control of porosity than previously available porous devices. In some embodiments, the porous devices are frits, filters, membranes or monoliths.",
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