US Patent Issued to DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY on April 14 for "Photothermal energy conversion and thermal energy storage form-stable phase change composite material and preparation method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,893, issued on April 14, was assigned to DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Dalian, China).

"Photothermal energy conversion and thermal energy storage form-stable phase change composite material and preparation method thereof" was invented by Bingtao Tang (Liaoning, China), Xiaoqiao Fan (Liaoning, China), Lu Liu (Liaoning, China), Yuang Zhang (Liaoning, China) and Shufen Zhang (Liaoning, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite material is applicable for photothermal energy conversion and thermal energy storage form-stable phase change. The composite material includes a supporting material and an organic phase-change material....