US Patent Issued to Iowa State University Research Foundation on Feb. 24 for "Stable undercooled metallic particles for filling a void" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,824, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. (Ames, Iowa).

"Stable undercooled metallic particles for filling a void" was invented by Martin Thuo (Ames, Iowa) and Ian Tevis (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Undercooled liquid metallic core-shell particles, whose core is stable against solidification at ambient conditions, i.e. under near ambient temperature and pressure conditions, are used to join or repair metallic non-particulate components. The undercooled-shell particles in the form of nano-size or micro-size particles comprise an undercooled stable liquid metallic core encapsul...