US Patent Issued to NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY on June 30 for "Flexible and smart wood with responsive function, preparation method thereof and actuator" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,995, issued on June 30, was assigned to NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Flexible and smart wood with responsive function, preparation method thereof and actuator" was invented by Qiliang Fu (Nanjing, China), Shuai Wu (Nanjing, China), Yue Jiao (Nanjing, China) and Huashuo Ma (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible and smart wood with responsive function, an actuator and a preparation method of the flexible and smart wood with responsive function are provided. The preparation method includes the following steps: removing lignin from wood by using sodium chlorite solution, removing hemicellulose through...