US Patent Issued to SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO-TECH AND NANO-BIONICS (SINANO), CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on April 7 for "Preparation method of aerogel fiber and use" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,593, issued on April 7, was assigned to SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO-TECH AND NANO-BIONICS (SINANO), CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Suzhou, China).

"Preparation method of aerogel fiber and use" was invented by Xuetong Zhang (Suzhou, China) and Zengwei Liu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preparation method of an aerogel fiber and use are provided. The preparation method includes: mixing a solvent and a polymer material to form a spinning solution; driving the spinning solution with a high-speed airflow by using a blow spinning technology to form a jet flow, and forming a gel fiber through sol-gel transition; and performing s...