US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Dec. 23 for "Methods of adjusting carbon and silica content in rice hull ash (RHA) byproducts to control carbothermal reduction forming nanostructured silicon carbide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride nanocomposites" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,144, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Methods of adjusting carbon and silica content in rice hull ash (RHA) byproducts to control carbothermal reduction forming nanostructured silicon carbide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride nanocomposites" was invented by Mengjie Yu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Richard Laine (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Eleni Temeche (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various aspects, methods of making a silicon carbide or silicon nitride from rice hull ash (RHA) byproduct are provided. A treated silica depleted rice hull ash product (SDRHA) comp...