US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on Aug. 18 for "Honeycomb structure and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,829, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Honeycomb structure and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Hirotomo Nishihara (Sendai, Japan), Mao Owada (Sendai, Japan) and Rui Tang (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A honeycomb structure which is an aggregate of a plurality of microtubes comprising a cellulose nanofiber, wherein the microtubes have an opening shape which is polygonal, wherein the ratio of an average long diameter Mu2 (micro metre) to an average short diameter Mu1 (micro metre) (Mu2/Mu1) is 2.0 or less, when the average long diameter Mu2 (micro metre) is an average o...