ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,116, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to UNITIKA Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Nickel nanowire and method for producing the same" was invented by Hirotaka Takeda (Uji, Japan) and Chikako Yamada (Uji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a nickel nanowire, which is resistant to break by stress. The present invention relates to a nickel nanowire having a face-centered cubic lattice structure and a crystallite size in a direction of a (111) lattice plane of 10 nm or less."
The patent was filed on May 17, 2021, under Application No. 17/923,686.
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