US Patent Issued to University of Science and Technology Beijing on Dec. 30 for "Forming nanotwinned regions in a ceramic coating at a tunable volume fraction" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,760, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to University of Science and Technology Beijing (Beijing).

"Forming nanotwinned regions in a ceramic coating at a tunable volume fraction" was invented by Xiaolu Pang (Beijing), Tao Guo (Beijing) and Kewei Gao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a general aspect, a ceramic thin film with nanotwinned regions at a tunable volume fraction is manufactured. In some aspects, a method for manufacturing a ceramic thin film on a surface of a substrate in an evacuated chamber is disclosed. The ceramic thin film includes crystalline grains; and each of the crystalline grains includes one or more nanot...