US Patent Issued to VERSITECH, Advanced Biomedical Instrumental Centre on June 9 for "Ultrastrong aerogels based on aramid nanofiber composites and membrane devices made therefrom" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,835, issued on June 9, was assigned to VERSITECH Ltd. (Hong Kong) and Advanced Biomedical Instrumental Centre Ltd. (NT, China).

"Ultrastrong aerogels based on aramid nanofiber composites and membrane devices made therefrom" was invented by Lizhi Xu (Changsha, China), Hegeng Li (Wuhan, China), Hongzhen Liu (Shenzhen, China), Huimin He (Kaihua, China) and Zuochen Wang (Langzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite nanofiber aerogel (CNA) is formed from aramid nanofibers (ANFs) combined with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA). These nanoscale constituents of the aerogel form 3D networks with high nodal connectivity and strongly welded ...