US Patent Issued to Agency for Science, Technology and Research on June 3 for "Composite material and a method of preparing the same" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,752, issued on June 3, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Composite material and a method of preparing the same" was invented by Xu Li (Singapore) and Jiating He (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a composite material comprising a porous silica particle, a plurality of metal particles disposed within the pores of said silica particle and a polymeric coating that at least partially encapsulates said silica particle. There is also provided a method of preparing a composite material, comprising the step of mixing a solution containing a plurality of activated metal and silic...