ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,527, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (Anhui, China).

"Nickel-carbon composite and preparation method and use thereof" was invented by Shengtao Gao (Anhui, China) and Yuanchun Zhang (Anhui, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wave-absorbing materials in the form of a nickel-carbon composite that includes a plurality of modified carbon particles, where each of the modified carbon particles includes a nickel nanoparticle core and a carbon layer wrapped on a surface of the nickel nanoparticle core; and a plurality of the modified carbon particles form an octahedral structure. When a high-frequ...