US Patent Issued to CHANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY on July 8 for "Method for preparing silane coupling agent/silica/plant fiber composite" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,517, issued on July 8, was assigned to CHANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Changzhou, China).

"Method for preparing silane coupling agent/silica/plant fiber composite" was invented by Li Zhao (Changzhou, China), Chenyi Liu (Changzhou, China), Jie Li (Changzhou, China), Xiaoyun Cao (Changzhou, China), Xinping Guo (Changzhou, China) and Rui Zhu (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a silane coupling agent/silica/plant fiber composite includes the following steps: S1: pretreating plant fiber; S2: preparing hydrolysate of a silane coupling agent; S3: preparing a silane coupling agent/plant fiber composite;...