US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on Oct. 28 for "Amorphous silica/cubic Co 3 O 4 /cubic NiO/C nanocomposite and method of preparation thereof" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,466, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Amorphous silica/cubic Co 3 O 4 /cubic NiO/C nanocomposite and method of preparation thereof" was invented by Babiker Yagoub Elhadi Abdulkhair (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Ehab Abdelhamed Abdelrahman Ahmed (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amorphous silica/cubic Co3O4/cubic NiO/C nanocomposite material includes an amorphous Si phase, a cubic Co3O4 phase and a cubic NiO phase. Further, the amorphous silica/cubic Co3O4/cubic NiO/C nanocomposite material has a granular morphology with an average grain size in a ...