US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 27 for "Stabilization of metallic nanowire meshes via encapsulation" (New York, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,705, issued on May 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Stabilization of metallic nanowire meshes via encapsulation" was invented by Talia S Gershon (White Plains, N.Y.), Supratik Guha (Chicago), Teodor K. Todorov (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Theodore G. van Kessel (Millbrook, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for mechanically stabilizing metallic nanowire meshes using encapsulation are provided. In one aspect, a method for forming a mechanically-stabilized metallic nanowire mesh is provided which includes the steps of: forming the metallic nanowire mesh on a substrate; and coating t...