US Patent Issued to Nanyang Technological University on Oct. 28 for "Conducting silk-based electrodes" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,502, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Conducting silk-based electrodes" was invented by Qingsong Li (Singapore), Geng Chen (Singapore) and Xiaodong Chen (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an electrode material comprising: a non-woven silk-fibroin mesh substrate; glycerol; and a conductive polymeric material, wherein 40-65% of the silk-fibroin in the non-woven mesh substrate is in the form of Beta-sheets, and the electrode material is stretchable. Also disclosed herein is a method of forming said electrode material."

The patent was filed on June 12, 2020, und...