US Patent Issued to National Research Council of Canada on April 29 for "Boron nitride nanotube (BNNT)-nanoparticle composites, methods for the preparation thereof and their macroscopic assemblies" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,347, issued on April 29, was assigned to National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa).

"Boron nitride nanotube (BNNT)-nanoparticle composites, methods for the preparation thereof and their macroscopic assemblies" was invented by Keun Su Kim (Ottawa), Benoit Simard (Ottawa), Christopher Thomas Kingston (Ottawa) and Homin Shin (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to boron nitride nanotube (BNNT)-nanoparticle composites, to methods of preparing such composites and their use, for example, in metal/ceramic matrix composites and/or macroscopic assemblies. For example, the methods comprise subjecting a sourc...