US Patent Issued to National Research Council of Canada on July 8 for "Copolymer-silica hybrid aerogels and methods for the preparation thereof" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,696, issued on July 8, was assigned to National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa).

"Copolymer-silica hybrid aerogels and methods for the preparation thereof" was invented by Jianping Lu (Ottawa), Zhiyi Zhang (Ottawa) and Ye Tao (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to copolymer-silica hybrid aerogels as well as methods for the preparation thereof. The methods comprise hydrolyzing a silica precursor in an organic solvent to obtain a partially polymerized silica wet gel, reacting the partially polymerized silica wet gel with a copolymer of Formula (II) to obtain a copolymer-silica hybrid wet gel, react...