US Patent Issued to National Research Council of Canada on June 24 for "Boron nitride nanotube-silicate glass composites" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,164, issued on June 24, was assigned to National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa).

"Boron nitride nanotube-silicate glass composites" was invented by Benoit Simard (Ottawa), Yadienka Martinez-Rubi (Ottawa), Christopher Thomas Kingston (Ottawa), Keun Su Kim (Ottawa), Morag Clark-Heptinstall (Ottawa) and Maxime Gauthier (Boucherville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to boron nitride nanotube (BNNT)-silicate glass composites and to methods of preparing such composites. The methods comprise mixing BNNTs that are coated with a glass former such as boron oxide with a silicate glass precursor to crea...