US Patent Issued to TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY on May 27 for "Anthracene-based compound, and preparation method therefor and use thereof as solar thermal fuel" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,311, issued on May 27, was assigned to TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Taiyuan, China).

"Anthracene-based compound, and preparation method therefor and use thereof as solar thermal fuel" was invented by Wenying Li (Taiyuan, China), Xingtang Xu (Taiyuan, China), Wenjing Chen (Taiyuan, China), Chonghua Li (Taiyuan, China) and Jie Feng (Taiyuan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anthracene-based compound, and a preparation method therefor and use thereof as a solar thermal fuel are provided. The anthracene-based compound according to the present invention can be converted into a dimer under 365 nm ultraviolet irradiation and sto...