US Patent Issued to The Chinese University of Hong Kong, President and Fellows of Harvard College on Nov. 4 for "Realizing the nano-amorphous state of materials inside nano-porous templates" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,602, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) and President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Realizing the nano-amorphous state of materials inside nano-porous templates" was invented by Lei Xu (Hong Kong), David Weitz (Bolton, Mass.), Zhuo Xu (Guangzhou, China) and Changliang Zhu (Yantai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject invention pertains to methods to produce amorphous materials at nanometer scale, by solidifying or hardening the materials inside nanometer-sized pores of porous media (i.e., porous templates). The porous templates can be made by packing nano...