US Patent Issued to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO on July 22 for "Fabrication of hydrophobic, mechanically flexible and optically transparent polyimide aerogels" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,764, issued on July 22, was assigned to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (Toronto).

"Fabrication of hydrophobic, mechanically flexible and optically transparent polyimide aerogels" was invented by Hani Naguib (Toronto), Omid Aghababaei Tafreshi (Toronto), Shahriar Ghaffari-Mosanenzadeh (North York, Canada) and Zia Saadatnia (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method of fabrication of physically crosslinked polyimide (PCPI) aerogels with significantly improved properties using no chemical crosslinker. The fabricated PCPI aerogels present high moisture resistance, hydro...