US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on April 8 for "Nanocellulose aerogels and foams" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,935, issued on April 8, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Nanocellulose aerogels and foams" was invented by You-Lo Hsieh (Oakland, Calif.) and Feng Jiang (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for preparing an aerogel or a foam, the method comprising: forming a reaction mixture comprising a cellulose nanofibril gel, a first solvent, and one or more crosslinking agents under conditions sufficient to crosslink the gel; and contacting the crosslinked gel with a second solvent under conditions sufficient to dry the crosslinked gel, thereby for...