公开(公告)号：US12098506B1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-24

申请号：US18442895

申请日：2024-02-15

Applicant: KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY

Inventor： Chawki Awada ,  Mohd Al Saleh Al Othoum ,  Mohammed Ibrahim Albossed

IPC: D21C3/02 ,  D21C9/16 ,  D21H11/12 ,  D21H27/06

CPC classification number: D21C3/022 ,  D21C9/163 ,  D21H5/0077 ,  D21H11/12

Abstract: A method of forming glass-like sheets using date palm seeds is provided. The method includes milling date palm seeds to form a powder. The powder is compressed to form discs, after which the discs are immersed in a delignification solution followed by removal from the delignification solution and washing. The discs formed from the date palm seed powder are immersed in a bleaching solution until a change in color is observed from opaque to transparent. The transparent discs thus formed are then hardened through application of an epoxy resin. The initial grinding procedure may be substituted by an initial slicing step of the date palm seeds in a similar method of forming the glass-like sheets.