| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7575733 |
Plasma-treated carbon fibrils and method of making same |
August 18, 2009 |
| A method of treating carbon fibrils and carbon fibril structures such as assemblages, aggregates and hard porous structures with a plasma to effect an alteration of the surface or structure of the carbon fibril or fibrils. The method can be utilized to functionalize, prepare for func |
| 7498013 |
Plasma-treated carbon fibrils and method of making same |
March 3, 2009 |
| A method of treating carbon fibrils and carbon fibril structures such as assemblages, aggregates and hard porous structures with a plasma to effect an alteration of the surface or structure of the carbon fibril or fibrils. The method can be utilized to functionalize, prepare for func |
| 7413723 |
Methods of oxidizing multiwalled carbon nanotubes |
August 19, 2008 |
| Methods of oxidizing multiwalled carbon nanotubes are provided. The multiwalled carbon nanotubes are oxidized by contacting the carbon nanotubes with gas-phase oxidizing agents such as CO.sub.2, O.sub.2, steam, N.sub.2O, NO, NO.sub.2, O.sub.3, and ClO.sub.2. Near critical and supercr |
| 7396798 |
Method for preparing catalyst supports and supported catalysts from single walled carbon nanotub |
July 8, 2008 |
| A new method for preparing a supported catalyst is herein provided. A carbon nanotube structure such as a rigid porous structure is formed from single walled carbon nanotubes. A metal catalyst is then loaded or deposited onto the carbon nanotube structure. The loaded carbon nanotube |
| 7393475 |
Polyvinylidene fluoride composites and methods for preparing same |
July 1, 2008 |
| An electrically conductive composite comprising a polyvinylidene fluoride polymer or copolymer and carbon nanotubes is provided. Preferably, carbon nanotubes may be present in the range of about 0.5-20% by weight of the composite. The composites are prepared by dissolving the polymer in |
| 7056452 |
Polyvinylidene fluoride composites and methods for preparing same |
June 6, 2006 |
| An electrically conductive composite comprising a polyvinylidene fluoride polymer or copolymer and carbon nanotubes is provided. Preferably, carbon nanotubes may be present in the range of about 0.5 20% by weight of the composite.The composites are prepared by dissolving the polymer in a |
| 7052861 |
Graphitic nanotubes in luminescence assays |
May 30, 2006 |
| Graphitic nanotubes, which include tubular fullerenes (commonly called "buckytubes") and fibrils, which are functionalized by chemical substitution, are used as solid supports in electrogenerated chemiluminescence assays. The graphitic nanotubes are chemically modified with functiona |
| 6828282 |
Lubricants containing carbon nanotubes |
December 7, 2004 |
| Improved fuel compositions containing carbon nanotubes in from 0.01% to 30.0% by weight of fuel have improved burn rate and other valuable properties. Improved lubricant compositions containing carbon nanotubes in from 0.01 to 20.0% by weight of lubricant have improved viscosity and |
| 6783702 |
Polyvinylidene fluoride composites and methods for preparing same |
August 31, 2004 |
| An electrically conductive composite comprising a polyvinylidene fluoride polymer or copolymer and carbon nanotubes is provided. Preferably, carbon nanotubes may be present in the range of about 0.5-20% by weight of the composite.The composites are prepared by dissolving the polymer in a |
| 6419717 |
Carbon nanotubes in fuels |
July 16, 2002 |
| Improved fuel compositions containing carbon nanotubes in from 0.01% to 30.0% by weight of fuel have improved bum rate and other valuable properties. Improved lubricant compositions containing carbon nanotubes in from 0.01 to 20.0% by weight of lubricant have improved viscosity and o |
| 6362011 |
Graphitic nanotubes in luminescence assays |
March 26, 2002 |
| Graphitic nanotubes, which include tubular fullerenes (commonly called "buckytubes") and fibrils, which are functionalized by chemical substitution, are used as solid supports in electrogenerated chemiluminescence assays. The graphitic nanotubes are chemically modified with functiona |
| 6203814 |
Method of making functionalized nanotubes |
March 20, 2001 |
| Graphitic nanotubes, which includes tubular fullerenes (commonly called "buckytubes") and fibrils, which are functionalized by chemical substitution or by adsorption of functional moieties. More specifically the invention relates to graphitic nanotubes which are uniformly or non-unif |
| 6159892 |
Catalyst supports, supported catalysts and methods of making and using the same |
December 12, 2000 |
| A supported catalyst comprising a carbon fibril aggregate and a catalytically effective amount of a catalyst supported therein, a process for performing a catalytic reaction in fluid phase using the supported catalyst and a process for making the supported catalyst are disclosed. |
| 6113819 |
Three dimensional interpenetrating networks of macroscopic assemblages of oriented carbon fibril |
September 5, 2000 |
| The invention relates to an interpenetrating network of carbon fibrils and a polymer, which comprises a rigidized, three-dimensional macroscopic assemblage of a multiplicity of randomly oriented carbon fibrils and an innerpenetrating mass of an organic polymer. The invention also relates |
| 5968650 |
Three dimensional interpenetrating networks of macroscopic assemblages of randomly oriented carb |
October 19, 1999 |
| The invention relates to an interpenetrating network of carbon fibrils and a polymer, which comprises a rigidized, three-dimensional macroscopic assemblage of a multiplicity of randomly oriented carbon fibrils and an innerpenetrating mass of an organic polymer. The invention also relates |
| 5879836 |
Lithium battery with electrodes containing carbon fibrils |
March 9, 1999 |
| A lithium battery characterized in that the anode (1) is formed from a carbon fibril material comprised of an aggregate of fibrils or non-aggregated mass of fibrils having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 100 microns in which fine, filiform carbon fibrils of 3.5 to 75 nm an in |
| 5866434 |
Graphitic nanotubes in luminescence assays |
February 2, 1999 |
| Graphitic nanotubes, which include tubular fullerenes (commonly called "buckytubes") and fibrils, which are functionalized by chemical substitution, are used as solid supports in electrogenerated chemiluminescence assays. The graphitic nanotubes are chemically modified with functiona |
| 5569635 |
Catalyst supports, supported catalysts and methods of making and using the same |
October 29, 1996 |
| A supported catalyst comprising a carbon fibril aggregate and a catalytically effective amount of a catalyst supported therein, a process for performing a catalytic reaction in fluid phase using the supported catalyst and a process for making the supported catalyst are disclosed. |
| 5152844 |
Degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls |
October 6, 1992 |
| Polychlorinated biphenyls are chemically degraded by contact with a Lewis acid catalyst in a nonaqueous liquid medium, in the presence of a cation which combines the chlorines on the PCBs to form a solid chloride of the cation which will precipitate out from the liquid medium. Preferred |
| 5149444 |
Process for the decontamination of soils, sediments, and sludges |
September 22, 1992 |
| A method for the decontamination of a soil, sediment, or sludge containing toxic halogenated organic compound and containing water comprising the steps of mixing said soil, sediment, or sludge with a reagent capable of reacting with said halogenated compound and heating said mixture of s |
| 5096600 |
Method for decontaminating soils |
March 17, 1992 |
| A method for substantially degrading and detoxifying soils contaminated with haloorganic compounds is shown. The method comprises contacting a soil, sediment, or sludge containing less that 5% by weight of a haloorganic contaminant, with a reagent of the formula MX, where M is a meta |
