| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7338542 |
Designed cellular coal |
March 4, 2008 |
| Coal-based cellular products that can be custom designed to have integral stiffeners or load paths, directed heat transfer paths, and/or directed mass transfer paths and methods for their production are described. Such design and production is made possible by the appropriate selection o |
| 7306635 |
Designed cellular coal |
December 11, 2007 |
| Coal-based cellular products that can be custom designed to have integral stiffeners or load paths, directed heat transfer paths, and/or directed mass transfer paths and methods for their production are described. Such design and production is made possible by the appropriate selection o |
| 6899970 |
Electrochemical cell electrodes comprising coal-based carbon foam |
May 31, 2005 |
| Coal based carbon foams that are produced by the controlled beating of coal particulate in a mold and under a non-oxidizing atmosphere and subsequently graphitized have been found to provide excellent electrode materials for electrochemical cell applications. |
| 6869455 |
Carbon foam abrasives |
March 22, 2005 |
| The incorporation or blending of from about 1 to about 10% by volume of a "carbide precursor" powder, preferably on the order of <100 microns in size, with a coal particulate starting material and the subsequent production of carbon foam in accordance with the method described herein, |
| 6861151 |
Reinforced designed cellular coal |
March 1, 2005 |
| Coal-based cellular products that can be custom designed to have integral stiffeners or load paths, directed heat transfer paths, and/or directed mass transfer paths and methods for their production are described. Such design and production is made possible by the appropriate selection o |
| 6860910 |
Carbon foam abrasives |
March 1, 2005 |
| The incorporation or blending of from about 1 to about 10% by volume of a "carbide precursor" powder, preferably on the order of <100 microns in size, with a coal particulate starting material and the subsequent production of carbon foam in accordance with the method described herein, |
| 6833011 |
Activated, coal-based carbon foam |
December 21, 2004 |
| An ablation resistant, monolithic, activated, carbon foam produced by the activation of a coal-based carbon foam through the action of carbon dioxide, ozone or some similar oxidative agent that pits and/or partially oxidizes the carbon foam skeleton, thereby significantly increasing its |
| 6656239 |
Blended pitch/coal based carbon foams |
December 2, 2003 |
| According to the present invention, carbon foams are produced largely in accordance with the methods described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/902,828, but with starting materials that comprise from about 10 to about 90% by weight of ground petroleum pitch and from about 90 to abo |
| 6656238 |
Coal-based carbon foam |
December 2, 2003 |
| A method for the manufacture of coal-based carbon foams from a coal particulate starting material that comprises blending from 1 to about 10% by weight of pitch with the coal particulate before foaming. Blends of coal-based particulate with 1 to about 10% by weight of pitch as well as |
