Entangled single-wall carbon nanotube solid material and methods for making same
| dc.contributor.assignee | Rice University | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | United States Patent and Trademark Office | en_US |
| dc.creator | Smalley, Richard E. | en_US |
| dc.creator | Sivarajan, Ramesh | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-04T19:05:37Z | en_US |
| dc.date.available | 2015-05-04T19:05:37Z | en_US |
| dc.date.filed | 2003-03-19 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2005-05-31 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Buckyrock is a three-dimensional, solid block material comprising an entangled network of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), wherein the block comprises greater than 75 wt % SWNT. SWNT buckyrock is mechanically strong, tough and impact resistant. The single-wall carbon nanotubes in buckyrock form are present in a random network of individual single-wall carbon nanotubes, SWNT “ropes” and combinations thereof. The random network of the SWNT or SWNT ropes can be held in place by non-covalent “cross-links” between the nanotubes at nanotube contact points. In one embodiment, SWNT buckyrock is made by forming a SWNT-water slurry, slowly removing water from the slurry which results in a SWNT-water paste, and allowing the paste to dry very slowly, such that the SWNT network of the SWNT-water paste is preserved during solvent evaporation. Buckyrock can be used in applications, such as ballistic protection systems, involving light-weight material with mechanical strength, toughness and impact resistance. | en_US |
| dc.digitization.specifications | This patent information was downloaded from the US Patent and Trademark website (http://www.uspto.gov/) as image-PDFs. The PDFs were OCRed for access purposes. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 13 pp | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Smalley, Richard E. and Sivarajan, Ramesh, "Entangled single-wall carbon nanotube solid material and methods for making same." Patent US6899945B2. issued 2005-05-31. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1911/79888. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.patentID | US6899945B2 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/79888 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.title | Entangled single-wall carbon nanotube solid material and methods for making same | en_US |
| dc.type | Utility patent | en_US |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | en_US |
| dc.type.genre | patents | en_US |
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