Intellectual Property Law

US Patent 7842271 - Mass production of carbon nanostructures

This patent is from a Russian inventor and claims a more energy efficient mass production method for carbon nanotubes and other fullerene nanostructures. Claim 1 reads:

A method of preparing a composition comprising a nanostructured carbon, the method comprising:

contacting a carbonaceous starting material with an activated acid catalyst to form an activated intermediate; and

providing thermal energy to the activated intermediate to thereby forming a graphene;

wherein the activated acid catalyst comprises an acidic solution previously subjected to an electromagnetic field, electromagnetic radiation, laser irradiation, or plasma activation.

Full post as published by TinytechIP on November 30, 2010 (boomark / email).