Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Graphene/graphite polymer composite foam derived from emulsions stabilized by graphene kinetic trapping
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Application No.: US15447524Application Date: 2017-03-02
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Publication No.: US10832828B2Publication Date: 2020-11-10
- Inventor: Douglas H. Adamson , Steven Woltornist , Andrey V. Dobrynin
- Applicant: University of Connecticut
- Applicant Address: US CT Farmington
- Assignee: University of Connecticut
- Current Assignee: University of Connecticut
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Farmington
- Agency: McCarter & English, LLP
- Main IPC: H01B1/12
- IPC: H01B1/12 ; B82Y30/00 ; H01B1/04 ; B01J20/26 ; B01J20/28 ; B01J20/32 ; B01J20/20 ; B01J20/30 ; C08J9/12 ; C08J9/36 ; C09D5/24 ; C09D165/00 ; C09K3/32 ; C09K5/14

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides advantageous graphene/graphite stabilized composites (e.g., graphene/graphite stabilized emulsion-templated foam composites), and improved methods for fabricating such graphene/graphite stabilized composites. More particularly, the present disclosure provides improved methods for fabricating pristine, graphene/graphite/polymer composite foams derived from emulsions stabilized by graphene/graphite kinetic trapping. In exemplary embodiments, the present disclosure provides that, instead of viewing the insolubility of pristine graphene/graphite as an obstacle to be overcome, it is utilized as a means to create or fabricate water/oil emulsions, with graphene/graphite stabilizing the spheres formed. These emulsions are then the frameworks used to make foam composites that have shown bulk conductivities up to about 2 S/m, as well as compressive moduli up to about 100 MPa and breaking strengths of over 1200 psi, with densities as low as about 0.25 g/cm3.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170178762A1 Graphene/Graphite Polymer Composite Foam Derived from Emulsions Stabilized by Graphene Kinetic Trapping Public/Granted day:2017-06-22
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