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- Patent Title: Graphene/graphite polymer composite foam derived from emulsions stabilized by graphene/graphite kinetic trapping
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Application No.: US14724499Application Date: 2015-05-28
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Publication No.: US09646735B2Publication Date: 2017-05-09
- 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: H01B1/04
- IPC: H01B1/04 ; C01B31/04 ; C08F2/22 ; H01B1/12

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.
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