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公开(公告)号:US20230287554A1
公开(公告)日:2023-09-14
申请号:US18197842
申请日:2023-05-16
Applicant: Lyten, Inc.
Inventor: Michael W. Stowell , Bruce Lanning , Peter Todd Williams , Daniel Cook
Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for producing covetic materials by exciting a hydrocarbon gas with pulse microwaves to form hydrocarbon radicals in a hot first region of a microwave reactor. Graphene nanoplatelets are formed by the nucleation, growth and assembly of the hydrocarbon radicals, and contact a metal melt introduced downstream of the hot region to produce a mixture of molten metal and graphene nanoplatelets which assemble in-flight to form covetic materials. Graphene planes are infused in the metal matrix to achieve carbon loadings of at least 60%.
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公开(公告)号:US11739409B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-29
申请号:US17241852
申请日:2021-04-27
Applicant: LytEn, Inc.
Inventor: Michael W. Stowell , Bruce Lanning , Peter Todd Williams , Daniel Cook
CPC classification number: C23C4/067 , H05H1/30 , H05H1/461 , B22F1/16 , B22F3/115 , B22F2007/042 , B22F2202/13 , C23C4/134
Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for producing covetic materials by exciting a hydrocarbon gas with pulse microwaves to form hydrocarbon radicals in a hot first region of a microwave reactor. Graphene nanoplatelets are formed by the nucleation, growth and assembly of the hydrocarbon radicals, and contact a metal melt introduced downstream of the hot region to produce a mixture of molten metal and graphene nanoplatelets which assemble in-flight to form covetic materials. Graphene planes are infused in the metal matrix to achieve carbon loadings of at least 60%.
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公开(公告)号:US20200263285A1
公开(公告)日:2020-08-20
申请号:US16752693
申请日:2020-01-27
Applicant: LytEn, Inc.
Inventor: Michael W. Stowell , Bruce Lanning , Peter Todd Williams , Daniel Cook
IPC: C23C4/067
Abstract: This disclosure provides a graded composition including at least a first, second, and third material property zone each having a crystallographic configuration distinct from other zones. In some implementations, the graded composition has a first material in the first material property zone including a metal, the first material composed of metallic bonds between metal atoms present in the first material property zone; a second material that at least partially overlaps the first material in the first material property zone including carbon, the second material composed of covalent bonds between the carbon in the second material and the metal in the first material; and, a third material that at least partially overlaps the second material property zone including carbon, the third material composed of covalent bonds between the carbon of the third material. Each crystallographic configuration may include a cubic crystallographic lattice, a hexagonal lattice, a face or body-centered cubic lattice.
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公开(公告)号:US20200287258A1
公开(公告)日:2020-09-10
申请号:US16847967
申请日:2020-04-14
Applicant: Lyten, Inc.
Inventor: Michael W. Stowell , Peter Todd Williams
Abstract: This disclosure relates to a reactor including an energy source configured to generate a microwave in a direction of propagation. A reaction chamber is coupled to the energy source. A waveguide disposed in the reactor includes a window positioned at an angle, such as being misaligned, relative to the direction of propagation of the microwave such that an average dielectric constant experienced by the microwave increases over a region where the window occupies a greater fraction of a cross-sectional area of the waveguide. The window includes one or more dielectric materials that have respective dielectric constants that increase along the propagation direction in a first region that is adjacent to a first face of the window, and decrease in a second region that is adjacent to a second face of the window. The dielectric materials have a mass density that varies based on one or more pores formed therein.
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公开(公告)号:US20190221909A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-18
申请号:US16247002
申请日:2019-01-14
Applicant: Lyten, Inc.
Inventor: Michael W. Stowell , Peter Todd Williams
CPC classification number: H01P1/08 , H01J37/32229 , H01J37/32238 , H01P3/12
Abstract: A pressure barrier comprising a window with a first side and a second side, a main section comprising a length, a first end, and a second end opposite the first end, a first gradient compression section adjacent to the first end of the main section, and a second gradient decompression section adjacent to the second end of the main section is described. A pressure difference can be formed between the first and second side of the window. The window can comprise a dielectric material, where an average dielectric constant of the gradient compression section increases toward the main section, and an average dielectric constant of the gradient decompression section decreases away from the main section. A microwave propagating in a propagation direction can enter the pressure barrier at the gradient compression section and exit the pressure barrier through the gradient decompression section.
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公开(公告)号:US20240150884A1
公开(公告)日:2024-05-09
申请号:US18543115
申请日:2023-12-18
Applicant: Lyten, Inc.
Inventor: Michael W. Stowell , Bruce Lanning , Peter Todd Williams , Daniel Cook
Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for producing covetic materials by exciting a hydrocarbon gas with pulse microwaves to form hydrocarbon radicals in a hot first region of a microwave reactor. Graphene nanoplatelets are formed by the nucleation, growth, and assembly of the hydrocarbon radicals, and contact a metal melt introduced downstream of the hot region to produce a mixture of molten metal and graphene nanoplatelets which assemble in-flight to form covetic materials.
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公开(公告)号:US20210310110A1
公开(公告)日:2021-10-07
申请号:US17241852
申请日:2021-04-27
Applicant: LytEn, Inc.
Inventor: Michael W. Stowell , Bruce Lanning , Peter Todd Williams , Daniel Cook
IPC: C23C4/067
Abstract: This disclosure provides a graded composition including at least a first, second, and third material property zone each having a crystallographic configuration distinct from other zones. In some implementations, the graded composition has a first material in the first material property zone including a metal, the first material composed of metallic bonds between metal atoms present in the first material property zone; a second material that at least partially overlaps the first material in the first material property zone including carbon, the second material composed of covalent bonds between the carbon in the second material and the metal in the first material; and, a third material that at least partially overlaps the second material property zone including carbon, the third material composed of covalent bonds between the carbon of the third material. Each crystallographic configuration may include a cubic crystallographic lattice, a hexagonal lattice, a face or body-centered cubic lattice.
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