Composite materials systems

US11352481B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• LYTEN, INC. · US

Inventors

• Michael W. Stowell · Sunnyvale, US
• Bryce H. Anzelmo · Mountain View, US
• Bruce Lanning · Littleton, US
• Daniel Cook · Woodside, US
• Elena Rogojina · San Jose, US
• Karel Vanheusden · Albuquerque, US
• Margaret Hines · Clifton Park, US
• John Baldwin · San Jose, US
• Chandra B. KC · San Jose, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 6, 2020
• Grant date: Jun 7, 2022
• Expiry date: Oct 10, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01J2237/338
• WIPO field: Macromolecular chemistry, polymers
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Methods include producing tunable carbon structures and combining carbon structures with a polymer to form a composite material. Carbon structures include crinkled graphene. Methods also include functionalizing the carbon structures, either in-situ, within the plasma reactor, or in a liquid collection facility. The plasma reactor has a first control for tuning the specific surface area (SSA) of the resulting tuned carbon structures as well as a second, independent control for tuning the SSA of the tuned carbon structures. The composite materials that result from mixing the tuned carbon structures with a polymer results in composite materials that exhibit exceptional favorable mechanical and/or other properties. Mechanisms that operate between the carbon structures and the polymer yield composite materials that exhibit these exceptional mechanical properties are also examined.