Fabrication of nanofiber ribbons and sheets

US9605363B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System · US

Inventors

• Mei Zhang · Beijing, CN
• Shaoli Fang · Richardson, US
• Ray H. Baughman · Morristown, US
• Anvar A. Zakhidov · McKinney, US
• Kenneth Ross Atkinson · Elmore, AU
• Ali E. Aliev · Dallas, US
• Sergey Li · Dallas, US
• Chris Williams · Dallas, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 25, 2015
• Grant date: Mar 28, 2017
• Expiry date: Nov 25, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/30
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Fabricating a nanofiber ribbon or sheet with a process that includes providing a primary assembly by arranging carbon nanotube nanofibers in aligned arrays, the arrays having a degree of inter-fiber connectivity, drawing the carbon nanotube nanofibers from the primary assembly into a sheet or ribbon, and depositing the sheet or ribbon on a substrate.