Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Interwoven carbon nanotube mats
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Application No.: US15390602Application Date: 2016-12-26
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Publication No.: US10227719B2Publication Date: 2019-03-12
- Inventor: Keith Daniel Humfeld
- Applicant: The Boeing Company
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: Duft & Bornsen, PC
- Main IPC: B32B9/00
- IPC: B32B9/00 ; D05B19/12 ; C01B32/16 ; C01B32/174 ; C23C16/26 ; C01B32/162 ; B82Y30/00

Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for stitching together sheets of interwoven carbon nanotubes. One embodiment is a method that includes providing multiple sheets of interwoven carbon nanotubes, arranging the sheets over a substrate such that interstices of the sheets overlap at a stitch region of the substrate and heating catalysts at the substrate above a threshold temperature to trigger growth of new carbon nanotubes. The method also includes adjusting alignment of an electrical field that defines a direction of growth of the new carbon nanotubes, thereby causing the new carbon nanotubes to grow through the interstices and then stitch the sheets together.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170283263A1 INTERWOVEN CARBON NANOTUBE MATS Public/Granted day:2017-10-05
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