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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7438888 | Molybdenum oxide nano-particles Molybdenum oxide nano-particles. The nano-particles may be made by vaporizing the precursor material to produce a vapor; directing the vapor into an isolation chamber; contacting the vapor contained in the isolation chamber with a quench fluid stream to precipitate ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438887 | Manganese oxide nanowires, films, and membranes and methods of making Nanowires, films, and membranes comprising ordered porous manganese oxide-based octahedral molecular sieves, and methods of making, are disclosed. A single crystal ultra-long nanowire includes an ordered porous manganese oxide-based octahedral molecular sieve, and h... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7422790 | Methods of processing nanocrystals, and compositions, devices and systems including same Methods of processing nanocrystals to remove excess free and bound organic material and particularly surfactants used during the synthesis process, and resulting nanocrystal compositions, devices and systems that are physically, electrically and chemically integrata... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7422730 | Nanoporous ultrafine α-alumina powders and sol-gel process of preparing same The present invention provides α-alumina powders comprising α-alumina particles of which at least 80% of the α-alumina particles have a particle size of less than 100 nm. The invention also provides slurries, particularly aqueous slurries, which comprise α-alumi... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7416784 | Functional infrared fluorescent particle An infrared fluorescent particle comprising a functional group or a substance that is capable of binding to an analyte, wherein fluorescence at infrared wavelength is emitted from the particle upon exposure of the particle to excitation light at infrared wavelength.... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7410912 | Methods of manufacturing metal oxide nanowires Metal oxide nanowires are being investigated to make nanodevices and nanosensors. High operation temperatures or vacuum is required in the manufacturing of metal oxide nanowires by existing vapor phase evaporation methods. This invention provides a method of manufac... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7410625 | Process of making metal containing iron oxide and iron sulfide based nanoparticle materials A method and structure for making magnetite nanoparticle materials by mixing iron salt with alcohol, carboxylic acid and amine in an organic solvent and heating the mixture to 200-360° C. is described. The size of the particles can be controlled either by changing ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7407604 | Nanostructured re-doped SiO-base fluorescent materials and methods for production of same A new class of nanostructured RE-doped SiO2-base materials that display superior fluorescence properties is provided. In particular, high gain combined with a broad and flat spectral band width is observed in material composed of a high fraction of a nano... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7402506 | Methods of making thin film transistors comprising zinc-oxide-based semiconductor materials and transistors made thereby A thin film transistor comprises a zinc-oxide-containing semiconductor material. Such transistors can further comprise spaced apart first and second contact means or electrodes in contact with said material. Further disclosed is a process for fabricating a thin film... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7399459 | Method for manufacturing mesoporous alumina molecular sieve and alumina nanotube and use of the alumina nanotube for storage of H2 A mesoporous alumina molecular sieve and a method of manufacturing a mesoporous alumina mesoporous alumina molecular sieve of the invention is produced without using traditionally used additives. Also, because the size and distribution of the pores can be controlled... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7390568 | Semiconductor nanocrystal heterostructures having specific charge carrier confinement A semiconductor nanocrystal heterostructure has a core of a first semiconductor material surrounded by an overcoating of a second semiconductor material. Upon excitation, one carrier can be substantially confined to the core and the other carrier can be substantiall... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7368097 | Preparation of nanocrystalline lithium titanate spinels Process for preparing nanocrystalline lithium titanate spinels by reacting lithium hydroxide and a titanium alkoxide at elevated temperature in a reaction mixture which forms water of reaction. ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368086 | Functionalized fluorescent nanocrystals, and methods for their preparation and use Functionalized fluorescent nanocrystal compositions and methods for making and using these compositions are disclosed. The compositions are fluorescent nanocrystals coated with at least one material. The coating material has chemical compounds or ligands with functi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7357910 | Method for producing metal oxide nanoparticles Method for producing metal oxide nanoparticles. The method includes generating an aerosol of solid metallic microparticles, generating plasma with a plasma hot zone at a temperature sufficiently high to vaporize the microparticles into metal vapor, and directing the... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7348054 | Substrate coated with a composite film, method for making same and uses thereof This substrate is coated with a composite film based on a mesoporous mineral layer containing nanoparticles formed in situ inside the layer. The composite film has a periodic lattice structure over a major portion of the thickness in which the nanoparticles are pres... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7344895 | Production and use of in situ-modified nanoparticles A process for synthesizing nanoparticles, in particular metal salt nanoparticles. To the synthesis mixture is added a modifying reagent which binds, by means of a first functional group, to the nanoparticle surface and which carries a second functional group for bin... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7323121 | Coating material The invention relates to a conductive infrared-absorbing coating material consisting of indium tin oxide. According to the invention, said coating material has a yellow index of above 15. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7306751 | Crystalline superfine particles, complex material, method of manufacturing crystalline superfine particles, inverted micelles, inverted micelles enveloping precursor superfine particles, inverted micelles enveloping crystalline superfine particles, and precursor superfine particles Crystalline superfine particles capable of emitting light depending upon a time-rate-of-change of a stress and controlled in grain size in the range from 5 nm to 100 nm are complexed with another material such as resin. The crystalline superfine particles are manufa... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7303697 | Phosphor and production process for the same The object of the present invention is to provide a phosphor which is excellent in transparency, light transmittance, luminescence efficiency and luminescent intensity and at the same time, processes for producing the phosphor. Preferred embodiments of the invention... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7303815 | Functional bimorph composite nanotapes and methods of fabrication A two-layer nanotape that includes a nanoribbon substrate and an oxide that is epitaxially deposited on a flat surface of the nanoribbon substrate is described. The oxide is deposited on the substrate using a pulsed laser ablation deposition process. The nanoribbons... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7297323 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing fine particles A method of manufacturing fine particles of the invention includes introducing a reactive gas flow containing a fine particle source material into a reactor from one side, growing fine particles in a gas phase by heating the fine particle source material in the reac... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7291299 | Nanotube, nano thermometer and method for producing the same A novel nano thermometer, which can be used for temperature measurement of a wide temperature range, in a micrometer size environment, and a method for producing the same. The nano thermometer is a carbon nanotube filled with a continuous columnar gallium, which ena... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7285261 | Preparation and application of novel chromium based nanocatalyst for gas-phase fluorination and hydrofluorination reactions A process of reacting a metal chloride, especially chromium (III) chloride, with an alkali metal oleate at a temperature of from about 30° to about 300° C., and especially at about 70±1° C., in a solvent to form a metal oleate complex, especially a chromium-olea... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7264787 | Cerium oxide powder Polycrystalline cerium oxide powder in the form of aggregates of primary particles with a specific surface of between 70 and 150 m2/g, an average primary particle diameter of between 5 and 20 nm and an average, projected aggregate diameter of between 20 a... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7255745 | Iridium oxide nanowires and method for forming same Iridium oxide (IrOx) nanowires and a method forming the nanowires are provided. The method comprises: providing a growth promotion film with non-continuous surfaces, having a thickness in the range of 0.5 to 5 nanometers (nm), and made from a material such as Ti, Co... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7247568 | Method for manufacturing a transparent element with invisible electrodes A conductive pattern, made of a transparent conductive oxide, such as ITO including electrodes (2) and conductive paths (4) is formed on one face of a transparent substrate (3) made of sapphire or toughened glass, then coated with a first layer ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7235224 | Process for preparing fine metal oxide particles Disclosed is a process for preparing fine metal oxide particles, comprising the following steps of reacting a reactant mixture comprising i) water, ii) at least one water-soluble metal nitrate and iii) ammonia or ammonium salt at 250–700° C. under 180–550 bar f... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7229600 | Nanoparticles of rare earth oxides Rare earth compositions comprising nanoparticles, methods of making nanoparticles, and methods of using nanoparticles are described. The compositions of the nanomaterials discussed may include scandium (Sc), yttrium (Y), lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7229602 | Method of preparing metal chalcogenide particles A method of preparing metal chalcogenide particles. The method comprising the step of reacting an amine and metal complex precursors. The metal complex precursors comprising a chalcogenide and an electrophilic group. The reaction forming metal chalcogenide particles... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7217407 | Plasma synthesis of metal oxide nanoparticles The present invention is a method of increasing particle surface area and decreasing the concentration of over-sized particles in a process for making metal oxide particles, particularly nanoparticle TiO2, in an inlet-fed, plug flow, plasma reactor by vap... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7214418 | Structure having holes and method for producing the same A structure having a hole, including a substrate, a first layer including an alumina hole, and a second layer disposed between the substrate and the fist layer, wherein the second layer contains silicon, and has a smaller hole than the alumina hole. ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7208135 | Preparation of mixed oxides having mean diameters of less than 10 nanometers Process for preparing mixed oxides by reacting alkoxides of the elements titanium, zirconium, niobium, tantalum or mixtures thereof with metal hydroxides, metal carboxylates, metal hydroxycarbonates, metal carbonates or mixtures thereof of the elements lithium, sodi... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7208126 | Titanium dioxide nanopowder manufacturing process Titanium dioxide nanopowder is produced by a process, comprising: (a) reacting titanium tetrachloride and an oxygen containing gas in the vapor phase in a flame reactor, at a flame temperature of at least about 800° C. in the pres... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7208134 | Bioprocesses enhanced by magnetic nanoparticles One aspect of the present invention relates to magnetic nanoparticles colloidally stabilized in aqueous milieu by association with an organic phase. The organic phase may be either a fluorinated polymer or an organic hydrocarbon bilayer, wherein the two layers are c... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7204971 | Shaped microcomponents via reactive conversion of biologically-derived microtemplates The present invention is focused on a revolutionary, low-cost (highly-scaleable) approach for the mass production of three-dimensional microcomponents: the biological reproduction of naturally-derived, biocatalytically-derived, and/or genetically-tailored three-dime... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7198773 | Synthesis of ZnO nano-structured materials and its apparatus Disclosed are a method of fabricating ZnO nanostructures and its apparatus, and more particularly, to a method of fabricating ZnO nanostructures from Zn gas, which is produced by a reduction process between ZnO powder and graphite, on a silicon substrate, wherein va... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199029 | Selective deposition of ZnO nanostructures on a silicon substrate using a nickel catalyst and either patterned polysilicon or silicon surface modification Zinc-oxide nanostructures are formed by forming a pattern on a surface of a substrate. A catalyst metal, such as nickel, is formed on the surface of the substrate. Growth of at least one zinc oxide nanostructure is induced on the catalyst metal substantially over th... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7182929 | Nanostructured multi-component and doped oxide powders and method of making same A method for producing nanostructured multi-component or doped oxide particles and the particles produced therein. The process includes the steps of (i) dissolving salts of cations, which are either dopants or components of the final oxide, in an organic solvent; (i... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7175778 | Self-aligning QCA based nanomaterials The present application is directed to the preparation and use of a class of nanoparticles called Quantum Confined Atoms or QCA's. A QCA is a particle of material comprising a plurality of host atoms in a nanoparticle of a size of less than 10 nm with a single atom ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7172747 | Metal oxide nanotube and process for production thereof Spiral shaped fibers were utilized to prepare completely novel metal oxide nanotubes comprising solely metal oxides. The metal oxide nanotubes comprise solely a hollow cylinder shaped metal oxide which may contain hydroxyl groups constituting a double helix and havi... | 02/06/2007 |
