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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7442568 | Method to fabricate combined UV light emitter and phosphor for white light generation A method of forming carbon nanotubes includes incorporating phosphors in the form of quantum dots, along with the beads of ZnO on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to generate white light. The ability to form a high density of quantum dots in a small volume allows for a high ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7439562 | Process for modifying at least one electrical property of a nanotube or a nanowire and a transistor incorporating it The present invention concerns a method for modyfing at least an electronic property of a carbon nanotube or nanowire comprising exposing said nanotube or nanowire to an acid having the formula (I) wherein R1, R2 and R3 are chosen in... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7419650 | Method for the production of functionalised short carbon nanotubes and functionalised short carbon nanotubes obtainable by said method The present invention is related to a method for producing functionalised short carbon nanotubes with at least one open tip by mechanical treatment of long carbon nanotubes, wherein said long nanotubes are submitted to mechanical milling forces in the presence of a ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7413723 | Methods of oxidizing multiwalled carbon nanotubes Methods of oxidizing multiwalled carbon nanotubes are provided. The multiwalled carbon nanotubes are oxidized by contacting the carbon nanotubes with gas-phase oxidizing agents such as CO2, O2, steam, N2O, NO, NO2, O3... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7402295 | Oxyfullerene hollow nanospheres and process for the preparation thereof A novel oxyfullerene hollow nanosphere of CxOyMnz (45≦x≦72, 18≦y≦42, 7≦z≦16; x, y and z are atomic percentages) has a large surface area and high thermal stability, and can be simply prepared by reacting fullerene with al... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7384815 | Process for attaching molecular wires and devices to carbon nanotubes and compositions thereof The present invention is directed towards processes for covalently attaching molecular wires and molecular electronic devices to carbon nanotubes and compositions thereof. Such processes utilize diazonium chemistry to bring about this marriage of wire-like nanotubes... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7344691 | System and method for manipulating nanotubes A system and method for manipulation of nanotubes using an organic material that is presented to the nanotubes. Exemplary types of manipulation include cutting nanotubes into shortened nanotubes, dispersing nanotubes, enabling dissolution of nanotubes, and noncovale... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7300860 | Integrated circuit with metal layer having carbon nanotubes and methods of making same A method of fabricating an integrated circuit comprises forming or providing a solution containing carbon nanotubes and forming a metal layer utilizing the solution. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7288238 | Single-wall carbon nanotube alewives, process for making, and compositions thereof The present invention involves alewives of highly aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), process for making the same and compositions thereof. The present invention provides a method for effectively making carbon alewives, which are discrete, acicular-shaped a... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7276283 | Plasma-enhanced functionalization of carbon-containing substrates Methods for producing plasma-treated, functionalized carbon-containing surfaces are provided. The methods include the steps of subjecting a carbon-containing substrate to a plasma to create surface active sites on the surface of the substrate and reacting the surfac... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7271079 | Method of doping a gate electrode of a field effect transistor A method of fabricating a structure and fabricating related semiconductor transistors and novel semiconductor transistor structures. The method of fabricating the structure includes: providing a substrate having a top surface; forming an island on the top surface of... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7261924 | Method of coating a substrate with a polymer having a combination of crown ether and carbon nanotubes having guanidine groups Disclosed herein is a method of forming a guanidine group on carbon nanotubes to improve the dispersibility of carbon nanotubes, a method of attaching carbon nanotubes having guanidine groups to a substrate, and carbon nanotubes and a substrate manufactured by the a... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7253119 | Passivated nanoparticles, method of fabrication thereof, and devices incorporating nanoparticles A plurality of semiconductor nanoparticles having an elementally passivated surface are provided. These nanoparticles are capable of being suspended in water without substantial agglomeration and substantial precipitation on container surfaces for at least 30 days. ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7250147 | Process for derivatizing carbon nanotubes with diazonium species The invention incorporates new processes for the chemical modification of carbon nanotubes. Such processes involve the derivatization of multi- and single-wall carbon nanotubes, including small diameter (ca. 0.7 nm) single-wall carbon nanotubes, with diazonium speci... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7217404 | Method of transforming carbon nanotubes A method of transforming a carbon single wall nanotube (SWNT) is provided. The method comprises exposing the SWNT to light having a power sufficient to ignite or reconstruct the SWNT such that the SWNT is ignited or reconstructed by the exposure to the light. ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7161168 | Superlattice nanopatterning of wires and complex patterns Fabrication of metallic or non-metallic wires with nanometer widths and nanometer separation distances without the use of lithography. Wires are created in a two-step process involving forming the wires at the desired dimensions and transferring them to a planar sub... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7147894 | Method for assembling nano objects A method for the self assembly of a macroscopic structure with a pre-formed nano object is provided. The method includes processing a nano object to a desired aspect ratio and chemical functionality and mixing the processed nano object with a solvent to form a suspe... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7122165 | Sidewall-functionalized carbon nanotubes, and methods for making the same The invention provides a method of functionalizing the sidewalls of a plurality of carbon nanotubes with oxygen moieties, the method comprising: exposing a carbon nanotube dispersion to an ozone/oxygen mixture to form a plurality of ozonized carbon nanotubes; and co... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7091096 | Method of fabricating carbon nanotube field-effect transistors through controlled electrochemical modification The invention relates to a method of fabricating a structure with field-effect transistors each comprising a source electrode, a drain electrode, a channel extending between the source and drain electrodes and at least one gate electrode associated with the channel ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6699525 | Method of forming carbon nanotubes and apparatus therefor Carbon nanotubes are formed on a substrate by providing a coiled filament in a chemical vapor deposition chamber, supporting a substrate having a catalytic coating provided thereon inside the coiled filament, evacuating air, if present, from the chamber, ... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6692324 | Single self-aligned carbon containing tips Systems and methods are described for a single self-aligned carbon nanofiber emitters within a dielectric well. A method, includes: providing a substrate; defining lithographically a catalyst particle, the catalyst particle coupled to the substrate; depos... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6669823 | Process for preparing nanostructured materials of controlled surface chemistry A process to prepare stoichiometric-nanostructured materials comprising generating a plasma, forming an "active volume" through introduction of an oxidizing gas into the plasma, before the plasma is expanded into a field-free zone, either (1) in a region ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6656339 | Method of forming a nano-supported catalyst on a substrate for nanotube growth Methods of forming a nano-supported catalyst on a substrate and at least one carbon nanotube on the substrate are comprised of configuring a substrate with an electrode (102), immersing the substrate with the electrode into a solvent containing a first me... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6649672 | Binding agents modified by nanoparticles for coating agents and use of the same Binders suitable for coating compositions, obtainable by reaction of one or more epoxy-functional binders with carboxyl-functional nanoparticles, and coating compositions containing them and the use thereof.... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6645628 | Carbon nanotube coated anode A vacuum tube having its anode/collector coated with carbon nanotube-based material in which five percent or more of the carbon nanotubes are aligned parallel to the anode/collector's surface.... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6616497 | Method of manufacturing carbon nanotube field emitter by electrophoretic deposition A method of manufacturing a carbon nanotube field emitter for field emission displays by electrophoresis is disclosed. The method of manufacturing involves: first, loading an electrode plate and the field emitter substrate, which are spaced apart from one... | 09/09/2003 |
