126results about "Material nanotechnology" patented technology

Process, apparatus, compositions and application modes are provided that relate to nanofiber spinning without the use of superacids in the spinning solution. The methods employ either acids or bases for a flocculation solution. The advances disclosed therein enable the use of nanofibers, including carbon nanotubes, for a variety of applications including, but not limited to, electromechanical actuators, supercapacitors, electronic textiles, and in devices for electrical energy harvesting.

Disclosed is a nano-composite material comprising fully separated nano-scaled graphene platelets (NGPs) dispersed in a matrix material, wherein each of the platelets comprises a sheet of graphite plane or multiple sheets of graphite plane and has a thickness no greater than 100 nm and the platelets have an average length, width, or diameter no greater than 500 nm. The graphene plates are present in an amount no less than 15% by weight based on the total weight of the platelets and the matrix material combined. Typically, the nanocomposite is electrically conductive with a bulk conductivity no less than 10 S/cm and more typically no less than 100 S/cm. Highly conductive NGP nanocomposites are particularly useful for fuel cell flow field plate (bipolar plate) and battery electrode applications. Nanocomposites with high NGP proportions can be used in automotive friction plates and aircraft brake components.

Fine wirings are made by a method having the steps of painting a board with metal dispersion colloid including metal nanoparticles of 0.5 nm-200 nm diameters, drying the metal dispersion colloid into a metal-suspension film, irradiating the metal-suspension film with a laser beam of 300 nm-550 nm wavelengths, depicting arbitrary patterns on the film with the laser beam, aggregating metal nanoparticles into larger conductive grains, washing the laser-irradiated film, eliminating unirradiated metal nanoparticles, and forming metallic wiring patterns built by the conductive grains on the board. The present invention enables an inexpensive apparatus to form fine arbitrary wiring patterns on boards without expensive photomasks, resists, exposure apparatus and etching apparatus. The method can make wirings also on plastic boards or low-melting-point glass boards which have poor resistance against heat and chemicals.

The object of the present invention is provide a metal nanoparticle which has a nano-sized average diameter while being highly stable as a particle, and a method for producing such metal nanoparticle. Particularly provides a metal nanoparticle having characteristics such as particle diameter and particle size distribution suitable for forming a conductive coating layer, and a method for producing such metal nanoparticle. The metal nanoparticle of the present invention is characterized in that it is obtained by reacting a reducing agent act on a solution containing an organic acid metal salt and an amine.

There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect, present invention is directed to a thin film or wafer encapsulated MEMS, and technique of fabricating or manufacturing a thin film or wafer encapsulated MEMS employing the anti-stiction techniques of the present invention. In one embodiment, after encapsulation of the MEMS, an anti-stiction channel is formed thereby providing “access” to the chamber containing some or all of the active members or electrodes of the mechanical structures of the MEMS. Thereafter, an anti-stiction fluid (for example, gas or gas-vapor) is introduced into the chamber via the anti-stiction channel. The anti-stiction fluid may deposit on one, some or all of the active members or electrodes of the mechanical structures thereby providing an anti-stiction layer (for example, a monolayer coating or self-assembled monolayer) and/or out-gassing molecules on such members or electrodes. After introduction and/or application of the anti-stiction fluid, the anti-stiction channel may be sealed, capped, plugged and/or closed to define and control the mechanical damping environment within the chamber. In this regard, sealing, capping and/or closing the chamber establishes the environment within the chamber containing and/or housing the mechanical structures. This environment provides the predetermined, desired and/or selected mechanical damping of the mechanical structure as well as suitable hermeticity. The parameters (for example, pressure) of the final encapsulated fluid (for example, a gas or a gas vapor) in which the mechanical structures are to operate may be controlled, selected and/or designed to provide a desired and/or predetermined operating environment.

The present invention relates to electrochemical storage devices, such as supercapacitors, batteries, etc., and more particularly to such devices that comprise an electrochemically active coaxial nanowire. The invention particularly concerns such devices in which the coaxial nanowire comprises an inner core of a transition metal oxide and an axially surrounding outer shell composed of an electroconductive organic polymer, such as poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT). The invention particularly relates to a facile method for achieving the self-assembly of such coaxial nanowires.

Using thin-films of iron oxide as the active material of electrodes, supercapacitors are fabricated on various substrates in different shapes. By chemical oxidation the iron-oxide film is formed directly and conformably on the substrates in a short period of cooking. The iron oxide has a chemical composition of Fe.sub.x O.sub.y H.sub.z, where 1.0.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.3.0, 0.0.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.4.0, and 0.0.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.1.0. Substrates, as the current collector, tested includes Al, Ti, Fe, Cu and Ni. Measurements by cyclic voltammetry indicates that the iron-oxide electrodes in a selected electrolyte can store charges as high as 0.5 F/cm.sup.2 or 417 F/g of the electrode materials. Supercapacitors as prepared are economical and can be used as enclosure housings for portable electronics, power tools, and batteries. The supercapacitors can also be integrated with the frames and chassis of electric vehicles.

A method for manufacturing high-quality single-walled carbon nanotubes on a glass substrate at relatively low temperatures includes: depositing a buffer layer on a glass substrate; depositing a catalytic metal on the buffer layer; placing the glass substrate having the catalytic metal formed thereon in a vacuum chamber and generating H₂O plasma inside the vacuum chamber; and supplying a source gas into the vacuum chamber and growing a carbon nanotube on the glass substrate.

Provided are peptidomimetic protein-binding arrays, their manufacture, use, and application. The protein-binding array elements of the invention include a peptidomimetic segment linked to a solid support via a stable anchor. The invention contemplates peptidomimetic array element library synthesis, distribution, and spotting of array elements onto solid planar substrates, labeling of complex protein mixtures, and the analysis of differential protein binding to the array. The invention also enables the enrichment or purification, and subsequent sequencing or structural analysis of proteins that are identified as differential by the array screen. Kits including proteomic microarrays in accordance with the present invention are also provided.

The invention discloses magnetically fluorescent bifunctional microsphere and a preparation method thereof. The nanometer microspheres with the magnetically fluorescent function are obtained mainly by wrapping the surfaces of magnetic nanoparticles with polyaniline macromolecules and successfully connecting fluorescent nanometer material quantum dots through functional amino groups at the terminals of the polyaniline macromolecules. The magnetically fluorescent nanometer microspheres have the excellent fluorescence characteristics of the quantum dots and the superparamagnetism of the magnetic particles and can be collected and separated through a simple applied magnetic field. The magnetically fluorescent bifunctional microspheres can be applied to the fields of immunodetection, targeted therapy, cellular seperation and the like.

The present invention provides a series of methods, compositions, and articles for patterning a surface with multiple, aligned layers of molecules, by exposing the molecules to electromagnetic radiation. In certain embodiments, a single photomask acts as an area-selective filter for light at multiple wavelengths. A single set of exposures of multiple wavelengths through this photomask may make it possible to fabricate a pattern comprising discontinuous multiple regions, where the regions differ from each other in at least one chemical and/or physical property, without acts of alignment between the exposures. In certain embodiments, the surface includes molecules attached thereto that can be photocleaved upon exposure to a certain wavelength of radiation, thereby altering the chemical composition on at least a portion of the surface. In some embodiments, the molecules attached to the surface may include thiol moieties (e.g., as in alkanethiol), by which the molecule can become attached to the surface. In some embodiments, the molecules may be terminated at the unattached end with photocleavable groups. In other embodiments, a molecule that was photocleaved may be exposed to another molecule that binds to the photocleaved molecule. In certain cases, the molecules may be terminated at the unattached end with hydrophilic groups that may, for example, be resistant to the adsorption of proteins. In other cases, the molecules may be terminated at the unattached end with end groups that are not resistant to the adsorption of proteins. In certain embodiments, the techniques are used to pattern simultaneously two different regions that are resistant to the adsorption of proteins, and a third region that does not resist the adsorption of proteins.

The invention provides a manufacturing method of micrometer and nanometer composite spherical metal powder of a core-shell structure. The manufacturing method comprises the steps that 1, a composite metal powder precursor is prepared; 2, the prepared composite metal powder precursor is evenly mixed with carbon material powder or ceramic material powder; 3, one or more kinds of metal in the composite metal precursor is molten through high-temperature treatment, after solidification, composite metal spheres of a core-shell structure are formed, wherein the temperature of high-temperature treatment at least reaches the melting temperature of one kind of metal in the composite metal precursor, and particularly the temperature is 400-1000 DEG C higher than the melting point of the kind of metal; 4, the carbon material powder or the ceramic material powder are removed, so that the micrometer and nanometer composite spherical metal powder of the core-shell structure is formed. The size of the composite metal powder precursor is smaller than 10 mm, and the optimal size of the composite metal powder precursor ranges from 50 nm to 1 mm. The degree of sphericity of composite metal spheres of the core-shell structure is high, and the composite metal spheres of the core-shell structure can be widely applied to powder metallurgy and conductive slurry.

The present invention relates to an infrared reflecting black pigment which comprises a composite oxide containing Fe, Co and at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Al, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ti, Zn, Sn, Zr, Si and Cu; has an average plate surface diameter of 0.02 to 5.0 μm, a blackness (L* value) of not more than 30, an average reflectance of not more than 10% in a visible light wavelength range of 250 to 780 nm and an average reflectance of not less than 35% in an infrared wavelength range of 780 to 2500 nm. There is provided an infrared reflecting black pigment which is capable of producing a heat-shielding paint containing no harmful elements and exhibiting an excellent infrared reflecting property.

An electrode comprises a conductor and an electrode coating, said electrode coating comprising as electronically active material a transition metal (T) oxidenitride of formula Li_xT^I_mT^II_nN_yO_z form of nanoparticles, wherein x=0-3, y+z=2-4, y>0, z>=0.25, m+n=1, m=0-1, n=0-1, T^I and T^II both being transition metals of the groups IVB, VB, VIB and VIIB, and periods 3d, 4d and 5d, in particular transition metals selected from Zr, Nb, Mo, Ti, V, Cr, W, Mn, Ni, Co, Fe and Cu. Dependent on the kind of transition metal, its oxidation state and the Li content, such materials may be used as anode materials or as cathode materials, respectively.

A micro cell fuel cell using a nano porous structure according to a thin film process and an anodizing process as a template for implementing a porous structure of an electrode, its fabrication method, and a micro fuel cell stack using the same are disclosed. The micro-fuel cell includes a solid electrolyte and first and second electrodes separately formed on the electrolyte, wherein at least one of the first and second electrodes is supported by a template having a plurality of nano pores formed by depositing, anodizing and etching a thin film, and is a porous electrode with nano pores formed at positions corresponding to the entirety or a portion of the plurality of nano pores formed on the template. The micro-fuel cell can be fabricated based on the thin film process, and unit cells can be highly integrated to implement a micro-fuel cell system generating a high voltage and a high current.

Devices, methods and systems for low volume microarray processing are disclosed. The microarray devices preferably include a plurality of reactant sites on a reactant surface. The reactant sites include reactants that operate to capture one or more selected analytes that can then be detected based on an electromagnetic signal, e.g., fluorescence, that is emitted by each analyte in response to excitation energy incident on the microarray device. Mixing and/or distribution of the analyte sample over the reactant surface is accomplished by tilting the reactant surface such that the analyte sample flows over the reactant surface under the force of gravity. The tilting is performed such that a portion of the analyte sample accumulates in a bead along a first edge of the reactant surface. The reactant surface is then tilted in a different direction such that a portion of the analyte sample flows over the reactant surface and accumulates at a second edge. The reactant surface preferably generates sufficient capillary forces with the analyte sample such that the analyte sample is retained on the reactant surface. The tilting and resultant flow may be performed as many times as necessary to obtain the desired mixing and/or distribution of analyte sample over the reactant surface.

The invention relates to a method for preparing graphene load nano silver-nickel alloy composite powder materials. The method aims to solve the problems that graphene load nano silver-nickel alloy composite materials prepared in the prior art are nonuniform in scattering and poor in chemical stability. The method comprises the first step of intercalation and expansion, the second step of stripping and the third step of the preparation of the graphene load nano silver-nickel alloy composite powder materials. Oxidized graphene is prepared through an oxidation-reduction method, then the oxidized graphene, silver ions and nickel ions are mixed and restored through reducing agents to obtain the graphene nano silver-nickel alloy composite materials, the method is simple and fast, any surface dressing agent does not need to be added, and alloy particles on the surface of the graphene are uniform in distribution and stable in chemical performance. The method is used for preparing the graphene load nano silver-nickel alloy composite powder materials.

A novel carbon nanotube powder containing carbon nanotubes which have a roll-like structure, also novel carbon nanotubes having a roll-like structure, novel processes for the production of the carbon nanotube powders and of the carbon nanotubes, and their use as an additive or substrate for various applications are described.

The invention provides a CDs-Pt nanomaterial with catalase catalytic properties. The CDs-Pt nanomaterial shows good enzyme-like catalytic activity in an acetate buffer solution using TMB as a substrate. The CDs-Pt nanomaterial provided by the invention belongs to the field of catalytic material and mimic enzyme research, and the obtained CDs-Pt nanomaterial has the characteristics that carbon quantum dots are modified by precious metal platinum, the synthetic steps are simple, the material scale is small, and the CDs-Pt nanomaterial has good dispersion in a reaction system, and has broad prospect in actual application such as hydrogen peroxide detection and glucose detection.

Provided are a microfluidic chip for multiple bioassay and a method of manufacturing the same. The method includes: forming microfluidic channels by coupling a channel structure having grooves for sample channels and probe channels in a bottom surface and a substrate; forming probe immobilization regions at intersections between the probe channels and the sample channels; and forming blocking walls in the probe channels before and after each of the probe immobilization regions to prevent mixing of target sample. Since the probes are immobilized in the microfluidic channels after the formation of the microfluidic channels, difficulty in connecting fluidic channels after the immobilization of probes on a substrate can be removed. In addition, a microfluidic platform for a multiple bioassay into which a plurality of samples can be simultaneously loaded can be formed.

The present invention relates to a coating composition containing metal oxide particles with a high refractive index and low photocatalytic activity and a coating film obtained by applying the coating composition onto a substrate. The coating composition contains metal oxide particles with a high refractive index obtained by coating the specific fine particles of the titanium-based oxide on their surfaces with at least a silica-based oxide or a silica-based composite oxide, and the coating film is obtained by applying the coating composition onto a substrate. The metal oxide particles with not only a high refractive index but also low photocatalytic activity, and therefore a coating film with excellent weathering resistance and light resistance can be formed on a substrate.

A process for forming a nano-composite including mixing a first and second thermoplastic polymer in a molten state forming a molten polymer blend. The second polymer is soluble in a first solvent and the first polymer is insoluble in the first solvent. The first polymer forms discontinuous regions in the second polymer. Next, the polymer blend is subjected to extensional flow, shear stress, and heat forming nanofibers where less than about 30% by volume of the nanofibers are bonded to other nanofibers.

Next the polymer blend with nanofibers is cooled and the first intermediate is formed into a pre-consolidation formation. The pre-consolidation formation is then consolidated causing nanofiber movement, randomization, and at least 70% by volume of the nanofibers to fuse to other nanofibers. According to one aspect, the second intermediate is then subjected to the first solvent to the dissolving away at least a portion of the second polymer.