Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes – Forming continuous or indefinite length work – Layered – stratified traversely of length – or multiphase...
Reexamination Certificate
2005-09-06
2010-06-29
Del Sole, Joseph S (Department: 1791)
Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
Forming continuous or indefinite length work
Layered, stratified traversely of length, or multiphase...
C118S729000, C264S335000, C427S255280, C427S350000, C977S842000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07744793
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides apparatus and methods for growing fullerene nanotube forests, and forming nanotube films, threads and composite structures therefrom. In some embodiments, an interior-flow substrate includes a porous surface and one or more interior passages that provide reactant gas to an interior portion of a densely packed nanotube forest as it is growing. In some embodiments, a continuous-growth furnace is provided that includes an access port for removing nanotube forests without cooling the furnace substantially. In other embodiments, a nanotube film can be pulled from the nanotube forest without removing the forest from the furnace. A nanotube film loom is described. An apparatus for building layers of nanotube films on a continuous web is described.
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Lemaire Alexander B.
Lemaire Charles A.
Stordal Leif T.
Thomforde Dale J.
Del Sole Joseph S
Kennedy Timothy
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