Coating processes – Coating by vapor – gas – or smoke – Carbon or carbide coating
Reexamination Certificate
2007-03-13
2007-03-13
Meeks, Timothy (Department: 1762)
Coating processes
Coating by vapor, gas, or smoke
Carbon or carbide coating
C427S180000, C427S255110, C427S255230, C427S255280, C427S259000, C427S282000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10361640
ABSTRACT:
A method of controllably aligning carbon nanotubes to a template structure to fabricate a variety of carbon nanotube containing structures and devices having desired characteristics is provided. The method allows simultaneous, selective growth of both vertically and horizontally controllably aligned nanotubes on the template structure but not on a substrate in a single process step.
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Ajayan Pulickel M.
Cao Anyuan
Ganapathiraman Ramanath
Foley & Lardner LLP
Meeks Timothy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stouffer Kelly
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