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Reexamination Certificate
2006-05-23
2006-05-23
Hendrickson, Stuart (Department: 1754)
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Coated or structually defined flake, particle, cell, strand,...
Rod, strand, filament or fiber
C423S447200, C977S726000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07048999
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates generally to a method for producing self-assembled objects comprising single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and compositions thereof. In one embodiment, the present invention involves a three-dimensional structure of derivatized single-wall nanotube molecules that spontaneously form. It includes several component molecule having multiple derivatives brought together to assemble into the three-dimensional structure. In another embodiment, objects may be obtained by bonding functionally-specific agents (FSAs) groups of nanotubes into geometric structures. The bond selectivity of FSAs allow selected nanotubes of a particular size or kind to assemble together and inhibit the assembling of unselected nanotubes that may also be present.
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Colbert Daniel T.
Dai Hongjie
Guo Ting
Hafner Jason H.
Liu Jie
Garsson Ross Spencer
Hendrickson Stuart
Mickelson Edward T.
Wiiliam Marsh Rice University
Winstead Sechrest & MInick P.C.
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