Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes – Pore forming in situ – Of inorganic materials
Reexamination Certificate
2006-03-21
2006-03-21
Fiorilla, Christopher A. (Department: 1731)
Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
Pore forming in situ
Of inorganic materials
C264S108000, C264S219000, C264S234000, C264S261000, C264S621000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07014799
ABSTRACT:
A low-cost, efficient method of preparing hierarchically ordered structures by filling a minimold with a microsphere-containing latex suspension, forming an close-packed array of microspheres within the minimold and filling void space in the array with a self-assembling mixture of hydrolyzed inorganic species and amphiphilic block copolymers. A macroporous and mesoporous material can be produced by subsequent thermal removal of the microspheres and copolymers.
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Chmelka Bradley
Deng Tao
Feng Pingyun
Pine David
Stucky Galen
Fiorilla Christopher A.
Fulbright & Jaworski
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