Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment – Germ warfare agents destroyed
Reexamination Certificate
2005-08-31
2009-06-02
Mayes, Melvin C (Department: 1793)
Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment
Germ warfare agents destroyed
C588S301000, C588S306000, C502S129000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07541509
ABSTRACT:
A photocatalyst nanocomposite which can be used to destroying biological agents includes a carbon nanotube core, and a photocatalyst coating layer covalently or ionically bound to a surface of the nanotube core. The coating layer has a nanoscale thickness. A method of forming photocatalytic nanocomposites includes the steps of providing a plurality of dispersed carbon nanotubes, chemically oxidizing the nanotubes under conditions to produce surface functionalized nanotubes to provide C and O including groups thereon which form ionic or covalent bonds to metal oxides, and processing a metal oxide photocatalyst sol-gel precursor in the presence of the nanotubes, wherein a nanoscale metal oxide photocatalyst layer becomes covalently or ionically bound to the nanotubes.
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Koopman Benjamin
Krishna Vijay
Lee Sung-Hwan
Moudgil Brij
Pyrgiotakis Georgios
Akerman & Senterfitt
Gregorio Guinever S
Mayes Melvin C
University of Florida Research Foundation Inc.
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