Abstract: A composite that includes a reaction injection molded matrix into which carbon fibrils have been incorporated, and a molding composition suitable for preparing such a composite. The invention also features a composite that includes a premix in which carbon fibrils have been incorporated into a resin matrix, and the molded product of the premix.
Abstract: This invention relates to rigid porous carbon structures and to methods of making same. The rigid porous structures have a high surface area which are substantially free of micropores. Methods for improving the rigidity of the carbon structures include causing the nanofibers to form bonds or become glued with other nanofibers at the fiber intersections. The bonding can be induced by chemical modification of the surface of the nanofibers to promote bonding, by adding “gluing” agents and/or by pyrolyzing the nanofibeirs to cause fusion or bonding at the interconnect points.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 9, 2000
Date of Patent:
August 13, 2002
Assignee:
Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
Inventors:
Howard Tennent, David Moy, Chun-Ming Niu
Abstract: Improved fuel compositions containing carbon nanotubes in from 0.01% to 30.0% by weight of fuel have improved burn rate and other valuable properties. Improved lubricant compositions containing carbon nanotubes in from 0.01 to 20.0% by weight of lubricant have improved viscosity and other valuable properties.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 15, 2002
Publication date:
July 25, 2002
Applicant:
Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
Inventors:
David Moy, Chunming Niu, Howard Tennent, Robert Hoch
Abstract: A process for preparing carbon fibrils by contacting a source of carbon with a supported catalyst that includes at least one multivalent transition metal having a size of about 35 to 700 A deposited on an inorganic substrate having a size of up to about 400 microns.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 26, 2001
Date of Patent:
July 23, 2002
Assignee:
Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
Inventors:
W. Harry Mandeville, Larry K. Truesdale, Howard Tennent
Abstract: Improved fuel compositions containing carbon nanotubes in from 0.01% to 30.0% by weight of fuel have improved bum rate and other valuable properties. Improved lubricant compositions containing carbon nanotubes in from 0.01 to 20.0% by weight of lubricant have improved viscosity and other valuable properties.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 16, 2001
Date of Patent:
July 16, 2002
Assignee:
Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
Inventors:
David Moy, Chunming Niu, Howard Tennent, Robert Hoch
Abstract: A method of oxidizing the surface of carbon microfibers that includes contacting the microfibers with an oxidizing agent that includes sulfuric acid and potassiaum chlorate under reaction conditions sufficient to oxidize the surface. The invention also features a method of decreasing the length of carbon microfibers that includes contacting the microfibers with an oxidizing agent under reaction conditions sufficient to decrease the length.
Abstract: Graphitic nanofibers, which include tubular fullerenes (commonly called “buckytubes”), nanotubes and fibrils, which are functionalized by chemical substitution, are used as electrodes in electrochemical capacitors. The graphitic nanofiber based electrode increases the performance of the electrochemical capacitors.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 1, 1999
Date of Patent:
July 2, 2002
Assignee:
Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc
Inventors:
Howard Tennent, David Moy, Chun-Ming Niu
Abstract: A composite that includes an elastomer matrix into which carbon fibrils are incorporated. The fibrils are characterized as having a morphology consisting of tubes that are free of a continuous thermal carbon overcoat and have graphitic layers that are substantially parallel to the fibril axis, or as having a crystalline graphitic structure and a morphology defined by a fishbone-like arrangement of the graphite layers along the fibril axis.
Abstract: A process for preparing carbon fibrils by contacting a source of carbon with a supported catalyst that includes at least one multivalent transition metal having a size of about to 700 A deposited on an inorganic substrate having a size up to about 400 microns.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 6, 1995
Date of Patent:
April 23, 2002
Assignee:
Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
Inventors:
W. Harry Mandeville, Larry K. Truesdale, Howard Tennent
Abstract: A fibril aggregate that includes a multiplicity of carbon fibrils whose longitudinal axes have substantially the same relative orientation, each of the fibrils characterized as having graphitic layers that are substantially parallel to its longitudinal axis and being free of a continuous thermal carbon overcoat, and a method of preparing such aggregates.
Abstract: A process for preparing carbon fibrils by contacting a source of carbon with a supported catalyst that includes at least one multivalent transition metal having a size of about 35 to 700 A deposited on an inorganic substrate having a size of up to about 400 microns.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 26, 2001
Publication date:
November 1, 2001
Applicant:
Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
Inventors:
W. Harry Mandeville, Larry K. Truesdale, Howard Tennent
Abstract: An improved catalyst for producing carbon fibrils is made by incorporating an effective yield-enhancing amount of a carboxylate into a fibril-forming catalyst. Alternatively, such a catalyst is made by coprecipitating a compound of a metal having fibril-forming catalytic properties and an aluminum and/or magnesium compound, optionally in the presence of carbon particles or carbon fibril aggregates. The catalyst may also be made by incorporating a compound of a fibril-forming metal onto magnesia particles in carbon particles or carbon fibril aggregates. The catalysts, methods of using them to form carbon fibrils and those carbon fibrils are also disclosed.
Abstract: An improved catalyst for producing carbon fibrils is made by incorporating an effective yield-enhancing amount of a carboxylate into a fibril-forming catalyst. Alternatively, such a catalyst is made by coprecipitating a compound of a metal having fibril-forming catalytic properties and an aluminum and/or magnesium compound, optionally in the presence of carbon particles or carbon fibril aggregates. The catalyst may also be made by incorporating a compound of a fibril-forming metal onto magnesia particles in carbon particles or carbon fibril aggregates. The catalysts, methods of using them to form carbon fibrils and those carbon fibrils are also disclosed.
Abstract: An improved battery having an anode, a cathode that includes a chemically reducible material into which is incorporated an amount of electrically conductive carbon microfibers sufficient to enhance the electrical conductivity of said chemically reducible material, and an electrolyte.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 31, 1995
Date of Patent:
June 19, 2001
Assignee:
Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
Inventors:
Stephen O. Friend, Jaspard Harvey Atkins, Howard G. Tennent, Robert Hausslein
Abstract: This invention concerns composite materials comprising a plurality of carbon fibrils in a matrix wherein the carbon fibrils are each characterized by a substantially constant diameter between about 3.5 to 70 nanometers and are substantially free of pyrolytically deposited thermal carbon.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 5, 1995
Date of Patent:
May 22, 2001
Assignee:
Hyperion Catalysis International
Inventors:
Howard G. Tennent, James J. Barber, Robert Hoch
Abstract: A process for producing hollow, single-walled carbon nanotubes by catalytic decomposition of one or more gaseous carbon compounds by first forming a gas phase mixture carbon feed stock gas comprising one or more gaseous carbon compounds, each having one to six carbon atoms and only H, O, N, S or Cl as hetero atoms, optionally admixed with hydrogen, and a gas phase metal containing compound which is unstable under reaction conditions for said decomposition, and which forms a metal containing catalyst which acts as a decomposition catalyst under reaction conditions; and then conducting said decomposition reaction under decomposition reaction conditions, thereby producing said nanotubes.
Abstract: Graphitic nanotubes, which includes tubular fullerenes (commonly called “buckytubes”) and fibrils, which are functionalized by chemical substitution or by adsorption of functional moieties. More specifically the invention relates to graphitic nanotubes which are uniformly or non-uniformly substituted with chemical moieties or upon which certain cyclic compounds are adsorbed and to complex structures comprised of such functionalized fibrils linked to one another. The invention also relates to methods of introducing functional groups onto the surface of such fibrils.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 8, 1994
Date of Patent:
March 20, 2001
Assignee:
Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
Inventors:
Alan Fisher, Robert Hoch, David Moy, Chunming Niu, Naoya Ogata, Howard Tennent, Thomas McCarthy
Abstract: Composite electrodes including carbon nanofibers (fibrils) and an electrochemically active material are provided for use in electrochemical capacitors. The fibril composite electrodes exhibit high conductivity, improved efficiency of active materials, high stability, easy processing, and increase the performance of the capacitor. A method for producing the composite electrodes for use in electrochemical capacitors is also provided.
Abstract: An electrically conductive polymer composition comprises a moldable organic polymer having hollow carbon microfibers and an electrically conductive white powder uniformly dispersed therein, the carbon fibers being present in an amount of 0.01 wt. % to less than 2 wt. % and the electrically conductive white powder being present in an amount of 2.5-40 wt. %, each percent range based on the total weight of the composition, the amounts of carbon microfibers and white powder being sufficient to simultaneously impart the desired electrical conductivity to the composition and white pigmentation to the composition.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 19, 1998
Date of Patent:
February 6, 2001
Assignees:
Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
Abstract: Electrochemiluminescent assay methods for determining an analyte of interest, which methods include forming one or more compositions which include, in the aggregate, (a) a sample to be tested for the analyte of interest, (b) a component capable of specifically binding with the analyte, (c) a label reagent which, when oxidized, is capable of electrochemiluminescence, (d) an amine which, when oxidized, forms a reducing agent, and (e) an electrolyte solution; subjecting such a composition containing the sample to conditions sufficient for specific binding to occur between the analyte of interest, if present, and one or more of the other components in the composition; thereafter, a composition containing the label reagent and amine, and reflecting the outcome of applying the aforementioned binding conditions, is exposed to conditions, such that both the label reagent and the amine are oxidized, the amine forms a reducing agent which interacts with the label reagent, electrochemiluminescence occurs, and the lumine
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 15, 1994
Date of Patent:
December 26, 2000
Assignee:
Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
Inventors:
Jonathan Kent Leland, Michael Joseph Powell