Patents Assigned to Lawrence Livermoe National Security, LLC
  • Porous materials via freeze-casting of metal salt solutions
    Patent number: 10086431
    Abstract: Disclosed here is a method for making a nanoporous material, comprising aerosolizing a solution comprising at least one metal salt and at least one solvent to obtain an aerosol, freezing the aerosol to obtain a frozen aerosol, and drying the frozen aerosol to obtain a nanoporous metal compound material. Further, the nanoporous metal compound material can be reduced to obtain a nanoporous metal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: Lawrence Livermoe National Security, LLC, National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Bagge-Hansen, Patrick G. Campbell, Jeffrey D. Colvin, Sergei Kucheyev, Thomas E. Felter