Patents Assigned to Wiiliam Marsh Rice University
  • Fluorination of polymeric C
    Patent number: 7122710
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards the fluorination of polymeric C60 and towards the chemical and physical modifications of polymeric C60 that can be accomplished through fluorination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Wiiliam Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: John L. Margrave, Valery N. Khabashesku, Zhenning Gu, Valery Aleksandrovich Davydov, Aleksandra Viktorovna Rakhmanina, Lyudmile Stepanovna Kashevarova
  • Method for producing self-assembled objects comprising single-wall carbon nanotubes and compositions thereof
    Patent number: 7048999
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Wiiliam Marsh Rice University
    Inventors: Richard E. Smalley, Daniel T. Colbert, Hongjie Dai, Jie Liu, Andrew G. Rinzler, Jason H. Hafner, Kenneth A. Smith, Ting Guo, Pavel Nikolaev, Andreas Thess