Patents by Inventor Mauricio Terrones
Mauricio Terrones has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11958038Abstract: A group of reductive 2D materials (R2D) with extended reactive vacancies and a method for making the R2D with extended reactive vacancies are provided, especially the example of the reductive boron nitride (RBN). To create defects such as vacancies, boron nitride (BN) powders are milled at cryogenic temperatures. Vacancies are produced by milling, and the vacancies can be used to reduce various metal nanostructures on RBN. Due to the thermal stability of the RBN and the enhanced catalytic performance of metal nanostructures, RBN-metals can be used for different catalysts, including electrochemical catalysts and high temperature catalysts.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Mauricio Terrones, Yu Lei, He Liu, Kazunori Fujisawa, Ana Laura Elias Arriaga, Tianyi Zhang, Rodolfo Cruz-Silva, Morinobu Endo, Xiaoxing Wang, Cynthia Guerrero-Bermea
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Publication number: 20240018273Abstract: Provided are compositions that include at least one two-dimensional layer of an inorganic compound and at least one layer of an organic compound in the form of one or more polypeptides. Methods of making and using the materials are provided. The organic layer contains one or more polypeptides, each of which have alternating repeats of crystallite-forming subsequences and amorphous subsequences. The crystallite-forming subsequences form crystallites comprising stacks of one or more ?-sheets. The amorphous subsequences form a network of hydrogen bonds. A method includes i) combining one or more polypeptides with an inorganic material and an organic solvent, and ii) depositing one or more polypeptides, the inorganic material and the organic solvent onto a substrate. These steps can be repeated to provide a composite material that is a multilayer composite material. The composite materials can be used in a wide array of textile, electronic, semi-conducting, and other applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Melik DEMIREL, Mert VURAL, Mauricio TERRONES, Yu LEI, Ibrahim Tarik OZBOLAT
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Patent number: 11739164Abstract: Provided are compositions that include at least one two-dimensional layer of an inorganic compound and at least one layer of an organic compound in the form of one or more polypeptides. Methods of making and using the materials are provided. The organic layer contains one or more polypeptides, each of which have alternating repeats of crystallite-forming subsequences and amorphous subsequences. The crystallite-forming subsequences form crystallites comprising stacks of one or more beta-sheets. The amorphous subsequences form a network of hydrogen bonds. A method includes i) combining one or more polypeptides with an inorganic material and an organic solvent, and ii) depositing one or more polypeptides, the inorganic material and the organic solvent onto a substrate. These steps can be repeated to provide a composite material that is a multilayer composite material. The composite materials can be used in a wide array of textile, electronic, semi-conducting, and other applications.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Melik Demirel, Mert Vural, Mauricio Terrones, Yu Lei, Ibrahim Tarik Ozbolat
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Publication number: 20220387990Abstract: Embodiments relate to a bioagent capture and identification system including a microfluidic platform for label-free, size-based capture, enrichment, and optical profiling of bioagents using vertically aligned carbon nanotubes coated in gold nanoparticles. Bioagent identification can be automated using machine learning. Captured bioagents remain viable after capture and analysis. In the nanotube fabrication process, catalyst precursor layers are fabricated using patterned stamps. In addition, nanotube diameter and density are increased by increasing the concentration of metal content in the catalyst precursor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Yin-Ting Yeh, Mauricio Terrones
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Publication number: 20210370271Abstract: A group of reductive 2D materials (R2D) with extended reactive vacancies and a method for making the R2D with extended reactive vacancies are provided, especially the example of the reductive boron nitride (RBN). To create defects such as vacancies, boron nitride (BN) powders are milled at cryogenic temperatures. Vacancies are produced by milling, and the vacancies can be used to reduce various metal nanostructures on RBN. Due to the thermal stability of the RBN and the enhanced catalytic performance of metal nanostructures, RBN-metals can be used for different catalysts, including electrochemical catalysts and high temperature catalysts.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Mauricio Terrones, Yu Lei, He Liu, Kazunori Fujisawa, Ann Laura Elias Arriaga, Tianyi Zhang, Eduardo Cruz-Silva, Moronobu Endo, Xiaoxing Wang
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Publication number: 20210302287Abstract: The invention provides enrichment platform devices for size-based capture of particles in solution. The enrichment platform device is useful for label-free capture of any particle. The invention relates to enrichment platform devices using nanowires and vertically aligned carbon nanotubes. The invention provides methods for making the enrichment platform devices. The invention provides methods for using the enrichment platform devices for filtering particles, capturing particles, concentrating particles, and releasing viable particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Siyang Zheng, Mauricio Terrones, Yin-Ting Yeh, Yi Tang, Huaguang Lu, Nestor Perea Lopez, Yiqiu Xia
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Patent number: 11022529Abstract: The invention provides enrichment platform devices for size-based capture of particles in solution. The enrichment platform device is useful for label-free capture of any particle. The invention relates to enrichment platform devices using nanowires and vertically aligned carbon nanotubes. The invention provides methods for making the enrichment platform devices. The invention provides methods for using the enrichment platform devices for filtering particles, capturing particles, concentrating particles, and releasing viable particles.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Siyang Zheng, Mauricio Terrones, Yin-Ting Yeh, Yi Tang, Huaguang Lu, Nestor Perea Lopez, Yiqiu Xia
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Publication number: 20200284706Abstract: The invention provides enrichment platform devices for size-based capture of particles in solution. The enrichment platform device is useful for label-free capture of any particle. The invention relates to enrichment platform devices using nanowires and vertically aligned carbon nanotubes. The invention provides methods for making the enrichment platform devices. The invention provides methods for using the enrichment platform devices for filtering particles, capturing particles, concentrating particles, and releasing viable particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Siyang Zheng, Mauricio Terrones, Yin-Ting Yeh, Yi Tang, Huaguang Lu, Nestor Perea Lopez, Yiqiu Xia
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Patent number: 10737960Abstract: Methods for synthesizing macroscale 3D heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube materials (such as boron doped carbon nanotube materials) and compositions thereof. Macroscopic quantities of three-dimensionally networked heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube materials are directly grown using an aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition method. The porous heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube material is created by doping of heteroatoms (such as boron) in the nanotube lattice during growth, which influences the creation of elbow joints and branching of nanotubes leading to the three dimensional super-structure. The super-hydrophobic heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube sponge is strongly oleophilic and can soak up large quantities of organic solvents and oil. The trapped oil can be burnt off and the heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube material can be used repeatedly as an oil removal scaffold.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: CSS Nanotech, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Hashim, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Mauricio Terrones
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Publication number: 20200109072Abstract: Methods for synthesizing macroscale 3D heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube materials (such as boron doped carbon nanotube materials) and compositions thereof. Macroscopic quantities of three-dimensionally networked heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube materials are directly grown using an aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition method. The porous heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube material is created by doping of heteroatoms (such as boron) in the nanotube lattice during growth, which influences the creation of elbow joints and branching of nanotubes leading to the three dimensional super-structure. The super-hydrophobic heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube sponge is strongly oleophilic and can soak up large quantities of organic solvents and oil. The trapped oil can be burnt off and the heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube material can be used repeatedly as an oil removal scaffold.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: CSS Nanotech, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Hashim, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Mauricio Terrones
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Patent number: 10598575Abstract: The invention provides enrichment platform devices for size-based capture of particles in solution. The enrichment platform device is useful for label-free capture of any particle. The invention relates to enrichment platform devices using nanowires and vertically aligned carbon nanotubes. The invention provides methods for making the enrichment platform devices. The invention provides methods for using the enrichment platform devices for filtering particles, capturing particles, concentrating particles, and releasing viable particles.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Siyang Zheng, Mauricio Terrones, Yin-Ting Yeh, Yi Tang, Huaguang Lu, Nestor Perea Lopez, Yiqiu Xia
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Publication number: 20190352430Abstract: Provided are compositions that include at least one two-dimensional layer of an inorganic compound and at least one layer of an organic compound in the form of one or more polypeptides. Methods of making and using the materials are provided. The organic layer contains one or more polypeptides, each of which have alternating repeats of crystallite-forming subsequences and amorphous subsequences. The crystallite-forming subsequences form crystallites comprising stacks of one or more beta-sheets. The amorphous subsequences form a network of hydrogen bonds. A method includes i) combining one or more polypeptides with an inorganic material and an organic solvent, and ii) depositing one or more polypeptides, the inorganic material and the organic solvent onto a substrate. These steps can be repeated to provide a composite material that is a multilayer composite material. The composite materials can be used in a wide array of textile, electronic, semi-conducting, and other applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2017Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Melik DEMIREL, Mert VURAL, Mauricio TERRONES, Yu LEI, Ibrahim Tarik OZBOLAT
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Patent number: 10421675Abstract: Methods for synthesizing macroscale 3D heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube materials (such as boron doped carbon nanotube materials) and compositions thereof. Macroscopic quantities of three-dimensionally networked heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube materials are directly grown using an aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition method. The porous heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube material is created by doping of heteroatoms (such as boron) in the nanotube lattice during growth, which influences the creation of elbow joints and branching of nanotubes leading, to the three dimensional super-structure. The super-hydrophobic heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube sponge is strongly oleophilic and can soak up large quantities of organic solvents and oil. The trapped oil can be burnt off and the heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube material can be used repeatedly as an oil removal scaffold.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: CSS Nanotech, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Paul Hashim, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Mauricio Terrones
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Publication number: 20190225516Abstract: Methods for synthesizing macroscale 3D heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube materials (such as boron doped carbon nanotube materials) and compositions thereof. Macroscopic quantities of three-dimensionally networked heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube materials are directly grown using an aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition method. The porous heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube material is created by doping of heteroatoms (such as boron) in the nanotube lattice during growth, which influences the creation of elbow joints and branching of nanotubes leading to the three dimensional super-structure. The super-hydrophobic heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube sponge is strongly oleophilic and can soak up large quantities of organic solvents and oil. The trapped oil can be burnt off and the heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube material can be used repeatedly as an oil removal scaffold.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: CSS NANOTECH, INC.Inventors: Daniel Paul HASHIM, Pulickel M. AJAYAN, Mauricio TERRONES
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Patent number: 10319825Abstract: A TMD system in which the first layered material is made of heterobilayers or multilayers with semiconducting direct band gaps is provided. The first layered material may be made of multiple layers of different TMD with different stackings, exhibiting smaller direct and indirect band gaps smaller than monolayer systems of TMD.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Humberto Terrones, Mauricio Terrones, Ana Laura Elias, Nestor Perea-Lopez
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Patent number: 10294133Abstract: Methods for synthesizing macroscale 3D heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube materials (such as boron doped carbon nanotube materials) and compositions thereof. Macroscopic quantities of three-dimensionally networked heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube materials are directly grown using an aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition method. The porous heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube material is created by doping of heteroatoms (such as boron) in the nanotube lattice during growth, which influences the creation of elbow joints and branching of nanotubes leading to the three dimensional super-structure. The super-hydrophobic heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube sponge is strongly oleophilic and an soak up large quantities of organic solvents and oil. The trapped oil can be burnt off and the heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube material can be used repeatedly as an oil removal scaffold.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2012Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: CSS NANOTECH, INC.Inventors: Daniel Paul Hashim, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Mauricio Terrones
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Patent number: 9988313Abstract: We provide a method for the in situ development of graphene containing silicon carbide (SiC) matrix ceramic composites, and more particularly to the in situ graphene growth within the bulk ceramic through a single-step approach during SiC ceramics densification using an electric current activated/assisted sintering (ECAS) technique. This approach allows processing dense, robust, highly electrical conducting and well dispersed nanocomposites having a percolated graphene network, eliminating the handling of potentially hazardous nanostructures. Graphene/SiC components could be used in technological applications under strong demanding conditions where good electrical, thermal, mechanical and/or tribological properties are required, such as micro and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS), sensors, actuators, heat exchangers, breaks, components for engines, armors, cutting tools, microturbines or microrotors.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Pilar Miranzo, Carmen Ocal, Maria Isabel Osendi, Manuel Belmonte, Cristina Ramirez, Benito Roman-Manso, Humberto R. Gutierrez, Mauricio Terrones
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Publication number: 20180040704Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein that provide a TMD system wherein the first layered material is made of heterobilayers or multilayers with semiconducting direct band gaps. The first layered material may be made of multiple layers of different TMD with different stackings, exhibiting smaller direct and indirect band gaps smaller than monolayer systems of TMD.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2017Publication date: February 8, 2018Applicant: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Humberto Terrones, Mauricio Terrones, Ana Laura Elias, Nestor Perea-Lopez
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Patent number: 9806164Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein that provide a TMD system wherein the first layered material is made of heterobilayers or multilayers with semiconducting direct band gaps. The first layered material may be made of multiple layers of different TMD with different stackings, exhibiting smaller direct and indirect band gaps smaller than monolayer systems of TMD.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Humberto Terrones, Mauricio Terrones, Ana Laura Elias, Nestor Perea-Lopez
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Publication number: 20170038285Abstract: The invention provides enrichment platform devices for size-based capture of particles in solution. The enrichment platform device is useful for label-free capture of any particle. The invention relates to enrichment platform devices using nanowires and vertically aligned carbon nanotubes. The invention provides methods for making the enrichment platform devices. The invention provides methods for using the enrichment platform devices for filtering particles, capturing particles, concentrating particles, and releasing viable particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Siyang Zheng, Mauricio Terrones, Yin-Ting Yeh, Yi Tang, Huaguang Lu, Nestor Perea Lopez, Yiqiu Xia