Intellectual Property Law

US Patent 7510695 - Patterned nanotube growth

This patent originating from Richard Smalley's group at Rice University has an early priority (1997) and teaches a basic method for patterning arrays of carbon nanotubes on a substrate. Claim 1 reads:

1. A method for forming a macroscopic array of fullerene nanotubes, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) providing an array of microwells on a substrate;

(b) depositing a metal catalyst in at least some of said microwells; and

(c) directing a stream of hydrocarbon or CO feedstock gas at said substrate under conditions that effect growth of fullerene nanotubes from the deposited catalyst.

Full post as published by TinytechIP on March 31, 2009 (boomark / email).