Intellectual Property Law

US Patent 7635518 - Dendritic magnetic nanostructures

Magnetic nanostructures have potential uses in high density data storage and high resolution sensors. This patent from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette teaches a method to form such nanostructures with a reduction in aggregation. Claim 1 reads:

1. A magnetic nanostructure comprised of an assembly of magnetic nanorods held together in a dendritic pattern by dipole interaction, wherein each nanorod is comprised of a chain of ferrite nanoparticles, wherein each ferrite nanoparticle is comprised of nickel ferrite, which ferrite nanoparticles are held together by magnetic forces.

Full post as published by TinytechIP on December 22, 2009 (boomark / email).