Intellectual Property Law

US Patent 7897876 - CNT/graphene-enhanced electrical wire

A problem with using carbon nanotubes to form conductive wires is that the viscosity of CNT/polymer composites makes processing difficult. This patent from Boeing teaches coating instead of dispersing CNTs in a conductive wire to make processing easier. Claim 1 reads:

1. A conductor comprising:

an aramid fiber; and

at least one layer attached about said aramid fiber, said at least one layer comprising at least one of aligned carbon nanotubes and graphene platelets.

Full post as published by TinytechIP on March 02, 2011 (boomark / email).