15312 results about "Carbon black" patented technology

Provided are a conductive endless belt, a method of producing the same, and an image forming apparatus employing the same, the conductive endless belt having both desirable intended belt properties and surface properties, and being producible without known problems in terms of cost and quality.

A conductive endless belt 100 is used as a transfer/transport conductive endless belt for a tandem system in which the conductive endless belt is circularly driven by a drive member so as to transport a recording medium held by the belt through electrostatic attraction to four differing image forming bodies, in which the toner images are sequentially transferred onto the recording medium. The conductive endless belt 100 is composed of a belt base 101 having thereon a resin layer 102, the resin layer 102 containing an ultraviolet or electron beam curable resin. The resin layer 102 preferably contains a conductive agent, specifically carbon black.

A carbon black with organic groups in which the organic groups are linked to the black via a sulfide- and/or polysulfide bridge. Furthermore, a method of producing the black of the invention is described in which carbon black and compounds of the general formula R-Sy-R are reacted. The carbon blacks of the invention can be used as filler, UV stabilizer, conductivity black and pigment.

A carbon-containing material with organic groups, which is obtainable by reaction of the carbon-containing material with organic compounds of the general formula 1 A process for preparing the carbon-containing material according to the invention is also described. The carbon-containing materials according to the invention can be used as fillers, reinforcing fillers, UV stabilisers, conductivity carbon blacks or pigments.

An ink comprising particles of self-dispersing carbon black having at least one hydrophilic group at the surface thereof, and calcium in an aqueous medium. The ink can form images excellent in fastness properties such as water fastness and light fastness and character quality, and can be stably ejected from a recording head irrespective of printing environment.

The present invention relates to carbon-carbon composite material comprising a carbonaceous carrier and nanosize carbon structures (e.g. CNT or CNF), wherein the nanosize carbon structures are grown on the carbonaceous carrier. The carrier may be porous, as in activated carbon or consists of carbon black particles. In accordance with the invention, nanocarbon growth in the pores of porous carriers can be realized. The process for the manufacture of a this carbon-carbon-composite material comprises the steps of treating a carbonaceous carrier material with a metal-containing catalyst material, said metal being capable of forming nanosize carbon structures, and growing nanosize carbon structures by means of a CVD (chemical vapour deposition) method on the treated carrier in a gas atmosphere comprising a carbon-containing gas, followed by an optional surface modification step. This process allows optimising porosity, hydrodynamical properties and surface chemistry independently from each other, which is particularly beneficial in respect of the use of the composite for water purification. Carbon black-based composites are particularly useful for filler applications.

The present invention provides a method for carrying out high temperature thermal dissociation reactions requiring rapid-heating and short residence times using solar energy. In particular, the present invention provides a method for carrying out high temperature thermal reactions such as dissociation of hydrocarbon containing gases and hydrogen sulfide to produce hydrogen and dry reforming of hydrocarbon containing gases with carbon dioxide. In the methods of the invention where hydrocarbon containing gases are dissociated, fine carbon black particles are also produced. The present invention also provides solar-thermal reactors and solar-thermal reactor systems.

An aspect of the present invention relates to a magnetic recording medium comprising a magnetic layer comprising a ferromagnetic powder and a binder on a nonmagnetic support. A height of protrusions with a protrusion density of 0.002 protrusion/μm² or lower on a surface of the magnetic layer as measured by AFM is 40 nm or lower; a density of protrusions that are 15 nm or higher in height on the surface of the magnetic layer as measured by AFM ranges from 0.01 to 0.18 protrusion/μm²; and the protrusions that are 15 nm or higher in height include protrusions formed of carbon black and protrusions formed of a substance with a Mohs' hardness exceeding 7, and an average height of the protrusions formed of carbon black is greater than an average height of the protrusions formed of the substance with a Mohs' hardness exceeding 7.

The invention relates to an array-type compliant force sensor and a method of preparation thereof, and belongs to the technical field of a force sensor. The sensor comprises upper and lower poles which are enclosed into one piece, and a conduction macromolecule sensitive film compressed between the poles, and a front end circuit connected with the upper and lower poles through signal lines. The conduction macromolecule sensitive film primarily adopts the conduction macromolecule sensitive film having the compressive resistance effect consisting of graphitized carbon black as the conduction phase, single-component silastic as the insulation phase, and nanometer SiO2 dispersant. The upper and lower poles are a plurality of poles made on the substrate of the film by making use of flexible printed circuit board process and signal lines connected with each strip-shaped pole. The upper and lower strip-shaped poles are crossed and constitute an N*N sensitive cell array with the conduction macromolecule sensitive film. The signal lines are gathered to form led-out closely spaced cables. The invention has the characteristics of fine and thin structure, good flexibility, large range, high precision and high resolution.

A semiconducting composition comprising (i) an olefinic polymer and (ii) about 25 to about 45 percent by weight, based on the weight of the composition, of a carbon black having the following properties: (a) a particle size of at least about 29 nanometers; (b) a tint strength of less than about 100 percent; (c) a loss of volatiles at 950 degrees C in a nitrogen atmosphere of less than about 1 weight percent based on the weight of the carbon black; (d) a DBP oil absorption of about 80 to about 300 cubic centimeters per 100 grams; (e) a nitrogen surface adsorption area of about 30 to about 300 square meters per gram or an iodine adsorption number of about 30 to about 300 grams per kilogram; (f) a CTAB surface area of about 30 to about 150 square meters per gram; and (g) a ratio of property (e) to property (f) of greater than about 1.1.

The invention belongs to the technical field of rubber, and particularly relates to polyethylene rubber and a processing method thereof. The polyethylene rubber comprises following raw materials by weight: 100 parts of hyper branched polyethylene, 50-80 parts of carbon black, 2-5 parts of a peroxide crosslinking agent, 0-6 parts of zinc oxide, 0-5 parts of a lubricant, 0.3-0.5 part of an accelerant, and 0-0.2 part of sulfur. Beneficial effects of the polyethylene rubber and the processing method thereof are that: the hyper branched polyethylene (HBPE) is sulfurized by utilization of a peroxide sulfurization system, has good mechanical performances through stress-strain performance tests, and has a characteristic of high elasticity of rubber. The processing method of the polyethylene rubber is totally different from preparation methods of chlorinated polyethylene rubber and chlorosulfonated polyethylene rubber at present. The polyethylene rubber and the processing method thereof break the limit that polyethylene can be only used for making plastic products, expand the application scope of the polyethylene, and largely increase the additional value of polyethylene homopolymers.

The present invention relates to the preparation of rubber compositions for tire tread and tire sidewall component applications. A tire is provided having tread of such composition designed for relatively heavy loads such as, for example, truck tires. A tire having a sidewall of such composition is also provided. Such tire component rubber compositions are of rubber compositions reinforced with precipitated silica and selected carbon black in specified amounts and prepared with a prescribed order of addition to the rubber composition and composed of elastomers as a specific combination of natural or synthetic cis 1,4-polyisoprene rubber together with cis 1,4-polybutadiene rubber or with a combination of cis 1,4-polybutadiene rubber and trans 1,4-polybutadiene rubber.

An interpenetrating network assembly with a network of connected flakes of nano-scale crystalline carbon and nano-scale particles of an electroactive material interconnected with the carbon flakes is provided. The network assemblies are particularly suited for energy storage applications that use metal oxide electroactive materials and a single charge collector or a source and drain. Interpenetrating networks of graphene flakes and metal oxide nanosheets can form independent pathways between source and drain. Nano-scale conductive materials such as metal nanowires, carbon nanotubes, activated carbon or carbon black can be included as part of the conductive network to improve charge transfer.

Compositions comprising graphene sheets. at least one reinforcing agent, and at least one rubber. The compositions may further comprise carbon black. The compositions may be formed into articles including tire components.

A method for increasing the hardness of silica/rubber mixtures is disclosed wherein the method comprises blending with said mixture at least one silane and a hardness-increasing amount of at least one member selected from the group consisting of thixotropic fumed silica; precipitated silica; an MQ resin wherein Q is SiO_4/2, M is R¹R²R³SiO_1/2, and R¹, R², and R³ are the same or different functional or non-functional organic groups; carbon black; a thermoplastic resin; and a thermosetting resin.

Silica coated carbon blacks are disclosed and can be prepared by coating a fine dispersion of carbon black, such as a carbon black having an attached organic group(s). Compositions and articles of manufacture, including elastomeric compositions, containing such carbon black are also disclosed.

The invention provides an oxidized grapheme/carbon black rubber nanocomposite and preparation method thereof, which belongs to the field of rubber nanocomposite technology. The nanocomposite comprises the following basic compositions by mass: 100 parts of diene series rubber matrix, 0.5-5 parts of oxidized grapheme, 30-70 parts of hard carbon black of average particle size 11-30nm, 1-10 parts of plasticizer, 6-10 parts of activator, 0.5-4 parts of anti-aging agent, 1-4 parts of sulfuration promoter and 1-6 parts of insoluble sulphur; oxidized grapheme modifier. The oxidized grapheme powder is dispersed in deionized water for ultrasound, and a natural rubber emulsion is added, and masterbatch after flocculation, washing and drying is mixed uniformly with other additives, after sulfuration, the product is obtained. The oxidized grapheme/carbon black rubber nanocomposite has the advantages of excellent processing performance and obviously reduced dynamic themogenesis, thereby improving the usage life of tyre.

A film pressure sensitive resistor comprises conductive particles such as carbon black, a binder such as polyester resin, and spherical elastic particles having an average particle diameter of 2 mum to 50 mum, and further has average surface roughness of 0.1 mum to 3 mum, a peak-to-peak concavo-convex period of 10 mum to 1000 mum, and an elastic modulus of 800 MPa to 8000 MPa so as to have reliable quality, and excellent environmental resistance, and durability to repeated use (depressing).

An electric double layer capacitor includes, contained in a casing, an electrolyte, a positive electrode and a negative electrode each being an electrode containing carbon black, to form an electric double layer at the interface with the electrolyte, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. At least one electrode of the positive electrode and the negative electrode has protruded portions or bent portions formed continuously in the height direction against the bottom face of the casing. Further, a space due to the height of the protruded portions or the bent portions is formed between the at least one electrode and the separator.

The invention discloses a method for recovering Al, Fe and Li in waste lithium iron phosphate battery positive pieces through an acid-alkali leaching process. The method comprises the following steps: dismounting the lithium iron phosphate battery positive pieces, dissolving the positive pieces by using an alkali, filtering, and dissolving obtained filter residues by a mixed acid solution for making Fe exist in an iron phosphate precipitate form and be separated from impurities comprising carbon black and the like and a lithium-containing solution; adding the lithium-containing solution to a 95DEG C saturated sodium carbonate solution for precipitation to obtain lithium carbonate; and adding an acid to obtain an iron-containing precipitate for leaching iron ions, and adding an alkaline solution to obtain Fe(OH)3. Al, Fe and Li in the waste lithium iron phosphate battery positive pieces are simply and effectively recovered through using low-concentration acids and alkalis and routine chemicals, and raw materials having economic benefits are recovered through using simple and effective equipment and the method.

The invention discloses a method for recovering and recycling waste lithium ion battery cathode material, belonging to the fields of lithium ion battery material preparation and recycling use of waste resources. The method has the technical proposal with the key points as follows: the recovered waste batteries are sorted, cathode waste material (after being sorted) which is stripped to remove the shell and generated in the production process of the lithium ion battery is directly crushed and ground, and then processed by the procedures such as aluminum removing, acid dipping, copper extracting, chemical purification and the like under different conditions, so that byproduct materials such as aluminum hydroxide, carbon black, graphite, copper sulphate and the like are generated; reaction products are added with precipitator with certain concentration for liquid-phase precipitation and then added with lithium source, so that cathode material can be generated in the high temperature environment. The technical proposal successfully realizes the valuable constituent recovery and cathode material regeneration of the waste lithium ion battery cathode material.

Porous and/or curved nanofiber bearing substrate materials are provided having enhanced surface area for a variety of applications including as electrical substrates, semipermeable membranes and barriers, structural lattices for tissue culturing and for composite materials, production of long unbranched nanofibers, and the like. A method of producing nanofibers is disclosed including providing a plurality of microparticles or nanoparticles such as carbon black particles having a catalyst material deposited thereon, and synthesizing a plurality of nanofibers from the catalyst material on the microparticles or nanoparticles. Compositions including carbon black particles having nanowires deposited thereon are further disclosed.

The invention concerns reinforcement additives consisting of oligomeric and/or polymeric sulfur-containing organoorganooxysilanes, perhaps other unsaturated hydrocarbon-containing organoorganooxysilanes and reinforcing semiactive, active, and/or highly active carbon blacks, common in rubber, their production, and the use of the additives in perhaps silicatically filled vulcanizable rubber mixtures and compositions and in plastic mixtures or in carbon black dispersions.

A polymeric composition containing at least one polymer and carbon nanotubes is described. The polymeric composition can have carbon nanotubes that are multi-wall carbon nanotubes and/or single-wall carbon nanotubes. The compositions can also contain carbon black. Also described are various articles made from the polymeric compositions including cables and other articles.

A novel composition of matter comprises carbon black as a catalyst support for the growth of carbon nanotubes that directly adhere to the carbon black. When the composition of matter is mixed in plastic, oil, water, rubber, etc., the carbon nanotubes are carried as part of the carbon black aggregates and remain in intimate contact. A method of producing the composition of matter also is disclosed.

The invention discloses carbon nano tube electric conduction slurry and a preparation method and the application of the carbon nano tube electric conduction slurry. The carbon nano tube electric conduction slurry is composed of, by mass, 2% to 10% of electric conduction function body, 0.2% to 5% of dispersing agent and 85% to 97.8% of solvent. The electric conduction function body is spherical carbon nano tube groups or spherical carbon nano tube aggregates or the combination between the spherical carbon nano tube groups or the spherical carbon nano tube aggregates and one or more of carbon black, acetylene black, carbon fibers, conductive graphite and grapheme. The preparation method comprises the steps that the electric conduction function body and the dispersing agent are added into the solvent according to the percentage to be mixed, premix is obtained, the premix is ground in a grinding machine, and the electric conduction slurry containing a plurality of spherical carbon nano tube groups with the grain size ranging from 0.1 micron to 3 microns is formed. The carbon nano tube electric conduction slurry can be used as electric conduction agents of positive electrode and negative electrode materials of a lithium battery. According to the electric conduction slurry, an electric conduction network coating base materials is easily formed, the preparation technology is simple, production efficiency is high, and the obtained carbon nano tube slurry is good in stability and long in shelf life.

The invention discloses a high-heat-conductivity rubber composite material and a preparation method of the high-heat-conductivity rubber composite material. The high-heat-conductivity rubber composite material consists of the following ingredients in parts by mass: 100 of rubber, 4 to 6 of zinc oxide, 1 to 3 of stearic acid, 1 to 2 of anti-aging agents, 40 to 60 of carbon black, 1 to 1.5 of promoters, 1 to 3 of sulphur and 50 to 170 of heat conducting agents. The manufacture method comprises the following process steps that: the rubber is added into an open mill, the zinc oxide, the stearic acid, the anti-aging agents, the promoters, the carbon black and the heat conducting agents are sequentially added after the roll recovering, and finally, the sulphur is added. After rubber materials are uniformly mixed, the thin conduction is carried out, triangle bag packing and rolling are respectively carried out for five times, and the roll distance is regulated to 1.5mm for sheet output. The material sheets are placed into a mold, the vulcanization is carried out on a flat plate vulcanization machine, the vulcanization time is 15 to 20 minutes, the vulcanization temperature is 160 to 165 DEG C, and the vulcanization pressure is 10 to 12MPa. The material disclosed by the invention has an excellent physical and mechanical property and a high heat conduction factor.

A composition comprising at least one graphene-supported metal oxide monolith, said monolith comprising a three-dimensional structure of graphene sheets crosslinked by covalent carbon bonds, wherein the graphene sheets are coated by at least one metal oxide such as iron oxide or titanium oxide. Also provided is an electrode comprising the aforementioned graphene-supported metal oxide monolith, wherein the electrode can be substantially free of any carbon-black and substantially free of any binder.

A rubber composition of improved hysteretic and physical properties which make it suitable for forming a tire tread, notably a tire tread of reduced rolling resistance, the rubber composition including carbon black having silica fixed to its surface as the majority portion of reinforcing filler and at least one functionalized diene polymer having at the end of its chain a silanol function or a polysiloxane block including a silanol end or a diene polymer modified along its chain by silanol functions.

A gas diffusion electrode and method of making the same. According to one embodiment, the electrode comprises a support layer, a first cushioning layer positioned on top of the support layer, a second cushioning layer positioned on top of the first cushioning layer, and a catalyst layer positioned on top of the second cushioning layer. The support layer is a mechanically stable, electrically-conductive, gas porous substrate, such as carbon fiber paper. The first cushioning layer, which is also gas porous, comprises a non-woven mat of electrically-conductive, chemically-inert fibers, preferably carbon nanofibers, bound together with a polymeric binder, such as polytetrafluoroethylene. The second cushioning layer is similar to the first cushioning layer, except that carbon black or a similar electrically-conductive, chemically-inert particulate material is included in addition to or instead of the fibrous material for the purpose of fine-tuning pore size.

Nanocomposites of conductive, nanoparticulate polymer and electronically active material, in particular PEDOT and LiFePO₄, were found to be significantly better compared to bare and carbon coated LiFePO₄ in carbon black and graphite filled non conducting binder. The conductive polymer containing composite outperformed the other two samples. The performance of PEDOT composite was especially better in the high current regime with capacity retention of 82% after 200 cycles. Further improvement can be obtained if the porosity of the nanocomposites is enhanced. Hence an electrode produced from a composite made of conductive, nanoparticulate polymer, electronically active material, and sacrificial polymer, wherein the sacrificial polymer has been removed leaving pores has improved electrolyte and ion diffusion properties allowing the production of thicker electrodes.