661 results about "Carbon Nanoparticles" patented technology

A novel fluid heat transfer agent suitable for use in a closed heat transfer system, for example, wherein energy is transferred between an evaporator and a condenser in heat exchange relationship with the heat transfer agent that is caused to flow from one to the other. The novel heat transfer agent is a complex comprising a body of heat transfer fluid, for example, ethylene glycol or water, having suspended therein carbon nanoparticles in a quantity sufficient to enhance the thermal conductivity of the body of heat transfers fluid, per se. The carbon nanoparticles are selected from carbon in the form of sp2 type and sp3 type bonding and preferably comprise nanotubes or fullerenes and may have a coupling agent bonded thereto or enclosed therein when the nanotube or fullerene forms a hollow capsule. The coupling agent may be a polar organic group covalently bonded to the carbon nanoparticles and miscible in the fluid medium.

The present invention relates to processes for preparing a stable suspension of carbon nanoparticles in a thermal transfer fluid to enhance thermal conductive properties, viscosity, and lubricity. One process is to disperse carbon nanoparticles directly into a thermal transfer fluid and other additives in the present of surfactants with intermittent ultrasonication. The second process is carried out in three stages. First, carbon nanoparticles are dispersed into a volatile solvent. Then, a thermal transfer fluid, surfactants, and other additives are added into this intermediate dispersion and mixed thoroughly. At last, the volatile solvent is removed to produce a uniformly dispersed nanofluid. The third process is to disperse carbon nanoparticles at an elevated temperature into a homogeneous mixture of surfactants and other additives in a thermal transfer fluid with help of a physical agitation. The present invention also relates to compositions of carbon nanoparticle nanofluids, such as nanolubricants and nanogreases. The nanofluid of the present invention is a dispersion of carbon nanoparticles, particularly carbon nanotubes, in a thermal transfer fluid in the present of surfactants. Addition of surfactants significantly increases the stability of nanoparticle dispersion. For nanogreases, carbon nanoparticles function both as a thickener to modulate viscosity and as a solid heat transfer medium to enhance thermal conductivity and high temperature resistance.

A negative active material, a negative electrode including the negative active material, a method of manufacturing the negative electrode, and a lithium battery including the negative electrode. The negative active material includes a composite including a non-carbonaceous material, carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and carbon nanoparticles. The carbon nanoparticles are formed by carbonizing a polymer of carbonizable monomers.

A composite material composed of a matrix phase bonded by a carbon binder phase derived from sintered carbon nanoparticles such as, for example, fullerenes. The present invention further relates to a method of making such composite materials which includes the steps of dispersing a sufficient amount of carbon nanoparticles into a matrix phase, and compressing the carbon nanoparticles-containing matrix phase at a sufficient pressure and temperature over a sufficient time to facilitate the conversion of the carbon nanoparticles into a nanostructured carbon binder phase, thereby yielding the composite material.

The present invention relates to a process for preparing a stable suspension of carbon nanoparticles in a hydrophilic thermal transfer fluid to enhance thermal conductive properties and other characteristics such as freezing point of an antifreeze coolant. The process involves the step of dispersing carbon nanoparticles directly into a mixture of a thermal transfer fluid and other additives in the present of surfactants with intermittent ultrasonication. The present invention also relates to the composition of a hydrophilic nanofluid, which comprises carbon nanoparticles, particularly carbon nanotubes, a hydrophilic thermal transfer fluid, and at least one surfactant. Addition of surfactants significantly increases the stability of nanoparticle dispersion.

The present invention relates to a process of producing composite materials by a sol/gel-process, comprising carbon nanoparticles and organic polymer material. The invention further relates to composite materials, which are manufactured with the use of said sol/gel technology.

A resistive composition for screen printing onto a substrate. The resistive composition, based on total composition has a) 5-30 wt. % of polymer resin, b) greater than 0 up to and including 10 wt. % of thermosetting resin, c) 10-30 wt. % conductive particles selected from the group consisting of carbon black, graphite and mixtures thereof and d) 0.025 -20 wt. % carbon nanoparticles, wherein all of (a), (b), (c) and (d) are dispersed in a 60-80 wt. % organic solvent.

Catalytic system combining an aluminium or iron containing catalytic support, a rare earth containing porous deposit, carbon nanoparticles and a carbon containing structure making bonds between carbon nanoparticles.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a flexible super capacitor based on carbon cloth. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: firstly, growing carbon nanometer particles, carbon nanometer tubes, zinc oxides or tungsten oxide on the carbon cloth, or generating molybdenum dioxide on the carbon cloth; then, preparing manganese oxide or conductive polymers on the substances grown or generated on the carbon cloth for forming electrode materials; and finally, overlapping two electrode materials through solid electrolytes, separating the two electrode materials through a diaphragm and preparing the solid super capacitor. The flexible super capacitor prepared by the method provided by the invention has good electrochemical characteristics and the bending performance and has good application prospects in energy storage aspects.

The present invention provides micro- and nanofibers made from polymers that comprise nanoparticles, such as carbon nanoparticles and inorganic nanoparticles, and methods of making such fibers.

Highly fluorescent carbon nanoparticles (FCNs), with tunable emission colours of particle size between 1-10 nm also stable in solid form with high quantum yield (>5%) and its method of synthesis thereof yielding said carbon nanoparticles in milligram to gram scale in high synthesis yield (>80%). The present invention also provides for highly fluorescent carbon nanoparticle solution doped with heteroatom (such as oxygen, nitrogen) and its method of synthesis favoring yield of the said doped carbon nanoparticles of even smaller size ranging from 1-5 nm with narrow size distribution, and also provides for functionalized FCNs that are non-toxic, functional, soluble and stable fluorescent carbon nanoparticles with retained fluorescence for variety of end uses in biomedics, imaging applications, and detection techniques.

The present invention relates to a novel carbon nano-particle and a novel method of preparing the same and a transparent, conductive polymer composite containing the same. The carbon nano-particle has the mean diameter of 1 through 50 nm and the shape of sphere, rod or others, which is a novel material not known in the relevant art. Because of a particle size less than ½ of the shortest wavelength of a visible ray, a transparent resin containing the carbon nano-particle can maintain the transparency. Furthermore, the carbon nano-particle has the excellent electric conductivity and the ferromagnetic property, and can be made by a novel, low cost method entirely different from those of fullerene and carbon nanotube.

In some embodiments, thermoelectric apparatus and various applications of thermoelectric apparatus are described herein. In some embodiments, a thermoelectric apparatus described herein comprises at least one p-type layer coupled to at least one n-type layer to provide a pn junction, and an insulating layer at least partially disposed between the p-type layer and the n-type layer, the p-type layer comprising a plurality of carbon nanoparticles and the n-type layer comprising a plurality of n-doped carbon nanoparticles.

The present invention relates to compositions of a nanofluid, which comprises a thermal transfer fluid and carbon nanoparticles. The nanofluid may be hydrophilic nanofluids, such as a coolant, or hydrophobic nanofluids, such as nanolubricants or nanogreases. In particular, the present invention provides a homogenous hydrophilic nanofluid, which contains soluble carbon nanotubes in the hydrophilic thermal transfer fluid. The present invention also provides a nanogrease, which is a sustainable dispersion of solid carbon nanotubes in a hydrophobic thermal transfer fluid. The solid carbon nanotubes function as both as a thickener to modulate viscosity and as a solid heat transfer medium to enhance thermal conductivity and high temperature resistance.

The invention relates to a method for preparing a carbon nanoparticle/two-dimensional layered titanium carbide composite material. The method includes the steps that a two-dimensional layered titanium carbide nano material MXene (Ti3C2/Ti2C) is prepared through hydrofluoric acid corrosion; the material MXene (Ti3C2/Ti2C) and monosaccharide are processed through ultrasonic treatment, vacuum impregnation, hydrothermal treatment and other steps, so carbon nanoparticles are generated between layers and on the surface of the MXene (Ti3C2/Ti2C) material, and the carbon nanoparticle/two-dimensional layered titanium carbide composite material is obtained. Raw materials which are not toxic and easy to obtain are adopted, the preparation process is simple, the technology is controllable, cost is low, repeatability is good, the layered structure of the prepared two-dimensional layered MXene (Ti3C2/Ti2C) is uniform and complete, the carbon nanoparticles are evenly distributed between the layers and on the surface of the MXene (Ti3C2/Ti2C) material, and the prepared composite material has the advantages of being large in specific surface area, good in conductivity, good in hydrophilic property and the like and can be used in the fields such as functional ceramic, wave-absorbing materials, supercapacitors and ion batteries.

A conductive mesoporous carbon composite comprising conductive carbon nanoparticles contained within a mesoporous carbon matrix, wherein the conductive mesoporous carbon composite possesses at least a portion of mesopores having a pore size of at least 10 nm and up to 50 nm, and wherein the mesopores are either within the mesoporous carbon matrix, or are spacings delineated by surfaces of said conductive carbon nanoparticles when said conductive carbon nanoparticles are fused with each other, or both. Methods for producing the above-described composite, devices incorporating them (e.g., lithium batteries), and methods of using them, are also described.

A gas permeable, carbon based, nanocomposite membrane comprises a nanoporous carbon matrix comprising a pyrolyzed polymer, and a plurality of nanoparticles of carbon or an inorganic compound disposed in the matrix. The matrix is prepared by pyrolyzing a polymer, and nanoparticles of the particulate material are disposed in the polymer prior to pyrolysis. The particles may be disposed in a precursor of the polymer, which precursor is subsequently polymerized, or in the polymer itself.

The invention discloses a preparation method of functional fluorescence carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) based on natural saccharide materials and representation and application thereof in measurement for biotechnique. The preparation method is characterized by comprises the following steps of dissolving 1g of carbon sources (cellulose, starch, chitosan and cyclodextrin) and 0.1g of NaOH into 15ml of deionized water, then reacting reacting for 4 hours in an autoclave at 160 DEG C, and carrying out acid-base neutralization and microwave treatment on the obtained carbon nanoparticles. According to the preparation method, the raw materials are abundant and cheap and are easily available, the preparation method is simple, and the synthesized nanoparticles have good fluorescence characteristic and the characteristics of stable fluorescence, dark flashing, tunable wavelength, wide excitation spectra, narrow emission spectrum and the like, and can be used as a fluorescence indicator in the biological medicine field.