Nanomaterial Support Mediums for Artworks with Light Emission

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional mediums and processes for creating art, design, and architecture lack the ability to achieve unique aesthetic and functional properties, particularly in terms of light emission, transparency, and structural integrity, limiting the creativity and innovation in macroscopic works of art and design.

Innovation Solution

The development of novel two or three-dimensional support mediums using nanomaterials, light-emitting devices, and transparent polymers, which enable the creation of artworks with enhanced strength, conductivity, and aesthetic effects such as transparency, light emission, and interactive properties, allowing for forms that are lighter, thinner, and more airy without compromising structure or strength.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If conventional materials are used for creating artworks, then structural integrity is maintained, but aesthetic properties such as transparency and light emission are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelight emissionVSAvoidaesthetic properties
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies composite materials by integrating nanomaterials (such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, quantum dots) with conventional art materials and light-emitting devices to create support mediums that simultaneously provide structural integrity and advanced aesthetic properties including transparency, light emission, and interactivity. This composite approach resolves the contradiction by combining materials with complementary properties that neither could achieve alone.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Strength

If conventional materials are used for creating artworks, then structural integrity is maintained, but transparency and light emission properties are achieved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural integrityVSAvoidlight emission
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent integrates nanomaterials with exceptional mechanical strength (carbon nanotubes, graphene) alongside light-emitting components to create composite support mediums where the nanomaterial framework provides structural integrity while embedded light-emitting devices and transparent polymers enable illumination and optical properties.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

3Adaptability or versatility

If conventional materials are used for creating artworks, then ease of manufacture is maintained, but unique aesthetic and functional properties are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaesthetic and functional propertiesVSAvoidmanufacturing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by incorporating nanomaterials and light-emitting devices specifically into the support medium structure rather than treating the entire artwork uniformly. This allows unique aesthetic and functional properties to be localized to specific regions where needed, while maintaining conventional manufacturing processes for other portions of the artwork.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

4Shape

If nanomaterials are used to create lighter and thinner forms, then aesthetic properties are improved, but structural integrity must be maintained

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveform thicknessVSAvoidstructural integrity
Core Design Contradiction:
ShapeVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses composite materials where nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, graphene) provide exceptional strength-to-weight ratios, enabling the creation of thinner, lighter support mediums that maintain structural integrity. These nanomaterials form reinforcing frameworks or networks within the support medium that compensate for reduced material thickness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs thin film structures incorporating nanomaterials and light-emitting devices that can be stretched or formed into various shapes while maintaining structural integrity through the nanomaterial reinforcement, enabling flexible and thin artwork supports.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Data Source

PatentUS20240290216A1Image Making Medium, Compositions and Works of Design, Architecture and Art
Publication Date: 2024.08.29 HYMAN SYDNEY

AI summary

The present invention relates to a macroscopic, two or three-dimensional support medium that facilitates artistic expression and the creation and display of macroscopic design that is applied art, architecture and art. The invention also relates to various methods of making such novel support mediums and the works of design that is applied art, architecture and art they are made as or into. Examples are works of design, architecture and art made with aesthetic and/or functional properties from the use of nanomaterials.