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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2017
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Syed B. Qadri, Fairfax Station, VA (US);
Bhakta B. Rath, Oakton, VA (US);
Edward P. Gorzkowski, III, Odenton, MD (US);
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A method of making Aluminum Nitride (AlN) from nut shells comprising preparing powders of agricultural nuts, preparing powders of nanocrystalline AlO, mixing the powders and thereby forming a homogenous sample powder of agricultural nuts and AlO, pressurizing the homogenous sample powder into a disk, heat treating or pyrolyzing the disk in a nitrogen atmosphere, reacting the disk and the nitrogen atmosphere and forming AlN, and wherein the AlN is nano-structured AlN and in a pure form and in the wurtzite phase of AlN. A method of producing Aluminum Nitride comprising milling nuts into a powder, milling a powder of nanocrystalline AlO, mixing, pressing into a pellet, providing nitrogen, heating, and forming AlN. An Aluminum Nitride product from preparing powders of nuts and AlO, mixing, and forming a powder, pressurizing into a disk, pyrolyzing in nitrogen, and forming AlN.