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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023
Filed:
May. 05, 2020
Zeon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Rahul Sen, Lexington, MA (US);
Billy Smith, Woburn, MA (US);
J. Thomas Kocab, Exeter, RI (US);
Ramesh Sivarajan, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Peter Sites, Marblehead, MA (US);
Thomas Rueckes, Byfield, MA (US);
David A. Roberts, Woburn, MA (US);
ZEON CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present disclosure provides scalable nanotube fabrics and methods for controlling or otherwise adjusting the nanotube length distribution of a nanotube application solution in order to realize scalable nanotube fabrics. In one aspect of the present disclosure, one or more filtering operations are used to remove relatively long nanotube elements from a nanotube solution until nanotube length distribution of the nanotube solution conforms to a preselected or desired nanotube length distribution profile. In another aspect of the present disclosure, a sono-chemical cutting process is used to break up relatively long nanotube elements within a nanotube application solution into relatively short nanotube elements to realize a pre-selected or desired nanotube length distribution profile.