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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2023
Filed:
May. 20, 2022
Lyten, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Michael W. Stowell, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Bryce H. Anzelmo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bruce Lanning, Littleton, CO (US);
Daniel Cook, Woodside, CA (US);
Elena Rogojina, San Jose, CA (US);
Karel Vanheusden, Woodside, CA (US);
Margaret Hines, San Jose, CA (US);
John Baldwin, San Jose, CA (US);
Chandra B. Kc, San Jose, CA (US);
Lyten, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods include producing tunable carbon structures and combining carbon structures with a polymer to form a composite material. Carbon structures include crinkled graphene. Methods also include functionalizing the carbon structures, either in-situ, within the plasma reactor, or in a liquid collection facility. The plasma reactor has a first control for tuning the specific surface area (SSA) of the resulting tuned carbon structures as well as a second, independent control for tuning the SSA of the tuned carbon structures. The composite materials that result from mixing the tuned carbon structures with a polymer results in composite materials that exhibit exceptional favorable mechanical and/or other properties. Mechanisms that operate between the carbon structures and the polymer yield composite materials that exhibit these exceptional mechanical properties are also examined.