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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2021
Alliance for Sustainable Energy, Llc, Golden, CO (US);
The University of Denver, Denver, CO (US);
Jeffrey Lee Blackburn, Golden, CO (US);
Andrew John Ferguson, Louisville, CO (US);
Barry Lee Zink, Denver, CO (US);
Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, Golden, CO (US);
University of Denver, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a film having a network of randomly aligned carbon nanotubes, where the carbon nanotubes have an average diameter between about 0.6 nm and about 2.0 nm and the carbon nanotubes form bundles having an average diameter between about 3 nm and about 50 nm. In addition, the composition is characterized by a power factor ασ between 1 μW/mKand about 3500 μW/mKand by ZT=ασT/k between about 0.02 and about 2.0 over a temperature range between about 100 K and about 500 K.