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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2021
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ (US);
Thomas J. Nosker, Stockton, NJ (US);
Jennifer K. Lynch-Branzoi, Belle Mead, NJ (US);
Justin W. Hendrix, Washington, DC (US);
Bernard H. Kear, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US);
Gordon Chiu, Summit, NJ (US);
Stephen Tse, Warren, NJ (US);
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY, New Brunswick, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method for forming a graphene-reinforced polymer matrix composite is disclosed. The method includes distributing graphite microparticles into a molten thermoplastic polymer phase; and applying a succession of shear strain events to the molten polymer phase so that the molten polymer phase exfoliates the graphite successively with each event until at least 50% of the graphite is exfoliated to form a distribution in the molten polymer phase of single- and multi-layer graphene nanoparticles less than 50 nanometers thick along the c-axis direction.