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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ping Chen, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 110260, SG;
Jianyi Lin, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 110260, SG;
Xiaobin Wu, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 110260, SG;
Bin Xue, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 110260, SG;
Kuang Lee Tan, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 110260, SG;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B22F 9/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B22F 9/20 ;
Abstract
A method for forming metal particles and fibers, including: mixing at least one of nanotubes and nanofibers with at least one metal salt to form a mixture, and decomposing and reducing the mixture. The method of syntheses metal nanoparticles and fibers, such as Cu, Pd, Pt, Ag and Au nanoparticles and Cu sub-micron fibers, by using carbon nanotubes or carbon nanofibers as templates.