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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2006
Brian Lee Wardle, Lexington, MA (US);
Sang-gook Kim, Wayland, MA (US);
Brian Lee Wardle, Lexington, MA (US);
Sang-Gook Kim, Wayland, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A hybrid nanocomposite architecture is presented. The architecture includes a first composite ply oriented at a first orientation. The architecture also includes a carbon nanotube (CNT) film layer including a plurality of CNT pellets disposed therein, each of the CNT bundles including a plurality of CNTs extending from the bottom surface of the CNT film layer to a top surface of the CNT film layer, the CNT film layer disposed in an abutting relationship with the first composite ply. The architecture further includes a second composite ply which may be oriented at a second orientation, the second composite ply disposed in an abutting relationship with the CNT film layer, and wherein the CNTs of the CNT film layer act as a penetrating bridge across an interface between the first composite ply and the second composite ply.