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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2006
L. James Lee, Columbus, OH (US);
Gang Zhou, Columbus, OH (US);
Xia Cao, Arlington, MA (US);
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (US);
Abstract
A composite material having polymeric resin with disperse phases of reinforcing fibers and nanoparticle materials and its manufacture is disclosed herein. The nanoparticles may be bound together and added to the polymeric resin as microscale aggregations, and then unbound to create a disperse phase of nanoparticles in the resin. In other embodiments, the nanoparticles may be bound to a substrate, such as long fibers, and added to a polymeric resin. The nanoparticles are then unbound from the substrate and dispersed throughout the polymeric resin. The polymeric resin may have multiple components where one component may control the dispersion of the nanoparticles.