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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013

Filed:

Nov. 02, 2009
Applicants:

Seamus Curran, Pearland, TX (US);

Sampath Dias, Houston, TX (US);

Werner Blau, Dublin, IE;

Jun Wang, Dublin, IE;

Ronald S. Oremland, Brisbane, CA (US);

Shaun Baesman, San Carlos, CA (US);

Inventors:

Seamus Curran, Pearland, TX (US);

Sampath Dias, Houston, TX (US);

Werner Blau, Dublin, IE;

Jun Wang, Dublin, IE;

Ronald S. Oremland, Brisbane, CA (US);

Shaun Baesman, San Carlos, CA (US);

Assignee:

University of Houston, Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08K 3/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present disclosure describes composite materials containing a polymer material and a nanoscale material dispersed in the polymer material. The nanoscale materials may be biologically synthesized, such as tellurium nanorods synthesized by. Composite materials of the present disclosure may have optical limiting properties and find use in optical limiting devices.


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