US Patent:
20040202603, Oct 14, 2004
Inventors:
Alan Fischer - Cambridge MA, US
Robert Hoch - Hensonville NY, US
David Moy - Winchester MA, US
Ming Lu - Lanham MD, US
Mark Martin - N. Bethesda MD, US
Chun Niu - Somerville MA, US
Naoya Ogata - Tokyo, JP
Howard Tennent - Kennett Square PA, US
Liwen Dong - Rockville MD, US
Ji Sun - Potomac MD, US
Larry Helms - Germantown MD, US
Fabian Jameison - Gaithersburg MD, US
Pam Liang - Alhambra CA, US
David Simpson - N. Bethesda MD, US
Assignee:
Hyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
International Classification:
D01F009/12
C07C063/333
US Classification:
423/447200, 562/492000, 564/426000
Abstract:
Graphitic nanotubes, which includes tubular fullerenes (commonly called “buckytubes”) and fibrils, which are functionalized by chemical substitution or by adsorption of functional moieties. More specifically the invention relates to graphitic nanotubes which are uniformly or non-uniformly substituted with chemical moieties or upon which certain cyclic compounds are adsorbed and to complex structures comprised of such functionalized nanotubes linked to one another. The invention also relates to methods for introducing functional groups onto the surface of such nanotubes. The invention further relates to uses for functionalized nanotubes.