Porous materials via freeze-casting of metal salt solutions
| Patent Number: | 10,086,431 |
| Issued: | 10/2/2018 |
| Official Filing: | View the Complete Patent |
| Abstract: | Disclosed here is a method for making a nanoporous material, comprising aerosolizing a solution comprising at least one metal salt and at least one solvent to obtain an aerosol, freezing the aerosol to obtain a frozen aerosol, and drying the frozen aerosol to obtain a nanoporous metal compound material. Further, the nanoporous metal compound material can be reduced to obtain a nanoporous metal material. |
| Filed: | 6/16/2015 |
| Application Number: | 14/741,334 |
| Government Interests: | STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention. |