Method for attaching nanomaterials comprising hexagonal lattices to polymer surfaces

DWPI Title: Attaching nanomaterial comprising hexagonal lattice to polymer surface involves laminating polymer surface with amine groups, fictionalizing surfaces of nanomaterial with ester groups, reacting ester groups functionalized nanomaterial surfaces with amine groups, and chemically attaching nanomaterial
Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for attaching nanomaterials containing hexagonal lattices to polymer surfaces. For example, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can be attached to polycarbonate, polyethylene, or epoxy surfaces by amination of the polymer surface, functionalization of the surfaces of CNTs with ester groups, and reacting the aminated surface of the polymer with the ester groups of the functionalized surfaces of the CNTs in an organic solvent to chemically bind the CNTs to the polymer surface.
Use: Method for attaching nanomaterial comprising a hexagonal lattice to a polymer surface.
Advantage: None given.
Novelty: Attaching nanomaterial comprising a hexagonal lattice to a polymer surface involves laminating the polymer surface with amine groups, fictionalizing the surfaces of the nanomaterial with ester groups, and reacting the ester groups on the functionalized nanomaterial surfaces with the amine groups on the aminated polymer surface in an organic solvent to form an amide bond, and chemically attaching the nanomaterial to the polymer surface.
Filed: 2/17/2021
Application Number: US17177470A
Tech ID: SD 15163.1
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.
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