ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,884, issued on April 29, was assigned to CENS MATERIALS LTD. (Beer-Sheva, Israel).
"Dispersion of small scale materials via cavitation" was invented by Michael Bromfman (Omer, Israel) and Einat Schur (Susya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided methods and systems for disaggregation and deagglomeration of small scale materials such as carbon nanotubes by cavitation of a treatment substance. The treatment substance may be a substance such as CO2 which is capable of undergoing phase changes. Systems must be capable of withstanding high pressures, and cavitation may be done by ultrasound, mechanical agitation, injectio...