US Patent Issued to DREXEL UNIVERSITY on Oct. 7 for "High throughput carbon fiber surface modification" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,465, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DREXEL UNIVERSITY (Philadelphia).

"High throughput carbon fiber surface modification" was invented by Zachary R. Hinton (Philadelphia), Nicolas Javier Alvarez (Drexel Hill, Pa.) and Giuseppe Raffaello Palmese (Hainesport, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Typical commercial surface treatments for continuous carbon fibers are often unavailable for discontinuous fibers. As such, there is little variety of chopped fiber surfaces leading to non-ideal coating solutions which result in poor interfacial compatibility between fibers and a composite matrix. A method of applying a highly effective coatin...