ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,173, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo) and MEIJO UNIVERSITY (Nagoya, Japan).
"Production method for thin film of aligned carbon nanotube" was invented by Ryota Yuge (Tokyo) and Sumio Iijima (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object of the present invention is to provide a production method and a production apparatus for a thin film of aligned carbon nanotubes. The present invention relates to a production method for an aligned carbon nanotube film having a film thickness of less than 1000 nm, including a step of causing a part of a dispersion solvent liquid of a carbon nanotube dispersion liquid to perm...