US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on Aug. 5 for "In situ bonding of carbon fibers and nanotubes to polymer matrices" (American, Iraqi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,375, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"In situ bonding of carbon fibers and nanotubes to polymer matrices" was invented by Thomas J. Nosker (Stockton, N.J.), Jennifer K. Lynch-Branzoi (Belle Mead, N.J.), Bernard H. Kear (Whitehouse Station, N.J.) and Nofel Z. Whieb (Hilla Babylon, Iraq).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a carbon fiber-reinforced polymer matrix composite by distributing carbon fibers or nanotubes into a molten polymer phase comprising one or more molten polymers; and applying a succession of shear strain events to the molten polymer ph...