US Patent Issued to Vibrantz Technologies on Oct. 28 for "Functionalization and dispersion of carbon nanotubes" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,458, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Vibrantz Technologies Inc. (Ashtabula, Ohio).

"Functionalization and dispersion of carbon nanotubes" was invented by Santosh K. Yadav (Geneva, Ohio) and Paul A. Rettinger (Ashtabula, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes several embodiments for methods of deagglomerating, debundling, and dispersing carbon nanotubes and functionalizing such carbon nanotubes without damage to the properties of the carbon nanotubes. The embodiments include methods for determining optimized conditions to effectively produce master batches of carbon nanotube polymers and solvent system...