Intellectual Property Law

US Patent 7731928 - Silanized CNTs

Qimonda AG is a semiconductor memory company which, while recently undergoing bankruptcy issues, has developed several innovative solutions for semiconductor device development. For example, this latest patent teaches a process to form a dielectric coating on nanotubes useful to the fabrication of CNT sensors and transistors. Claim 1 reads:

1. A process for silanizing carbon nanotubes, wherein the carbon nanotubes are oxidized and subsequently exposed to a saturated gas phase comprising one or more organosilane derivatives which form covalent bonds to the carbon nanotubes with siloxane formation.

Full post as published by TinytechIP on June 11, 2010 (boomark / email).