Composite materials with desired characteristics
AssigneeNanocore Aps
InventorsMikkel Dybro Lundorf, Henrik Pedersen, Tore Dehli
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Abstract
A type of composite material where the matrix material and additive are held together by covalently or non-covalently bound ligands is described. A particularly useful composite material covered by the present invention is a carbon nanotube-reinforced composite material where the matrix consists of a polymer, covalently attached to a linker, where said linker is non-covalently attached to the carbon nanotube. Methods for the preparation of such composite materials are provided.
Claims8
A composite material comprising a composition of at least 1016 composite material units (CMUs), where each of the CMUs has the structure (SE1-Ligand1-LinkerL-Ligand2-SE2), where SE1 and SE2 are structural entities, Ligand1 and Ligand2 are chemical entities which are bound to SE1 and SE2, respectively, and where
- SE1 is a carbon nanotube,
- SE2 is a polyamide, polycarbonate, polystyrene, an epoxy-based polymer, polyethylene terephthalate, polyvinylchloride, polyacrylate, or polyolefin;
- Ligand1 is a chemical entity that is capable of binding non-covalently to SE1, wherein
- Ligand1 comprises one or more natural amino acids,
- Ligand2 is a bond capable of binding covalently to SE2, and
- LinkerL is a chemical bond or entity that covalently links Ligand1 and Ligand2.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.