Ultraconductive metal composite forms and the synthesis thereof
AssigneeOhio University
InventorsKeerti S. Kappagantula, Frank Frederick Kraft
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Abstract
A method of forming a metal-graphene composite includes coating metal components (10) with graphene (14) to form graphene-coated metal components, combining a plurality of the graphene-coated metal components to form a precursor workpiece (26), and working the precursor workpiece (26) into a bulk form (30) to form the metal-graphene composite. A metal-graphene composite includes graphene (14) in a metal matrix wherein the graphene (14) is single-atomic layer or multi-layer graphene (14) distributed throughout the metal matrix and primarily (but not exclusively) oriented with a plane horizontal to an axial direction of the metal-graphene composite.
Claims12
A method of forming a metal-graphene composite comprising:
- coating metal components with graphene to form graphene-coated metal components;
- stacking a plurality of the graphene-coated metal components to form a precursor workpiece, wherein the graphene of the plurality of graphene metal-coated metal components is primarily oriented perpendicular to an axis that is parallel to the stacking direction of the precursor workpiece;
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- working the precursor workpiece into a bulk form to form the metal-graphene composite, wherein the working of the precursor workpiece comprises reducing a dimension of the precursor workpiece in a direction substantially perpendicular to the stacking direction of the precursor workpiece.
The method of any of the preceding claims, wherein the metal components are selected from the group consisting of:
- copper components, aluminum components, silver components, gold components, titanium components, nickel components, iron components, magnesium components, manganese components, cobalt components, zinc components, and chromium components.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.