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US 12,559,869 B2Granted
Carbon fibers and method of fabrication thereof
AssigneeUniversity of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
InventorsMuhammad Ghassan Salim, Haitao Liu, Tevis Davis Jacobs, Min A Kim, Luke Anthony Thimons
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Abstract
A method of forming a fiber includes providing a sheet of a single layer of graphene or an oxidative analogue of graphene and applying force to the sheet to induce bending in the sheet and increase an aspect ratio thereof, thereby forming the fiber.
Claims20
A method of forming a fiber, comprising:
- positioning a sheet of graphene or an oxidative analogue of graphene on a surface, and
- applying force to the sheet to induce bending in the sheet to decrease a width of the sheet and increase an aspect ratio thereof, thereby forming the fiber.
A fiber formed by inducing bending in a sheet of a single layer of graphene or an oxidative analogue of graphene to increase an aspect ratio thereof, thereby forming the fiber.
A material, comprising:
- a plurality of fibers wherein each of the plurality of fibers is formed from a sheet of a single layer of graphene or an oxidative analogue of graphene in which bending has been induced in the sheet to increase an aspect ratio thereof, thereby forming the fiber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.