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US 2017/0372898 A1Published application
Methods for the Continuous, Large-Scale Manufacture of Functional Nanostructures
AssigneeGeorgia Tech Research Corporation
InventorsMichael A. Filler, Sven Holger Behrens, Laurens Victor Breedveld
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Abstract
A method for forming nanostructures including introducing a hollow shell into a reactor. The hollow shell has catalyst nanoparticles exposed on its interior surface. The method also includes introducing a precursor into the reactor to grow nanostructures from the interior surface of the hollow shell from the catalyst nanoparticles.
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A method for forming nanostructures, comprising:
- synthesizing a hollow shell via emulsion templating, where a wall of the hollow shell includes a plurality of first particles, an interior surface of the wall includes a plurality of second particles exposed thereon, and the second particles are catalyst particles;
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- introducing the hollow shell into a reactor;
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- introducing a precursor into the reactor to grow nanostructures inside the hollow shell from the catalyst particles.
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A method for forming nanostructures, comprising:
- synthesizing a hollow shell via emulsion templating by:
- emulsifying a first dispersion of first particles in a second dispersion of second particles to form a first emulsion, where the first particles are catalyst particles;
- re-emulsifying the first emulsion to form a double emulsion;
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- generating the hollow shell based on the double emulsion, where the catalyst particles are exposed on an interior surface of the hollow hell;
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- introducing the hollow shell into a reactor;
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- introducing a precursor into the reactor to grow nanostructures inside the hollow shell from the catalyst particles.
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A method for forming nanostructures, comprising:
- synthesizing a hollow shell via emulsion templating by:
- emulsifying a first dispersion of first particles in a second dispersion of second particles to form a first emulsion, where the first particles are catalyst particles;
- re-emulsifying the first emulsion to form a double emulsion;
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- extracting a middle phase from the double emulsion to generate the hollow shell, where the catalyst particles are exposed on an interior surface of the hollow shell;
- introducing the hollow shell into a reactor;
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- introducing a precursor into the reactor to grow nanostructures inside the hollow shell from the catalyst particles.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.