Nanoparticle-Based Shear-Thickening Materials
AssigneesSaudi Arabian Oil Company, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
InventorsAbeer Mohammad Saleh Al-Olayan, Alfredo Alexander-Katz, Jason R. Cox
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Abstract
A composition includes an aqueous colloidal dispersion of a nanomaterial. The nanomaterial includes, disposed on a surface of the nanomaterial, a first coupling agent including silane and a functional group including an amino acid. The nanomaterial includes, disposed on the surface of the nanomaterial, a second coupling agent including silane and a polymer with a molecular weight between 1,000 and 20,000.
Claims10
A composition comprising an aqueous colloidal dispersion of a nanomaterial including, disposed on a surface thereof:
- a first coupling agent comprising silane and a functional group comprising an amino acid, and
- a second coupling agent comprising silane and a polymer with a molecular weight between 1,000 and 20,000.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.