Structures formed from high technology conductive phase materials
AssigneeHamilton Sundstrand Corporation
InventorsWayde R. Schmidt, Paul Sheedy
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Abstract
A method of forming a bulk product includes the step of coating a particulate conductive phase material with a binder phase, and forming the coated conductive phase material into at least one of sheet stock, tape formed into a bulk material. A method of forming a bulk product includes the step of coating a particulate conductive phase material with a binder phase and forming the coated conductive phase material into a bulk material. The conductive phase material includes at least one of two dimensional materials, single layer materials, carbon nanotubes, boron nitride nanotubes, aluminum nitride and molybdenum disulphide (MoS2). A component is also disclosed.
Claims20
A method of forming a bulk product comprising the step of:
- coating a particulate conductive phase material with a binder phase using a deposition coating process, and forming the coated conductive phase material into a bulk material;
- wherein said particulate conductive phase material includes at least one of two dimensional (2D) materials, single layer materials, graphene, boron nitride nanotubes, aluminum nitride and molybdenum disulphide (MoS2), carbides or nitrides including those of Ti and Si refractories, intermetallics and glasses;
- wherein there is an intermediate layer coating between the conductive phase and the binder phase acting as a wetting layer;
- wherein the intermediate layer coating is a metal carbide and the binder phase is a transition metal;
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- wherein the binder phase coating is less than 100 microns thick.
A method of forming a bulk product comprising the step of:
- coating a particulate conductive phase material with a binder phase using a deposition coating process, and forming the coated conductive phase material into a bulk material;
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- wherein the bulk material is formed into at least one of sheet stock, tape, ribbons, wires, or fibers.
A component comprising:
- at least a portion of a component body formed of a particulate conductive material coated by a binder phase coating formed into bulk material, such that the component body includes both binder phase coating and the particulate conductive material, and said conductive phase material includes at least one of two dimensional materials, single layer materials, graphene, carbon nanotubes, boron nitride nanotubes, aluminum nitride and molybdenum disulphide (MoS2), wherein the particulate conductive phase material are in the shape of at least one of a powder, fibers, nanotubes, whiskers, spheres, and platelets;
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- said component body is one of sheet stock, tape, ribbons, wires or fibers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.