Methods of producing functionalized powder particles
AssigneeKremenak Nanotech, Inc.
InventorJesse KREMENAK
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides functionalized powder particles and methods of forming functionalized powder particles. The functionalization is acquired through the formation of primary and/or secondary structures on a powder particle. Functionalization can be controlled to bring about changes in a broad range of physical and/or chemical properties.
Claims21
1-128. (canceled)
A method of lysing a cell, the method comprising:
- (a) providing one or more crystalline, polycrystalline, semi-crystalline, or amorphous semiconductor or insulator powder particle having a diameter between 1 and 1,000 microns;
- (b) forming, on the one or more powder particle, a type of structure selected from the group consisting of pores, pits, craters, nanowires, cones, pinnacles, hoodoos, coral, cords, walls, fins, ridges, crags, pyramids, and inverted pyramids, thereby forming one or more functionalized powder particle, and
- (c) contacting a cell with said one or more functionalized powder particle, thereby lysing the cell.
A functionalized crystalline or polycrystalline powder particle, comprising one or more submillistructures selected from the group consisting of pinnacles, hoodoos, coral, cords, walls, fins, ridges, crags, and inverted pyramids, wherein the diameter of the powder particle is between 1 and 1,000 microns, and wherein the particle exhibits an antimicrobial property.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.