Coater for the preparation of carbon-based tape substrates for use in imaging applications
AssigneeUniversity of Kansas
InventorEduardo ROSA-MOLINAR
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Abstract
Disclosed are reel-to-reel coating systems that can be used to form graphene-coated tapes. The coating systems can be modular, self-contained, and sized to allow for benchtop fabrication of coated tape substrates for use in imaging applications. The reels of the coating system can be removable, and adapted to be re-attached to an in-situ scanning electron microscope reel-to-reel imaging system, a reel-to-reel system for sectioning resin-embedded cells and/or tissues with an ultramicrotome, or any combination thereof. In this way, the coater can serve as part of an integrated system facilitating efficient, serial sample processing and imaging.
Claims23
A system for the fabrication of a carbon-coated tape, the system comprising:
- a support frame;
- a feeder reel rotatably coupled to the support frame;
- a feeder motor operably coupled to the feeder reel so as to drive rotation of the feeder reel;
- a take-up reel rotatably coupled to the support frame;
- a take-up motor operably coupled to the take-up reel so as to drive rotation of the take-up reel;
- a coating element, a drying element, and a heating element, each operably coupled to the support frame and spaced apart from the feeder reel, the take-up reel, and one another;
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- one or more tape guides coupled to the support frame and defining a path for a tape to be drawn from the feeder reel to the take-up reel;
- wherein the path allows the tape to sequentially interface with the coating element, the drying element, and the heating element while being drawn from the feeder reel to the take-up reel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.