Back to results
US 6,665,169 B2Granted
Graphitic nanofibers in electrochemical capacitors
AssigneeHyperion Catalysis International, Inc.
InventorsHoward Tennent, David Moy, Chun-Ming Niu
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Graphitic nanofibers, which include tubular fullerenes (commonly called “buckytubes”), nanotubes and fibrils, which are functionalized by chemical substitution, are used as electrodes in electrochemical capacitors. The graphitic nanofiber based electrode increases the performance of the electrochemical capacitors.
Claims2
An electrode comprising nanofibers,
- wherein said nanofibers form an electrically contiguous network, and
- wherein said nanofibers are surface coated with a semiconducting material capable of a redox reaction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.