Flexible graphite article and method of manufacture
AssigneeAdvanced Energy Technologies LLC
InventorsRobert Angelo Mercuri, Joseph Paul Capp, Michael Lee Warddrip, Thomas William Weber
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Abstract
A flexible graphite sheet exhibiting enhanced isotropy is provided. In addition, an apparatus, system and method for continuously producing a resin-impregnated flexible graphite sheet is also provided.
Claims11
A graphite article comprising a flexible sheet of graphite having opposed generally planar major surfaces, the graphite sheet being formed of interlocked particles of expanded graphite, an optically detectable portion of said interlocked particles of expanded graphite being substantially unaligned with the opposed planar surfaces, the graphite sheet being characterized by having increased electrical and thermal conductivity in a direction transverse to the opposed planar surfaces as compared to a graphite sheet of the same thickness and density which does not comprise an optically detectable portion of particles of expanded graphite which are substantially unaligned with the opposed planar surfaces.
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