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US 7,296,691 B2Granted
Carbon or activated carbon nanofibers
AssigneeKX Technologies LLC
InventorEvan E. Koslow
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InventorEvan E. Koslow
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Carbon or activated carbon nanofibers are made from fibrillated nanofibers having a Canadian Standard Freeness of less than about 100, and/or a fiber diameter of less than or equal to about 400 nm. BET surface areas are greater than about 800 m2/g The fibrillated nanofibers can be made into a precursor paper and subjected to heat treatment to form carbon or activated carbon nanofiber sheets. A method of making is disclosed wherein carbonization occurs at a temperature of less than about 600° C. Activation occurs at temperatures greater than about 875° C. in less than or equal to about 30 minutes in an oxidizing atmosphere. Single step carbonization and activation in an oxidizing atmosphere is also disclosed. The carbon nanofibers or structures made therefrom are useful as filter media providing efficient adsorption and interception of microbiological contaminants due to the microporous carbon nanofiber structure.
A sheet comprising activated, carbonized fibrillated lyocell fibers and a microbiological interception enhancing agent, wherein prior to carbonization said fibrillated lyocell fibers have a Canadian Standard Freeness of less than about 100 and a fiber diameter of less than or equal to about 400 nm, said sheet carbonized at a temperature of less than about 600° C., said microbiological interception enhancing agent comprising a biologically active metal precipitated with a counter ion of a cationic material that is adsorbed on at least a portion of said fibers to form a metal colloidal precipitate complex on a portion of a surface of at least some of said activated, carbonized fibers.
A sheet comprising activated, carbonized fibrillated lyocell fibers and a microbiological interception enhancing agent comprising a biologically active metal precipitated with a counter ion of a cationic material on at least a portion of said fibers to form a metal colloidal complex on a portion of a surface of at least some of said activated, carbonized fibrillated lyocell fibers, said fibrillated lyocell fibers having a BET surface area of greater than about 800 m2/g, wherein prior to carbonization and activation, the fibrillated fibers have a Canadian Standard Freeness of less than about 100 or a fiber diameter of less than or equal to about 400 nm and wherein activation occurs in less than or equal to about 30 minutes at a temperature greater than about 875° C. in an oxidizing atmosphere.
A sheet comprising activated, carbonized fibrillated fibers having a microbiological interception enhancing agent on at least a portion of at least some of said fibrillated fibers, said microbiological interception enhancing agent comprising a biologically active metal precipitated with a counter ion of a cationic material that is adsorbed on said at least portion of said fibrillated fibers to form a metal colloidal complex on a portion of a surface of at least some of said activated, carbonized fibrillated fibers.
A sheet comprising activated, carbonized fibrillated lyocell fibers having a microbiological interception enhancing agent on at least a portion of at least some of said fibrillated fibers, said microbiological interception enhancing agent comprising a biologically active metal precipitated with a counter ion of a cationic material that is adsorbed on said at least portion of said fibrillated fibers to form a metal colloidal complex on a portion of a surface of at least some of said activated, carbonized fibrillated fibers.
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