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US 7,611,906 B2Granted
Functionalized carbon nanotubes
AssigneeApplied Nanotech Holdings, Inc.
InventorZvi Yaniv
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Abstract
Carbon nanotubes are grown on a first substrate. The CNTs grown on the first substrate are immersed in a biological solution at a predetermined depth to functionalize ends of the CNTs with a biological molecule. The functionalized CNTs are harvested from the first substrate. A second substrate is functionalized with a complementary biological modification, which is a complementary binding partner to the biological molecule functionalized to the ends of the CNTs. The functionalized CNTs are attached to the second substrate by way of the complementary binding partner.
Claims16
A method comprising:
- partially immersing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on a first substrate in a biological solution to functionalize along only parts of the lengths of the CNTs with a biological molecule, wherein a variability in length of the functionalized parts of the lengths of the CNTs is greater than a variability in length of remainders of the lengths of the CNTs;
- harvesting the functionalized CNTs from the first substrate;
- functionalizing a second substrate with a complementary biological modification, which is a complementary binding partner to the biological molecule functionalizing along the parts of the lengths of the CNTs;
- and;
- attaching the functionalized parts of the lengths of the CNTs to the complementary biological modification functionalizing the second substrate.
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A method comprising:
- partially immersing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in a biological solution to functionalize a biological molecule along only parts of the lengths of the CNTs, wherein the functionalized CNTs are attached to a first substrate, wherein a variability in length of the functionalized parts of the lengths of the CNTs is greater than a variability in length of remainders of the lengths of the CNTs;
- harvesting the functionalized CNTs from the first substrate;
- functionalizing a second substrate with a complementary biological modification that is a complementary binding partner to the biological molecule;
- and
- attaching the harvested functionalized CNTs to the second substrate by binding the biological molecule to the complementary biological modification.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.