Modified carbon products and their applications
AssigneeCabot Corporation
InventorsMark J. Hampden-Smith, James Caruso, Paolina Atanassova, Agathagelos Kyrlidis
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Modified carbon products including a metal group attached to the modified carbon product. The modified carbon products are particularly useful for various applications such as catalysis, electronic conduction, ionic conduction, absorbents, heat transfer and luminescence.
Claims30
A modified carbon product comprising a carbon support having a carbon surface, and an organic group having a cyclic portion and a functional group attached to the carbon surface and a metal group covalently attached to said functional group, wherein said metal group is a metal source that is silver, copper, nickel, europium, iron, aluminum, rhodium, cobalt, ruthenium, magnesium, calcium, or platinum.
A method for the manufacture of a modified carbon product, comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a carbon support;
- b) modifying said carbon support by reacting a diazonium salt in the presence of said carbon support to provide an organic group that attaches to a carbon surface of said carbon support, wherein said organic group has a cyclic portion and a functional group, wherein said modifying step comprises the step of spray processing a precursor solution comprising said carbon support;
- and
- c) attaching a metal group to said functional group, wherein said metal group is a metal source that is silver, copper, nickel, europium, iron, aluminum, rhodium, cobalt, ruthenium, magnesium, calcium, or platinum, wherein said metal group is covalently attached to said functional group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.