Carbon Nanotechnologies Announces the Allowance of a U.S. Patent for Coating Single-Wall Carbon...

July 13, 2004 - Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc. (CNI) announced today the allowance of another U.S. Patent, this one for coated single-wall carbon nanotubes and ropes of single-wall carbon nanotubes. The technology gives CNI a patent on a composition that is single-wall carbon nanotubes with a nanometer-scale coating of another material that can include polymers and metals. This technology is part of the intellectual property developed by Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. Richard Smalley and licensed exclusively to CNI by Rice University in 2001.

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