Patent ID: 11932581
Assignee: THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Field: Materials, metallurgy (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  B | IPC B  C

Claim 0:
1. A method of fabricating a foam, the method comprising:
preparing a slurry of slurry components, the slurry components comprising a freezing agent and a primary material of the foam; and
freeze-drying the slurry at a temperature below 25° C. to give the foam comprising the primary material,
the primary material comprising a first material that is a two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterial and a second material that is a one-dimensional (1D) nanomaterial,
the foam being free-standing,
the foam comprising a lamellar microstructure,
the first material being boron nitride nanoplatelets (BNNP),
the second material being boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT), and
the foam being a hybrid BNNT/BNNP foam.