Patent ID: 11901505
Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  C | IPC C  H

Claim 15:
16. A method, comprising:
(a) forming a metal-fibril complex by immersing a plurality of elementary nanofibrils within an alkaline solution and a plurality of metal ions dissolved therein, each elementary nanofibril being composed of a plurality of polymer molecular chains with functional groups, the immersing being such that hydrogen bonds between adjacent functional groups of the polymer molecular chains are broken so as to expose the functional groups and such that the dissolved metal ions from the alkaline solution form coordination bonds with the exposed functional groups; and
(b) intercalating second ions between adjacent molecular chains of the metal-fibril complex by immersing the metal-fibril complex in a first solution having a plurality of the second ions dissolved therein.