Patent ID: 11866569
Assignee: THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC C | IPC 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, a binding agent, a dispersing agent, and particles of a first material of the foam; and
freeze-drying the slurry at a temperature in a range of from −60° C. to 0° C. to give the foam comprising the first material,
the foam being free-standing,
the foam comprising a reticulated microstructure,
the first material being a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD), and
the binding agent comprising styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) and the dispersing agent comprising carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC).