Patent ID: 11932539
Assignee: GRAPHUL INDUSTRIES LLC
Field: Materials, metallurgy (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  D  H  B  Y | IPC B  C  D  H

Claim 11:
12. A columnar-carbon and graphene-plate lattice composite material comprising:
a first single layer graphene sheet forming a bottom plate;
a second single layer graphene sheet forming a middle plate;
a third single layer graphene forming a top plate;
a first plurality of fullerene-derived carbon columns positioned on the first graphene sheet; and
a second plurality of fullerene-derived carbon columns positioned on the second graphene sheet,
wherein the second graphene sheet is positioned on top of the first plurality of fullerene-derived carbon columns,
wherein the third graphene sheet is positioned on top of the second plurality of fullerene-derived carbon columns,
wherein the first graphene sheet, the second graphene sheet, the third graphene sheet, the first plurality of fullerene-derived carbon columns, and the second plurality of fullerene-derived carbon columns form the columnar-carbon and graphene-plate lattice composite material,
wherein the plurality of fullerene-derived carbon columns are derived from fullerenes fused to the first, second, and third graphene sheets,
wherein the plurality of fullerene-derived carbon columns are positioned on the graphene sheets in a staggered pattern between sheets,
wherein the plurality of fullerene-derived carbon columns are positioned on the graphene sheets with a spacing of approximately 0.81 nm from each other,
wherein the plurality of fullerene-derived carbon columns positioned on the graphene sheets form a uniform pattern between the first, second, and third graphene sheets, and
wherein columnar-carbon and graphene-plate lattice composite material comprises a tensile strength of about 22.5 GPa in an x-axis parallel to the plane of the graphene sheets.