Patent ID: 9617156
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: B01J,B82Y,C01B,C01P,C08K,C09C,C09K,H01B,H01M,H05K,Y02E,Y10S,Y10T

Claim:
1. A method for manufacturing a chemically interconnected network of crystalline carbon nanostructures, comprising (i) contacting a substrate with a bicontinuous micro-emulsion comprising metal nanoparticles having an average particle size between 1 and 100 nm, wherein deviations in paticles size from the average particle size are less than 10 %; (ii) subjecting the metal nanoparticles and a gaseous carbon source to chemical vapor deposition, thus forming a network of carbon nanostructures; and (iii) obtaining a network of chemically interconnected crystalline carbon nanostructures.