Patent ID: 8496012
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: A24B,A24D,B01D,B82Y

Abstract:
1. A method of making a cigarette comprising composite nanoscale particles, comprising the steps of: (i) subjecting a starting material to laser energy so as to form a vapor and condensing the vapor so as to form the composite nanoscale particles, wherein said composite nanoscale particles comprise a first metal and/or a first metal oxide incorporated in nanoscale particles of an oxide of a second metal, the first metal being different than the second metal; (ii) incorporating the composite nanoscale particles in and/or on at least one of tobacco cut filler, cigarette paper and cigarette filter material; (iii) providing the tobacco cut filler to a cigarette making machine to form a tobacco column; and (iv) placing the cigarette paper around the tobacco column to form a tobacco rod of a cigarette wherein the starting material comprises a target of the first metal and oxide of the second metal.