US Patent Issued to THE BOARD OF TRUSTREES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS on July 7 for "Printed structure comprising aligned carbon nanotubes for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,405, issued on July 7, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTREES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Ill.).

"Printed structure comprising aligned carbon nanotubes for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding" was invented by Joseph W. Lyding (Champaign, Ill.) and Gang Wang (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding material comprises a freestanding printed structure including aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes, wherein an alignment direction of the aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes coincides with a parallel direction of the freestanding printed structure, and wherein a pro...