US Patent Issued to The Government of the Unites States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Oct. 14 for "3-D printed hydrophobic metallic nanocomposites" (California, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,896, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Government of the Unites States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Alington, Va.).

"3-D printed hydrophobic metallic nanocomposites" was invented by Troy Youngmin Ansell (Marina, Calif.), Andy Nieto (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Justin Budan (Dubuwque, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure, and the exemplary embodiments provided herein, disclose carbon nanotubes (CNT) integrated into 316L stainless steel (SS) powder feedstocks and 3D-printed using selective laser melting (SLM). Ball milling is used to disperse CNT clusters homogeneously onto the surface of 31...