US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle on Aug. 18 for "Carbon fiber reinforced composites and method for making same" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,816, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Carbon fiber reinforced composites and method for making same" was invented by Amit K. Naskar (Knoxville, Tenn.), Zeyang Yu (Knoxville, Tenn.), Xinzhang Zhou (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Christopher C. Bowland (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface-modified carbon fiber composition comprising: (i) a carbon fiber having an outer surface, a width of at least 1 micron, and a length-to-width aspect ratio of at least 1000; and (ii) an amine-containing polymer coating bonded to the outer surface of the carbon fiber, wherein the amine-containing polym...