US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on Jan. 27 for "Method for separating carbon nanotubes using modified cellulose" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,370, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for separating carbon nanotubes using modified cellulose" was invented by Ayrat Maratovich Dimiev (Kazan, Russia) and Timur Lenarovich Khamidullin (Kazan, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to using modified cellulose (e.g., nitrated cellulose) for separating carbon nanotubes (CNTs). A raw mixture of CNTs of different structures or chiral angles (chiralities), can be separated into fractions, based on their selective permeation through a separation column filled with nitrated cellulose. The present invention is particularly useful i...