Materials

Argonne’s innovations in high-tech materials are key to breakthroughs in biology, the environment, nuclear energy, transportation and national security.

Argonne continues to make revolutionary advances in the science of materials discovery and synthesis, and is designing new materials with advantageous properties — one atom at a time. Examples of these include Argonne’s technologies for nanoparticle applications, heat transfer and materials for advanced energy storage.

Intellectual Property

Low-cost method for fabricating palladium and palladium-alloy thin films on porous supports (IN-10-102)

Applications in separating H2 from various gas mixtures with high permeation flux

Intellectual Property

Ultra-nano Crystalline Diamond Contacts for Diamond Electronic Devices (ANL-IN-12-098B)

A method of forming electrical contacts on a diamond substrate comprises producing a plasma ball using a microwave plasma source in the presence of a mixture of gases

Intellectual Property

All 2D High Mobility, Flexible, Transparent, Thinnest Thin Transistor (ANL-IN-14-013)

A two-dimensional thin film transistor and a method for manufacturing a two-dimensional thin film transistor

Intellectual Property

Semiconductor Devices Fabrication Based On Optically Transparent, Low Temperature Nanocrystalline Diamond On Glass, Quartz, And Sapphire (ANL-IN-14-007)

Transparent semiconductor devices with high thermal conductivity

Intellectual Property

Systems and Methods for Photothermal Material (ANL-IN-18-039)

A porous substrate is coated with Chinese ink followed by atomic layer deposition

Intellectual Property

Ordered Nanoscale Domains by Infiltration of Block Co-Polymers (ANL-IN-10-017 and ANL-IN-10-017B)

A method of preparing tunable inorganic patterned nanofeatures by infiltration of a block copolymer scaffold having a plurality of self-assembled periodic polymer microdomains

Intellectual Property

Graphene Layer Formation at Low Substrate Temperature on a Metal and Carbon Based Substrate (ANL-IN-11-055C)

A system and method for forming graphene layers on a substrate

Intellectual Property

Graphene Layer Formation on a Carbon Based Substrate (ANL-IN-11-055B)

A system and method for forming graphene layers on a substrate

Intellectual Property

Nanomaterials Analysis Using a SEM

High-efficiency X-ray detection system enables routine analysis of individual nanoparticles and thin films

Intellectual Property

Nitrogen Incorporated UltraNanoCrystalline Diamond As a Robust Electrical Contact to Diamond (ANL-IN-12-098)

A method of forming electrical contacts on a diamond substrate comprises producing a plasma ball using a microwave plasma source in the presence of a mixture of gases

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