Self-composite comprised of nanocrystalline diamond and a non-diamond component useful for thermoelectric applications
Patent
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OSTI ID:1078306
One provides nanocrystalline diamond material that comprises a plurality of substantially ordered diamond crystallites that are sized no larger than about 10 nanometers. One then disposes a non-diamond component within the nanocrystalline diamond material. By one approach this non-diamond component comprises an electrical conductor that is formed at the grain boundaries that separate the diamond crystallites from one another. The resultant nanowire is then able to exhibit a desired increase with respect to its ability to conduct electricity while also preserving the thermal conductivity behavior of the nanocrystalline diamond material.
- Research Organization:
- Dimerond Technologies, LLC (Downers Grove, IL)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- Assignee:
- Dimerond Technologies, LLC (Downers Grove, IL)
- Patent Number(s):
- 8,257,494
- Application Number:
- 12/966,347
- OSTI ID:
- 1078306
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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