Liquid chemical deposition apparatus and process and products therefrom

• US 8,715,814 B2
• Filed: 11/13/2012
• Issued: 05/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: L. Pierre De Rochemont
• Original Assignee: L. Pierre De Rochemont
• Inventors: de Rochemont, L. Pierre
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Dao H
• Application Number:
  US13/675,334
• Publication Number:
  US 20130095306A1
• Time in Patent Office: 539 Days
• Field of Search: 428/212, 428/221, 428/323, 428/330, 428/411.1, 257/290, 257/291, 257/461, 257/E27.124, 257/E27.125, 136/261, 136/262
• US Class Current: 428/212
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 15/00 Layered products comprising a layer of metal
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 18/00 Layered products essentially comprising ceramics, e.g. refractory products
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 5/00 Layered products characterised by the non- homogeneity or physical structure , i.e. comprising a fibrous, filamentary, particulate or foam layer; Layered products characterised by having a layer differing constitutionally or physically in different parts
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 5/22 characterised by the presence of two or more layers which are next to each other and are fibrous, filamentary, formed of particles or foamed layer formed of natural mineral fibres or particles next to a foam layer B32B19/047, next to a layer made of particles B32B19/048, or next to a fibrous or filamentary layer B32B19/06; paper layer or cardboard layer next to a paper layer or cardboard layer B32B29/005, next to a foam layer B32B29/007, next to a fibrous or filamentary layer B32B29/02, or next to a particulate layer B32B29/04
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 18/1204 inorganic material, e.g. non-oxide and non-metallic such as sulfides, nitrides based compounds
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 18/1212 Zeolites, glasses
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 18/1216 Metal oxides C23C18/1212 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 18/1291 by heating of the substrate
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 18/1295 with after-treatment of the deposited inorganic material
• CPC Class Codes: C23C 18/143 Radiation by light, e.g. photolysis or pyrolysis
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24942 including components having same physical characteristic in differing degree
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/249921 Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/25 Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component and including a second component containing structurally defined particles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/258 Alkali metal or alkaline earth metal or compound thereof
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31504 Composite [nonstructural laminate]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31678 Of metal

Abstract

A method, apparatus and material produced thereby in an amorphous or crystalline form having multiple elements with a uniform molecular distribution of elements at the molecular level.

Claims

1. A crystalline material of macroscopic dimension comprising a uniform microstructure that consists of a dense network of crystalline grains wherein the crystalline grains have chemical uniformity that varies ≦

1.5 mol % at the atomic scale and a uniform physical dimension in the range of 1 nm to 100 nm.

2. The material of claim 1, wherein the material is a metal, superalloy, semiconductor, or ceramic.

3. The material of claim 1, having sufficient thickness to exist as a self-standing body.

4. The material of claim 1, as a laminate on a supporting substrate material.

5. A composite body comprising a substrate, and a mismatched crystallized material with compositional uniformity varying <

1.5 mol % at the atomic scale deposited on one or more substrate surfaces, wherein an amorphous portion of the deposited mismatched crystallized material forms a mechanical interface between the mismatched crystalline material and the one or more substrate surfaces.

6. A composite body of claim 5, wherein the deposited mismatched material has a crystalline structure that is different from the substrate.

7. A composite body of claim 5, wherein the substrate and the mismatched material have coefficients of thermal expansion that differ by 10% or more.

8. A composite body of claim 5, wherein the substrate and the mismatched material have crystalline lattice constants that differ by 5% or more.

9. A composite body of claim 5, wherein the uniform grain size of the deposited mismatched material has a grain size ranging from 1 nm to 500 nm in length.

10. A composite body of claim 5, wherein the mismatched material is a metal, superalloy, semiconductor, ceramic, or an electroceramic.

11. The composite body of claim 5, wherein the amorphous mismatched material is deposited on the substrate prior to annealing which nucleates less than all of deposited mismatched material to form an amorphous boundary layer between the substrate and nucleated mismatched material.

12. The composite body of claim 5, wherein the mismatched crystalline material comprises four (4) or more elemental components.