	US 12,234,152 B2
	Mechanochemical process to produce exfoliated nanoparticles
Apoorva Sinha, Calgary (CA)
Assigned to Carbon Upcycling Technologies Inc., Calgary (CA)
Filed by Carbon Upcycling Technologies Inc., Calgary (CA)
Filed on Jun. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/342,829.
Application 18/342,829 is a division of application No. 16/629,626, granted, now 11,772,976, previously published as PCT/IB2018/055156, filed on Jul. 12, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 17181233 (EP), filed on Jul. 13, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0339761 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. C01B 32/19 (2017.01); C01B 32/192 (2017.01); C01B 32/198 (2017.01); C08K 3/04 (2006.01)

CPC C01B 32/198 (2017.08) [C01B 32/192 (2017.08); C08K 3/042 (2017.05); C01B 2204/32 (2013.01); C01P 2002/88 (2013.01); C01P 2004/53 (2013.01); C01P 2004/61 (2013.01); C01P 2004/62 (2013.01); C01P 2004/64 (2013.01); C08K 2201/005 (2013.01); C08K 2201/006 (2013.01); C08K 2201/011 (2013.01)]

11 Claims

1. A mechanochemical process to produce exfoliated nanoparticles, said method comprising the step of:

subjecting the material of a solid feedstock in the presence of a gas comprising carbon dioxide to a mechanical agitation operation in a mechanical agitation unit at a pressure of at least 1 atm (15 psi), wherein the solid feedstock comprises an inorganic amorphous powder.