	US 12,479,728 B2
	Fabrication of carbon-based nanostructures on metallic substrates, including aluminum-containing substrates
Brian L. Wardle, Lexington, MA (US); and Kehang Cui, Cambridge, MA (US)
Assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
Appl. No. 17/413,171
Filed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 13, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/066279 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 11, 2021, PCT Pub. No. WO2020/123974, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 18, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/780,116, filed on Dec. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0041451 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. C01B 32/162 (2017.01); B01J 23/75 (2006.01)

CPC C01B 32/162 (2017.08) [B01J 23/75 (2013.01); B01J 2235/00 (2024.01); B01J 2235/30 (2024.01)]

14 Claims

1. An article comprising:

a substrate comprising aluminum metal and/or aluminum alloy;

a catalyst comprising at least one metallic species arranged such that the at least one metallic species is in direct contact with metallic aluminum of the substrate; and

elongated carbon-based nanostructures in direct contact with the catalyst;

wherein the aluminum metal and/or aluminum alloy of the substrate has at least one cross-sectional dimension of at least about 1 mm; and

wherein the at least one metallic species comprises Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Au, and/or Al.