18835723. METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOLDING OF CNF-CMC ONTO MOLDED PULP (Purdue Research Foundation)
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOLDING OF CNF-CMC ONTO MOLDED PULP
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Inventor(s)
Jeffrey Youngblood of Crawfordsville IN US
Jingxuan Zhang of West Lafayette IN US
Endrina Forti of Santa Clara CA US
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOLDING OF CNF-CMC ONTO MOLDED PULP
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18835723 titled 'METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOLDING OF CNF-CMC ONTO MOLDED PULP
Original Abstract Submitted
A method of overmolding an object of interest with a protective coating is disclosed, which includes receiving a mold having a top half and a bottom half dimensioned for an object of interest, placing the object of interest into the bottom half of the mold, spreading a layer or laying a sheet of a mixture cellulose nanofibril (CNF) and carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) on to the object of interest, placing the top half of the mold onto the CNF/CMC layer, applying a predetermined pressure between the top and bottom halves of the mold, applying a predetermined amount of heat to the mold, to thereby molding the CNF/CMC mixture onto the object of interest, and removing the object of interest with the layer of CNF/CMC formed thereon from the mold after a predetermined amount of time.