IP Library Granted Patent US 8,506,833
Granted Patent B2
US 8,506,833 · App. 12/695,653 · Granted Aug 13, 2013

Molded body, method for producing the body and use thereof

Inventors: Stefan Giselbrecht (Karlsruhe, DE); Roman Truckenmüller (Flein, DE); Christina Trautmann (Darmstadt, DE)
Assignee: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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Patent No.
US 8,506,833
App. No.
12/695,653
Granted
Aug 13, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for producing a molded body, said method comprising: providing a film comprising a thermoplastic plastic and having a film thickness D ranging from 1 μm to 1000 μm; irradiating the film with ionizing radiation, to produce irradiated regions in the film; thermally reshaping the film into a molded body and generating at least one hollow structure, wherein a temperature of the thermal reshaping remains below the melting temperature for the thermoplastic plastic; removing the irradiated regions, to create pores having a diameter δ from about 10 nm to about 10 μm in the molded body; and removing the molded body from a mold.

Claims (14)

1. A method for producing a molded body, said method comprising:

providing a film comprising a thermoplastic plastic and having a film thickness D ranging from 1 μm to 1000 μm;

irradiating the film with ionizing radiation, to produce an irradiated film having irradiated regions having a radiation dose;

thermally reshaping the irradiated film into a molded body so that a correlation between the radiation dose and the irradiated region is not lost and generating at least one hollow structure, wherein a temperature of the thermal reshaping remains below the melting temperature for the thermoplastic plastic, wherein the at least one hollow structure comprises:

an outside diameter d equal to at least double a value of the film thickness D,

a height h equal to or less than double the value of the outside diameter d,

a wall thickness b greater than 0.02 times the film thickness D and less than or equal to the film thickness D, and

a local curvature radius r greater than 0.2 times and less than or equal to 5 times the wall thickness b;

removing the irradiated regions, to create pores having a diameter δ from about 10 nm to about 10 μm in the molded body, and

removing the molded body from a mold.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the film is irradiated through a mask.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the film is irradiated with heavy ions.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the heavy ions have a prespecified energy above 0.1 MeV/nucleon.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the irradiated regions are removed via a wet-chemical etching process.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 11, 2015
From: KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
To: GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FUER SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH
Reel/Frame 035136/0575 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 11, 2013
From: FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE GMBH
To: KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Reel/Frame 030780/0182 →
Continuity (2)
Division 11632849
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