US Patent 7968489 - Preparing supported catalysts from metal loaded CNTs

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This patent from Hyperion Catalysis teaches manufacturing a carbon nanotube catalyst material useful for petroleum processing. Claim 1 reads:

1. A method for preparing a supported catalyst comprising:

de-aggregating aggregates of multiwalled carbon nanotubes to provide de-aggregated multiwalled carbon nanotubes;

loading metal catalysts or metal catalyst precursors onto the de-aggregated multiwalled carbon nanotubes to form metal-loaded de-aggregated multiwalled carbon nanotubes; and

forming a carbon nanotube structure from the metal-loaded de-aggregated multiwalled carbon nanotubes.