US Patent 8092904 - Optical article including a SWCNT antistatic layer

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Static charges can attract dust and have an adverse effect during the manufacture of optical articles such as the glass used in flat panel displays. This patent from 3M teaches a solution to this problem by using an antistatic layer formed from single walled carbon nanotubes. Claim 1 reads:

1. An optical article comprising:

a first optical layer;

a second optical layer; and

an antistatic layer disposed between the first and second optical layers, the antistatic layer comprising conducting particles having an aspect ratio greater than about 10 and comprising single-walled carbon nanotubes having a length of 100 um or less and a diameter of 2 nm or less, wherein the antistatic layer has an average total thickness of less than about 10 nm and exhibits a surface resistivity of greater than about 1×108 ohms/sq.