Materials World Network: Templated Ordered Endohedral Fullerenes as Building Blocks for Quantum Computing

材料世界网络：模板化有序内面富勒烯作为量子计算的构建模块

• 批准号: 0710467
• 负责人: Yonathan Thio
• 金额: $ 54万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0710467&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Materials; World; Network; Templated; Ordered

This grant provides funding for development of material systems and assembly methods to create highly ordered arrays of functional nanomaterials aimed at components of quantum computation. Endohedral fullerene dimers containing nitrogen atoms will be synthesized and templated into organic matrices of either cylinder phases of a nano-phase-separated block copolymer, or incorporated by complexation with a rigid ditopic host into a nano-rod. To achieve the appropriate cylinder diameter using the block copolymer strategy, triblock copolymers, highly incompatible diblock copolymers, and homopolymer-diblock copolymer blends will be employed. For the nano-rod strategy, bis- cyclodextrins and bis-calixarenes will be synthesized. Once templated, the anisotropic fullerene-containing organic materials will then be aligned using mechanical shear, solvent annealing, magnetic fields, or a combination of these methods. Quantum computing demonstration on the templated and ordered endohedral fullerene materials will be accomplished using electron spin resonance.This research is part of an integrated joint effort between researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in the US and Oxford University in the UK. The Georgia Tech group is working on the synthesis and characterization of hierarchically ordered nanocomposite materials. The Oxford group is leading an extensive national research activity to create the necessary components for a practical quantum information processor. This project will involve undergraduate and graduate students that will be trained in the area of polymers and nanostructured composite materials. The students' education will be enhanced by the international experience and training received in collaborating laboratories in the UK. High school students and a high school teacher will also participate in laboratory research during the summers. This highly multidisciplinary project will provide fundamental and applied knowledge for a variety of current and future industries. While the promise of quantum computers is great, the technical challenges are far greater. Thus, progress toward such a device will broadly and significantly impact many fields. In general, the results from the proposed activity will impact construction methodologies for all materials based on the inclusion of functional nanostructures into larger devices.

该赠款为开发材料系统和组装方法提供资金，以创建高度有序的功能纳米材料阵列，用于量子计算组件。 将合成含有氮原子的内嵌富勒烯二聚体，并将其模板化到纳米相分离的嵌段共聚物的圆柱相的有机基质中，或者通过与刚性ditopic主体络合而并入纳米棒中。为了使用嵌段共聚物策略实现适当的圆柱体直径，将采用三嵌段共聚物、高度不相容的二嵌段共聚物和均聚物-二嵌段共聚物共混物。对于纳米棒策略，将合成双环糊精和双杯芳烃。一旦被模板化，然后将使用机械剪切、溶剂退火、磁场或这些方法的组合来对准各向异性的含富勒烯的有机材料。将利用电子自旋共振完成对模板化和有序的内嵌富勒烯材料的量子计算演示。这项研究是美国格鲁吉亚理工学院（格鲁吉亚理工学院）和英国牛津大学研究人员综合联合努力的一部分。 格鲁吉亚技术小组正在研究分级有序纳米复合材料的合成和表征。牛津小组正在领导一项广泛的国家研究活动，为实用的量子信息处理器创建必要的组件。该项目将涉及本科生和研究生，他们将在聚合物和纳米结构复合材料领域接受培训。学生的教育将通过在英国合作实验室获得的国际经验和培训得到加强。 高中学生和高中教师也将在夏季参加实验室研究。这个高度多学科的项目将为各种当前和未来的行业提供基础和应用知识。虽然量子计算机的前景是巨大的，但技术挑战要大得多。因此，朝着这种设备的进展将广泛而显著地影响许多领域。总的来说，拟议活动的结果将影响基于将功能性纳米结构纳入更大设备的所有材料的构建方法。