SBIR Phase I: Carbon Nanocone Containing Materials and its Potential in Polymer Reinforcement

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目将开发包含一种最近发现的碳形式的新型先进复合材料，称为碳纳米锥(CNC)和碳纳米盘(CND)。该公司已经从提出这种新型材料的挪威公司那里获得了独家经营权，这项研究将专注于利用CNCS和CNDS的独特结构、形貌和性能来开发新型先进复合材料。这项研究将结合该公司开发的先进混合技术，将这些纳米材料均匀地分布到聚合物复合材料的基质中，目的是研究复合材料的电、机械和热性能。如果这项研究成功并实现商业化，其更广泛的影响将是开发一种新型的先进聚合物复合材料，用于隔热、高强度结构材料和导电聚合物复合材料，可用于从微电子到工程部件的许多应用。这种新型材料的成本也将低于碳纳米管(CNT)。这项研究还旨在开发更简单、成本更低的复合材料制造工艺。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop new classes of advanced composites containing a recently discovered form of carbon, called the carbon nanocones (CNC) and carbon nanodisks (CND). The company has acquired exclusive rights from the Norwegian company that came up with this new class of materials, and this research will focus on taking advantage of the unique structure, morphology and properties of CNCs and CNDs to develop new classes of advanced composites. The research will combine the advanced mixing technology developed by the company to uniformly distribute these nanomaterials into the matrix of the polymer composite with the aim to study the electrical, mechanical and thermal properties of the composite materials.The broader impact of this research, if successful and commercially implemented, will be in the development of a new class of advanced polymer composites for use in thermal insulation, high-strength structural materials, and conducting polymer composites, which can be used in many applications, from microelectronics to engineering components. The new class of materials will also be of lower cost than the carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The research also aims to develop manufacturing processes for the composites which will be much simpler and less expensive.