SBIR Phase I: Bendable Ceramic Paper Membranes

SBIR 第一阶段：可弯曲陶瓷纸膜

• 批准号: 0910419
• 负责人: Qi Zhao
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Novarials Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0910419&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Bendable; Ceramic; Paper

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project addresses the fabrication and characterization of unprecedented high performance and low cost ceramic membranes - Bendable Ceramic Nanowire Membranes. Membrane-based separation and filtration is a significant part of modern industries. Organic polymer membranes, due to their low manufacture cost and flexible feature, are dominating these markets. Ceramic membranes, despite their intrinsically superior properties, have not been widely adopted due to their high manufacture cost and rigid structures. In this program, Novarials will apply a novel fabrication strategy to make next-generation ceramic membranes based on high quality and low cost ceramic nanowires. These ceramic membranes (1) will be as bendable and flexible as polymer membranes so that they can be integrated into spiral wound systems to achieve high membrane packing density which is 5 to 10 times that of conventional ceramic membranes; (2) will be manufactured at low cost which is 10~20% of conventional ceramic membranes; (3) will be pure ceramic without organic additives, and thus pertain all the superior properties of ceramic materials; (4) will posses nanosized pore of 2 to 100nm in diameter for ultrafiltration where flexible glass fiber membranes failed.These ceramic nanowire membranes will be a disruptive technology in membrane industry. The unprecedented combination of many advantages of the ceramic membranes including flexibility and bendability, low manufacture cost, high stability to temperature, chemical inertness to acids, bases and chlorine, long operation life, as well as nanosized pores, will make them quickly penetrate into the current markets of conventional ceramic membranes. In addition, the ceramic membranes will be a strong competitor to current organic polymer membrane-dominated markets and a high potential candidate for new applications where conventional ceramic membranes failed due to high cost and where polymer membranes failed due to low stability.This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).

这个小型企业创新研究阶段I项目解决了前所未有的高性能和低成本陶瓷膜的制造和表征 - 可弯曲的陶瓷纳米线膜。基于膜的分离和过滤是现代行业的重要组成部分。有机聚合物膜由于其制造成本低和灵活的特征而占主导地位。尽管陶瓷膜本质上具有优势，但由于其高生产成本和刚性结构，但并未被广泛采用。在该计划中，诺维尔人将采用一种新颖的制造策略来根据高质量和低成本的陶瓷纳米线制造下一代陶瓷膜。这些陶瓷膜（1）将与聚合物膜一样弯曲和柔性，因此可以将它们整合到螺旋伤口系统中，以达到高膜堆积密度，是常规陶瓷膜的5至10倍； （2）将以低成本制造，占常规陶瓷膜的10〜20％； （3）将是没有有机添加剂的纯陶瓷，因此将与陶瓷材料的所有优质特性有关； （4）将具有直径为2至100nm的纳米孔，以实现柔性玻璃纤维膜失败。这些陶瓷纳米线膜将是膜工业中的破坏性技术。陶瓷膜的许多优势的前所未有的组合，包括柔韧性和弯曲性，低制造成本，高度稳定性，对酸，碱和氯的化学惰性，较长的运行寿命以及纳米毛孔，以及它们将使它们迅速渗透到传统陶瓷膜的当前市场中。此外，陶瓷膜将成为当前有机聚合物膜为主导的市场的强大竞争对手，并且是新应用的高潜在候选者，在这些应用中，传统陶瓷膜由于高成本而失败，并且由于低稳定性而导致的聚合物膜失败。由于低稳定性，这些奖项是根据2009年的《美国恢复和复兴法》（Publinevestment of Aclovent of Acluct of Acluct of Acluct of Acluct of Acluct of Acluct and Laubs Lave of Acluct and Recovestment Act Act of 2009-5）（111-5）。