Materials World Network: New Energy Materials Based on Graphene: Asymmetric Functionalization and Self-Assembly

石墨烯在各种能源相关设备和许多其他纳米或微电子产品中作为“构建块”具有潜在的应用吸引力。在大多数应用中，控制石墨烯片的功能化对于单个石墨烯片的特定区域连接到分层组织的多维功能系统至关重要。该奖项支持资深参与者与凯斯西储大学（CWRU，克利夫兰）和清华大学/北京理工大学（北京，中国）的学生之间的研究合作，研究石墨烯片反面表面的不对称功能化，使用不同的化学试剂进行自组装。目标是设计和制备非对称修饰石墨烯片及其自组装多功能材料，具有精确控制的二维和三维结构，可用于能源相关应用。研究合作的另一个好处是创造了一个教育和研究培训环境，来自参与机构的学生（研究生和本科生）共同努力，将材料科学转移到能源相关应用的功能设备上。

Graphene has been shown to exhibit superior properties attractive for potential applications as 'building blocks' in various energy-related devices and many other nano- or micro-electronics. For most of the applications, controlled functionalization of graphene sheets is essential for the region-specific connections of individual graphene sheets into hierarchically-organized multi-dimensional functional systems. This award supports travel for research collaboration between senior participants and students at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU, Cleveland) and Tsinghua University / Beijing Institute of Technology (Beijing, China) on the asymmetric functionalization of the opposite surfaces of graphene sheets with different chemical reagents for self-assembling. The objective is to design and prepare asymmetrically-modified graphene sheets and their self-assembled multifunctional materials with precisely-controlled two-dimensional and three-dimensional architectures useful for energy-related applications.An additional benefit from the research collaboration is to create an education and research training environment where students (graduate and undergraduate) from participating institutions work together on the transfer of materials science to functional devices for energy-related applications.