PFI-BIC: Market-Guided Ionic Liquid Discovery and Design

PFI-BIC：市场引导的离子液体发现和设计

• 批准号: 1237829
• 负责人: Edward Maginn
• 金额: $ 54.05万
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1237829&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; BIC; Market; Guided; Ionic

This Partnership for Innovation project from the University of Notre Dame will discover, design, and translate ionic liquids (ILs) into new products and processes that are innovative and might eventually be ready to be marketed. Three target markets will be pursued: 1) development of processes to efficiently turn 'waste' heat into useful electricity; 2) finding new environmentally benign ways to deposit hard metal coatings on metal surfaces; and 3) developing improved 'ultracapacitors' (devices that store electrical energy and can be charged and discharged rapidly over millions of times). Each application will utilize an IL, defined as a pure salt that is liquid around room temperature. ILs are relatively newly discovered compounds that have many unique properties not found in conventional liquids, such as virtually no vapor pressure, inherent electrical conductivity, high thermal stability, and large electrochemical windows. These properties will be exploited in this project to develop new products and processes that address large market needs. The broader impacts of this research are that it will address issues across multiple cross-sections of society that are of critical importance to the U.S. and world economy. It will provide hands-on technology design and implementation opportunities in the area of ionic liquids. In the long term, there will be opportunities to optimize candidate ionic liquids for several production-scale applications while at the same time reducing volume manufacturing costs. The project will allow two small, Innovation Park Notre Dame-based businesses to help South Bend, Indiana, a traditional Midwestern manufacturing city, re-invent itself. Partners at the inception of this project are the University of Notre Dame (lead institution, Notre Dame, IN). Small businesses: Echogen Power Systems Inc. (Akron, OH); Ionic Research Technologies LLC (South Bend, IN); Neo Industries LLC (Portage, IN). Large businesses: Maxwell Technologies, Inc. (San Diego, CA); and United Technologies Research Center (East Hartford, CT). Additional partner organizations that are not part of the KEP groups are the Notre Dame ESTEEM professional science and engineering master's program, Innovation Park Notre Dame, Michiana TechConnection, and the Notre Dame Master of Science in Patent Law program.

这项来自圣母大学的创新合作项目将发现、设计并将离子液体（ILs）转化为具有创新性的新产品和工艺，并可能最终准备上市。将追求三个目标市场：1)开发有效地将“废热”转化为有用电力的工艺；2)寻找新的环保方法在金属表面沉积硬质金属涂层；3)开发改进的“超级电容器”（一种储存电能的设备，可以快速充电和放电超过数百万次）。每个应用程序将使用IL，定义为纯盐，在室温下是液体。il是一种相对较新的化合物，具有许多传统液体所没有的独特性质，例如几乎没有蒸汽压、固有的导电性、高热稳定性和大电化学窗口。在这个项目中，这些特性将被用来开发新的产品和工艺，以满足巨大的市场需求。这项研究的更广泛的影响是，它将解决对美国和世界经济至关重要的社会多个横截面的问题。它将在离子液体领域提供动手技术设计和实施的机会。从长远来看，将有机会优化几种生产规模应用的候选离子液体，同时降低批量制造成本。该项目将允许两家小型的、以创新公园为基地的企业帮助印第安纳州的南本德，一个传统的中西部制造业城市，重塑自我。合作伙伴在这个项目的开始是圣母大学（牵头机构，圣母大学，印第安纳州）。小型企业：Echogen Power Systems Inc.（俄亥俄州阿克伦）；Ionic Research Technologies LLC (South Bend， IN)；Neo Industries LLC （Portage， IN）。大型企业：Maxwell Technologies， Inc.（加州圣地亚哥）；联合技术研究中心（East Hartford， CT）。不属于KEP小组的其他合作组织包括圣母大学ESTEEM专业科学和工程硕士项目、圣母大学创新园、Michiana TechConnection和圣母大学专利法科学硕士项目。