G8: Sustainable Manufacturing of Solution-Processed Devices on Flexible Substrates Using Nanohybrid Materials

G8：使用纳米混合材料在柔性基板上可持续制造溶液处理器件

• 批准号: 1258336
• 负责人: James Watkins
• 金额: $ 21.99万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 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: 2012-09-15 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1258336&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: G8; Sustainable; Manufacturing; Solution; Processed

This NSF award to University of Massachusetts Amherst funds U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by the G8 Research Councils Initiative ?Structural Bamboo Products.? This is a pilot collaboration among the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Canadian National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), the German Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR),and the United Kingdom Research Councils (RCUK), supporting collaborative research projects selected on a competitive basis that are comprised of researchers from at least three of the partner countries. This multi-national collaboration--Methods for Materials-efficient Manufacturing (M3)-- will perform research on polymer-nanoparticle hybrid materials for sustainable production of advanced technology devices. The M3 team includes the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Rutgers University (U.S.), Tohoku University and the University of Tokyo (Japan), and Institut de Chimie de la Matière condensée de Bordeaux and the UMR CNRS Environnement, Ville, Société (France). The M3 research program focuses on solution-based processing of devices, device layers, components and functional materials on a roll-to-roll production platform, in which hybrid materials containing both polymers and nanoparticles are used to generate functional devices on flexible substrates. One technical goal for the project is development of solution-coatable high dielectric constant device layers comprised of polymer/nanoparticle composites; these layers are the active components of working devices, and progress in this field will advance efficient roll-to-roll flexible device production. A second technical goal is the use of polymer/nanoparticle solutions to form highly transparent emissive nanocomposite films containing optically active nanoparticles, including rare-earth dopes phosphors, as the functional component. U.S. research activities focus on developing the polymer hybrid materials and roll-to-roll processing methods (UMass Amherst), and synthesizing and characterizing the optically active composites (Rutgers). The outcomes from this multinational research project will lead to more materials-efficient and sustainable manufacturing of materials and devices for applications such as energy conversion and storage, flexible electronics and displays, and optoelectronics. Compared to conventional batch vacuum and deposition processes, the solution-based roll-to-roll process can afford lower cost, less waste and significantly lower energy inputs. When combined with innovations in the materials used in the coating process for device fabrication, it is expected that the resultant process will involve fewer steps, no batch changes, commodity-priced materials, lower process temperatures, and drastically lower water usage, thereby reducing direct energy consumption.

美国国家科学基金会向马萨诸塞大学阿姆赫斯特分校颁发的这一奖项，资助美国研究人员参加由八国集团研究理事会倡议（G8 Research Councils Initiative）竞争性选择的项目。结构竹制品。这是美国国家科学基金会、加拿大国家科学与工程研究委员会（NSERC）、法国国家研究局（ANR）、德国德国科学促进会（DFG）、日本科学促进会（JSPS）、俄罗斯基础研究基金会（RFBR）和英国研究委员会（RCUK）之间的试点合作。支持在竞争基础上选出的由至少三个伙伴国家的研究人员组成的合作研究项目。这项名为“材料高效制造方法”（M3）的多国合作项目将研究聚合物-纳米颗粒混合材料，以实现先进技术设备的可持续生产。M3团队包括马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校和罗格斯大学（美国）、东北大学和东京大学（日本）、波尔多matimatire冷凝<s:1> <s:1>材料研究所和UMR CNRS环境、城市、社会<s:2>材料研究所（法国）。M3研究项目的重点是在卷对卷生产平台上对器件、器件层、组件和功能材料进行基于溶液的加工，其中使用含有聚合物和纳米颗粒的混合材料在柔性基板上生成功能器件。该项目的一个技术目标是开发由聚合物/纳米颗粒复合材料组成的可溶液涂层的高介电常数器件层；这些层是工作设备的主动组件，该领域的进展将促进高效的卷对卷柔性设备生产。第二个技术目标是使用聚合物/纳米粒子溶液形成高透明的发射纳米复合膜，其中包含光学活性纳米粒子，包括稀土掺杂荧光粉，作为功能成分。美国的研究活动集中在开发聚合物杂化材料和卷对卷加工方法（马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校），以及合成和表征光学活性复合材料（罗格斯大学）。这项跨国研究项目的成果将为能源转换和存储、柔性电子和显示以及光电子等应用带来更高效、可持续的材料和设备制造。与传统的间歇真空和沉积工艺相比，基于溶液的卷对卷工艺可以提供更低的成本，更少的浪费和显著降低的能源投入。当与设备制造中涂层工艺中使用的材料的创新相结合时，预计最终的工艺将涉及更少的步骤，没有批量更改，商品价格的材料，更低的工艺温度，以及大幅降低的用水量，从而减少直接能源消耗。