CAREER: Development and Application of Crumpled Graphene Oxide-Based Nanocomposites as a Platform Material for Advanced Water Treatment

1454656 FortnerCAREER：开发和应用的破碎氧化石墨烯基纳米复合材料作为一个平台材料先进的水处理水是至关重要的可持续性在21世纪世纪。 水的可持续性有许多方面，其中之一是开发利用新材料的新处理工艺。这项职业建议直接造福于社会，因为它将提供基本的科学理解和信息，以帮助解决持续开发新型和先进水处理技术的关键全球需求。主要研究者将通过在同行评审期刊上发表、在会议上发表以及通过在美国化学学会全国会议上组织专题讨论会，广泛传播项目相关的科学成果。此外，该项目还包括一个为期五年的综合教育和推广计划，其目的是1。为圣路易斯地区约500名学生提供独特的教育机会，其中包括450多名6- 12年级的学生; 2.）为众多本科生研究人员（20-30名学生）创造具体的和实践的，与项目相关的研究机会; 3.）直接资助两名博士从技术上讲，该项目旨在系统地设计，从根本上表征和广泛展示3D，褶皱氧化石墨烯平台复合材料，以提高性能，并在某些情况下，实现先进水处理技术的创新（重新）设计策略。该项目是非常新颖和及时的，因为迄今为止，工程化的纳米复合材料褶皱氧化石墨烯材料尚未被评估为先进的水基聚合物的平台材料或多功能膜组件，尽管具有明显的材料/工程优势，包括：本征孔隙率、高度可定制的光催化和磁性、可调的（碳）表面化学和物理尺寸/形状状态，高水稳定性和化学稳定性，以及可扩展的生产路线。这项工作的基本性质不仅将直接支持和告知下一代基于石墨烯的复合结构用于环境应用，而且还将为广泛的研究人员提供服务，这些研究人员专注于工程（弯曲）碳基纳米结构，用于先进的传感，催化剂，光催化剂，抗菌/抗菌表面等应用材料。

1454656FortnerCAREER: Development and Application of Crumpled Graphene Oxide-Based Nanocomposites as a Platform Material for Advanced Water TreatmentWater is critical to sustainability in the 21st Century. There are numerous aspects to water sustainability with one of those being development of new treatment processes which utilize new materials. This CAREER proposal directly benefits society as it will provide fundamental scientific understanding and information to help address the critical, global need for continued development of novel and advanced water treatment technologies. The PI will broadly disseminate project related scientific results through publication in peer-reviewed journals, presentation at conferences, and through the organization of symposiums at national meetings of the American Chemical Society. Additionally, this project incorporates a five year, comprehensive educational and outreach plan, which is designed to 1.) provide unique educational opportunities for an estimated 500 students in the St. Louis region, including over 450, 6-12th grade students; 2.) create specific and hands-on, project related, research opportunities for numerous undergraduate researchers (20-30 students); and 3.) directly support two Ph.D. students.Technically, this project aims to systematically engineer, fundamentally characterize and broadly demonstrate 3D, crumpled graphene oxide platform composites for improved performance and, in some cases, enabling innovative (re)design strategies for advanced water treatment technologies. This project is highly novel and timely in that engineered, nanocomposite crumpled graphene oxide materials have, to date, not been evaluated as platform materials for advanced, aqueous based photocatalysis or as multifunctional membrane components, despite distinct material/engineering advantages, including: intrinsic porosities, highly tailorable photocatalytic and magnetic properties, tunable (carbon) surface chemistry and physical size/shape regimes, high aqueous and chemical stabilities, and scalable production routes. The fundamental nature of this work will not only directly support and inform the next generation of 3D graphene based composite structures for environmental applications but will also serve a wide range of researchers focused on engineering (curved) carbon-based nanostructures for advanced sensing, catalysts, photovoltaics, antifouling/antimicrobial surfaces, among other applied materials.