HIGH THROUGHPUT INORGANIC NANOMATERIALS DISCOVERY

高通量无机纳米材料的发现

• 批准号: EP/D038391/1
• 负责人: Xue Wang
• 金额: $ 18.04万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FD038391%2F1
• 关键词: THROUGHPUT; INORGANIC; NANOMATERIALS; DISCOVERY

The current advancement of technology very much depends upon the discovery of new materials. It has been known for some time that combinations of elements not largely involving carbon (called inorganic materials) can have important uses in areas from electronics, computing, UV protection in products, to harnessing energy from the sun. In particular, when inorganic particles are very small, typically made of a few hundred atoms (called nanomaterials), they become can have unusual and exciting properties. The discovery of such nanomaterials very much is hampered by our inability to make these materials fast enough and then to be able to test them adequately for their properties.The proposed research seeks to develop a new way of making and discovering inorganic nanomaterials using a very fast approach. This project is seeking to discovery better nanomaterials, which can absorb the suns rays (as an free energy source), and use this energy to split water into its constituents, hydrogen and oxygen (in a process known as photocatalysis). The hydrogen can then be used for powering cars or devices of the future. Such a process is important to sustain the energy requirements of mankind on this earth when our fossil fuels (e.g. oil) are exhausted.

目前的技术进步在很大程度上取决于新材料的发现。一段时间以来，人们已经知道，不主要涉及碳的元素（称为无机材料）的组合可以在电子，计算，产品中的紫外线防护以及利用太阳能等领域中具有重要用途。特别是，当无机颗粒非常小，通常由几百个原子组成（称为纳米材料）时，它们变得可以具有不寻常和令人兴奋的特性。这种纳米材料的发现很大程度上受到我们无法足够快地制造这些材料的阻碍，然后能够充分测试它们的特性。拟议的研究旨在开发一种使用非常快速的方法制造和发现无机纳米材料的新方法。该项目正在寻求发现更好的纳米材料，它可以吸收太阳射线（作为一种自由能源），并利用这种能量将水分解为氢和氧（在一个称为氢的过程中）。然后，氢气可以用于为未来的汽车或设备提供动力。当我们的化石燃料（例如石油）耗尽时，这样的过程对于维持地球上人类的能量需求是重要的。