In-Situ and In-Operando Monitoring of Nanostructure Growth In Green Solvents

绿色溶剂中纳米结构生长的原位和现场监测

• 批准号: 472964-2015
• 负责人: Charpentier, Paul
• 金额: $ 10.92万
• 依托单位: University of Western Ontario
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=564890
• 关键词: Situ; Operando; Monitoring; Nanostructure; Growth

This NSERC Research Tools Infrastructure (RTI) will provide our team of nanotechnology researchers at Western with a small scale low voltage benchtop TEM for in-situ studies using green solvents. Our focus will be on measuring nanowire and polymer nanocomposite formation during synthesis (in-situ) and during their function (in-operando), requiring a dedicated instrument. Nanowires confined dimensions allow for unique properties in energy transfer and advanced polymer composites. This provides them with new abilities in energy transfer (fuel, solar cells and lithium batteries), catalysis (controlling active sites size and orientation), biomedical engineering (enhanced mechanical properties for bone and dental cements) and drug delivery (transdermal patches, etc.).

这个NSERC研究工具基础设施(RTI)将为我们在WESTERN的纳米技术研究人员团队提供一台小型低压台式透射电子显微镜，用于使用绿色溶剂进行现场研究。我们的重点将是测量纳米线和聚合物纳米复合材料在合成过程中(原位)和它们的功能期间(手术中)的形成，这需要专用的仪器。纳米线的有限尺寸使其在能量转移和先进聚合物复合材料中具有独特的性能。这为它们在能量转移(燃料、太阳能电池和锂电池)、催化(控制活性部位的大小和方向)、生物医学工程(增强骨和牙科水泥的机械性能)和药物输送(透皮贴片等)方面提供了新的能力。