Functional Conducting Polymers and Composites

功能性导电聚合物和复合材料

• 批准号: 250637-2012
• 负责人: Freund, Michael
• 金额: $ 2.41万
• 依托单位: University of Manitoba
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=570929
• 关键词: Functional; Conducting; Polymers; Composites

The research to be performed in this program will focus on developing conducting polymer composites for areas in the fields of electronics and energy conversion. Organic-based electronics are providing new mechanisms of operation that promise to overcome current limitations of silicon-based devices, including cost and miniaturization. However, there remain significant challenges for integrating organic materials into devices such as memory and transistors. The proposed research program will focus on the development of new conducting polymer composites for use in dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), commonly used electronic devices. In collaboration with electrical and computer engineers, the efforts will focus on increasing read/right speeds and memory retention (i.e., reducing volatility). In addition, issues ranging from device fabrication to integration into existing electronic platforms and processes will be addressed. Given the scale of projected energy needs as well as the rapid climate change associated with growing CO2 levels in the atmosphere, there is a major push by governments to increase the rate of innovation and discovery in the area of carbon-neutral solar fuel production. This program will help address this need by developing membranes that will be a key component of standalone artificial photosynthetic devices to directly produce solar fuels. Currently, the production of membranes for these devices represents a technology gap that must be addressed so that catalysts and light absorbers being developed by researcher around the world can be integrated into a working system. Existing collaborations with researchers at Caltech and MIT leading research programs developing light absorbers and catalysts will allow rapid translation of advances in membrane design into proof of concept devices and will therefore have a significant impact in this quickly advancing field. Students involved in these studies will be uniquely trained and highly desirable in the rapidly growing renewable energy sector of the Canadian economy.

该计划的研究重点是开发用于电子和能源转换领域的导电聚合物复合材料。 有机基电子器件提供了新的操作机制，有望克服硅基器件目前的局限性，包括成本和小型化。 然而，将有机材料集成到诸如存储器和晶体管的器件中仍然存在重大挑战。 拟议的研究计划将侧重于开发用于动态随机存取存储器（DRAM）的新型导电聚合物复合材料，这是常用的电子设备。 在与电气和计算机工程师的合作中，这些努力将集中在提高读取/正确速度和内存保留（即，降低挥发性）。 此外，从器件制造到集成到现有电子平台和工艺的问题也将得到解决。 考虑到预计能源需求的规模以及与大气中二氧化碳含量增加相关的快速气候变化，各国政府大力推动提高碳中性太阳能燃料生产领域的创新和发现率。 该计划将通过开发膜来帮助解决这一需求，该膜将成为独立的人工光合装置的关键组成部分，以直接生产太阳能燃料。 目前，这些设备的膜的生产代表了一个必须解决的技术差距，以便世界各地的研究人员开发的催化剂和光吸收剂可以集成到一个工作系统中。 与加州理工学院和麻省理工学院的研究人员的现有合作开发光吸收剂和催化剂的领先研究项目将允许将膜设计的进步快速转化为概念设备的证明，因此将在这个快速发展的领域产生重大影响。 参与这些研究的学生将在加拿大经济快速增长的可再生能源领域受到独特的培训和高度重视。