Doped Glassy Carbon Materials (DGC): Their Synthesis and Investigation of Their Properties

该奖项是在材料化学和化学加工倡议中颁发的，以支持俄亥俄州立大学Callstrom教授和McCreery教授的合作研究。联合资金由化学、材料研究、化学和热系统部门提供。研究的重点是开发新的合成途径来掺杂玻璃碳材料，并对其性质进行研究。这些工程材料很可能被用作催化电极。掺杂的玻璃碳材料将在低温下通过热分解可取向的聚芳基-二乙炔来制备，以控制所得碳材料的结构。具有催化加氢、二氧还原和甲醇氧化活性的过渡金属在分解前与二乙炔聚合物共价结合，以特异性地控制其在玻碳材料中的浓度和活性。

This award is made in the Materials Chemistry and Chemical Processing Initiative in support of the collaborative research of Professors Callstrom and McCreery at Ohio State University. Joint funding is provided by the Divisions of Chemistry, Materials Research, and Chemical and Thermal Systems. The thrust of the research is the development of new synthetic routes to doped glassy carbon materials and an investigation of their properties. These engineered materials are likely to find use as catalytic electrodes. Doped glassy carbon materials will be prepared at low temperatures by thermal decomposition of poly(aryl- diacetylenes) that are amenable to orientation in order to control the structure of the resultant carbon materials. Transition metals with catalytic activity towards hydrogenation, dioxygen reduction and methanol oxidation will be covalently bound to the diacetylene polymers, prior to decomposition to specifically control their concentration and activity in the glassy carbon materials.