SBIR Phase I: TBNTBN

该SBIR第一阶段项目将开发一种纳米工程聚合物，高度支化的固体材料，将螯合和有效吸附水性金属。 金属捕获量是目前使用的粉末活性炭的60倍。 所使用的材料可以在广泛的浓度范围内、在广泛的废物流温度范围内和在一定的pH值范围内捕获金属。 该形式可以是微尺寸颗粒，也可以将其设计成固体过滤介质。拟议项目的更广泛/商业影响将是捕获污染工业用水或气体排放流的金属。 2000年，全世界的工业生产了12亿吨对环境影响最大的七种重金属。如果成功，该技术的市场已经存在。

This SBIR Phase I project will develop a nano-engineered polymeric, highly-branched solid material that will sequester and also adsorb waterborne metals efficiently. Metal capture is 60 times greater, gram-for-gram, than the powdered activated carbon currently used. The materials to be used can capture metals over broad concentrations, over a wide range of waste stream temperatures, and over a range of pH levels. The form can be micro-dimensional particles or they can be engineered into solid filter media.The broader/commercial impacts of the proposed project will be in the capture of metals contaminating industrial water or gaseous emission streams. In 2000, industry worldwide produced 1.2 billion tons of seven heavy metals of greatest environmental concern. If successful, a market for the technology already exists.