Materials World Network: New Energy Materials Based on Graphene: Asymmetric Functionalization and Self-Assembly

石墨烯已被证明表现出上级特性，对于作为各种能量相关设备和许多其他纳米或微电子设备中的“构建块”的潜在应用具有吸引力。对于大多数应用，石墨烯片的受控功能化对于将单个石墨烯片区域特异性连接成分层组织的多维功能系统是必不可少的。该奖项支持凯斯西储大学（CWRU，克利夫兰）和清华大学/北京理工大学（中国北京）的高级参与者和学生之间的研究合作旅行，研究石墨烯片相对表面的不对称功能化与不同的化学试剂进行自组装。目的是设计和制备非对称改性石墨烯片及其自组装多功能材料，具有精确控制的二维和三维结构，可用于能源相关应用。研究合作的另一个好处是创造一个教育和研究培训环境，学生可以在此环境中学习，来自参与机构的研究生和本科生共同致力于将材料科学转移到与能源相关的应用的功能设备。

Graphene has been shown to exhibit superior properties attractive for potential applications as 'building blocks' in various energy-related devices and many other nano- or micro-electronics. For most of the applications, controlled functionalization of graphene sheets is essential for the region-specific connections of individual graphene sheets into hierarchically-organized multi-dimensional functional systems. This award supports travel for research collaboration between senior participants and students at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU, Cleveland) and Tsinghua University / Beijing Institute of Technology (Beijing, China) on the asymmetric functionalization of the opposite surfaces of graphene sheets with different chemical reagents for self-assembling. The objective is to design and prepare asymmetrically-modified graphene sheets and their self-assembled multifunctional materials with precisely-controlled two-dimensional and three-dimensional architectures useful for energy-related applications.An additional benefit from the research collaboration is to create an education and research training environment where students (graduate and undergraduate) from participating institutions work together on the transfer of materials science to functional devices for energy-related applications.