SNM: Scalable Volume-NanoManufacturing of Unique Nanoparticles by Nano-templated Printing, Deposition, and Exfoliation for Energy and Bio/Chemical Sensing

为了在给定的应用中具有最佳的性能，纳米颗粒必须以均匀的尺寸和精确的形状，结构和成分制造。 这个可扩展的纳米制造（SNM）奖支持一种创新的方法，以实现这种均匀性，在制造一个新的能源转换磷光体纳米粒子类。这种方法被称为“模板剥离沉积纳米打印”（n-Printed），与传统的化学合成方法有着根本的不同。 新方法使用模板，并可能使广泛的纳米粒子类型的生产适用于广泛的领域和行业，包括生物/化学传感，固态照明，显示器，电池和燃料电池。这项研究的成功将有利于美国在纳米技术方面的竞争力和领导地位，并有助于美国工业，从而产生重大的经济影响。为了克服纳米颗粒制造中的关键挑战，这种新方法，n-PrintTED，通过使用模板来限制材料沉积/反应，从而调节材料的沉积/反应，n-PrintTED技术可以改变纳米粒子的形状和位置，而不是“自由形式”的反应; n-PrintTED技术还在沉积方法、材料选择以及加工/反应条件和顺序方面开辟了一系列新的可能性。因此，n-PrintTED提供了许多新的方法来制造具有独特形状，结构和组成（因此属性）的NP，这些都是当前方法无法实现的。 因此，n-PrintTED可用于广泛的新纳米颗粒。该项目将重点关注n-PrintTED在新型纳米粒子中的应用，以实现能量的高效上/下转换，并将采取一种整合广泛学科和知识的方法。

To have the best possible performance in a given application, nanoparticles must be manufactured with uniform size and precise shape, structure and composition. This Scalable NanoManufacturing (SNM) award supports an innovative approach to attaining such uniformity in the manufacturing of a new class of energy conversion phosphor nanoparticles. This approach, termed "nanoprint by templated exfoliateable deposition" (n-PrinTED), is fundamentally different from traditional chemical synthesis. The new method uses a template and potentially enables the production of a broad range of nanoparticle types applicable to a wide range of fields and industries, including bio/chemical sensing, solid state lighting, displays, batteries, and fuel cells. The success of the research will benefit U.S. competitiveness and leadership in nanotechnology and aid U.S industry, leading to significant economic impact.To overcome the key challenges in nanoparticle fabrication, this new method, n-PrinTED, fabricates nanoparticles (NPs) by using a template to restrict material deposition/reaction, which regulates the materials' (hence the final NP's) shape and location, rather than a "free-form" reaction; and n-PrinTED also opens up a broad range of new possibilities in deposition methods, materials choices, and processing/reaction conditions and sequences. Therefore, n-PrinTED offers many new ways to fabricate NPs with unique shapes, structures, and compositions (hence properties) that are unachievable by current methods. n-PrinTED can thus be used for a broad range of new nanoparticles. The project will focus on the application of n-PrinTED in new NPs for efficient up/down conversion of energy and will take an approach that integrates a broad range of disciplines and knowledge.