Controlling nano-carbon complexity and function

该项目旨在开发融合不同外场的多功能连续流动薄膜微流控器件技术，包括与脉冲激光耦合的创新磁场或电场，以获得目前方法无效或用途有限的新型纳米碳材料。这项技术将允许对碳转化为具有可调性能的功能材料以及纳米碳的自组装以及纳米碳材料复合材料的精细控制，并进行实时监控。了解它们的基本性质，包括光致发光，将成为目标，以便在应用程序中利用这些性质来产生新的工艺和产品。

The project aims to develop versatile continuous flow thin film microfluidic device technology incorporating different external fields, including innovative magnetic or electric fields coupled with pulsed lasers, for gaining access to novel nano-carbon material for which current methods are ineffective or of limited utility. The technology will allow exquisite control, with real time monitoring, on reforming of carbon into functional material with tunable properties, along with the self assembly of nano-carbon, and fabricating composites of nano-carbon material. Understanding their fundamental properties including photoluminescence will be targeted, for leveraging the properties in applications to generate new processes and products.