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Graphene Coated Nanoparticles and Nanograins

Descripción del proyecto

La exploración del mundo atómico de las nanopartículas recubiertas de grafeno

El reto de diseñar, caracterizar y comprender las propiedades de una nueva familia de partículas a nivel atómico es una tarea compleja y exigente que requiere unos conocimientos y una experiencia interdisciplinarios avanzados. El proyecto GRANN, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, es una iniciativa de investigación interdisciplinar cuyo objetivo es sintetizar una nueva familia de nanopartículas recubiertas de grafeno monocapa de alta calidad y nanogranos de grafeno. Se investigará su actividad catalítica, estabilidad química y características ópticas para su posible uso en catálisis industrial, células solares y química interestelar. El proyecto reunirá los conocimientos de la ciencia de superficies, la óptica, la nanociencia y la astrofísica para desarrollar nuevos sistemas que podrían servir como primeros modelos de laboratorio de nanopartículas catalizadoras para la química de superficies interestelares.

Objetivo

In a truly cross-disciplinary research project encompassing surface science, optics, nano-science, astrophysics and chemistry we will synthesize a novel family of high quality mono-layer graphene coated nanoparticles and graphene nanograins with new chemical and optical properties and investigate their catalytic activity, chemical stability and optical characteristics to gauge their relevance for and applicability in industrial catalysis, solar cells, and interstellar chemistry.

This will be accomplished by extending existing expertise, knowledge and methods developed by us and by international colleagues for graphene synthesis, graphene reactivity and chemical functionalization, graphene coatings on industrially relevant samples and interstellar surface astrochemistry on carbonaceous materials, into the nanoparticle regime. Combined with state-of-the-art surface science characterization methods with emphasis on scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy, high resolution transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and thermal desorption mass spectrometry, complemented by Raman and transmission spectroscopy, this will enable us to design, characterize, and understand the properties of this new family of particles at the atomic level.

The vision is to harness and combine the remarkable properties of graphene and nanoparticles to create systems with entirely new and unexplored characteristics, to tune these characteristics to be useful for real-world applications, and to exploit the new systems as the first realistic laboratory models of catalytic nanoparticles for interstellar surface chemistry.

This ambitious and cross-disciplinary research program will predominantly take place at the Surface Dynamics Laboratory at Aarhus University which is headed by the applicant, but will also involve local, national and international collaborators.

Régimen de financiación

ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant

Institución de acogida

AARHUS UNIVERSITET
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 1 996 147,00
Dirección
NORDRE RINGGADE 1
8000 Aarhus C
Dinamarca

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Región
Danmark Midtjylland Østjylland
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 1 996 147,00

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