Bulk Nanostructured Materials with Two-Dimensional Building Blocks
Abstract
STATEMENT OF WORK: The program will create a new class of bulk nanostructured materials (BNM) using two-dimensional (2D) building blocks. Typically, BNMsare made by top-down approaches such as those based on extensive plastic deformation of metal powders or by consolidating finepowders without defined size, shape or surface chemistry. In contrast, the proposed 2D BNMs will be based on rational assembly of welldefined,single or few sheets of atomic layers. The resulting BNMs could maintain and scale up their single layer properties such as theirhigh effective surface area for making high performance ultracapacitors. They could also exhibit new mechanical, electrical, thermal orionic properties that are not attainable by either the single layer building blocks or their crystalline layered precursors. Some tangiblenew material products include: (1) Bulk graphenic glass, a graphene analogue to bulk metallic glass with extraordinary mechanical,thermal, electrochemical properties and corrosion resistance; (2) Binder~free, graphene and graphene oxide ~playdoughs~ that can betransformed into arbitrary shapes and converted to stiff foams with continuously tunable porosity and (3) Bulk glasses and doughs withother 2D materials such as transitional metal dichalcogenide and clay sheets, or their composite.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Nov 23, 2016
- Source ID
- N000141612838
Entities
People
- Jiaxing Huang
Organizations
- Northwestern University
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy