PFI-BIC: A Small-Company-Centric Knowledge Enhancement Partnership to Accelerate Nanomaterials Innovation

PFI-BIC：以小公司为中心的知识增强合作伙伴关系，加速纳米材料创新

• 批准号: 1237890
• 负责人: James Hutchison
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: University of Oregon Eugene
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1237890&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; BIC; Small; Company; Centric

This Partnership for Innovation project from the University of Oregon (Eugene) proposes to develop the capacity to accelerate the commercialization of inorganic nano-particle technologies. Inorganic nano-particles consist of an inorganic (metal or metal oxide) core 1 to 100 nm in diameter surrounded by a shell of molecular or polymeric coatings. The wide variety of the physical properties of the core materials and the selective binding capabilities of the ligands and coatings comprise a versatile tool kit with commercial applications across nearly every industrial sector. However, commercialization of these nanomaterials has been limited by difficulties in translating the synthesis methods used during discovery research to reliable commercial scale production. This project aims to address research problems at the frontiers of nano-science by developing improved materials measurement and characterization techniques that will enable nanoparticles to be produced and their properties optimized, advancing the state of the art in nanoscience, and thus accelerating the commercialization process itself.The broader impacts of this project are related to economics, education, and diversity. The small companies that participate in the knowledge enhancement partners (KEP) group will develop production techniques that are reproducible, reliable, scalable, fast, efficient, robust, precise, and inexpensive. These improvements will enable large-scale economic opportunities in photovoltaics, solid-state lighting and display technologies. The project will enable the acceleration of the commercialization of nanoparticles in other sectors, including: energy storage, catalysis, information technology, cancer treatment, and environmental remediation. Students and faculty members who participate in this project will learn to conduct basic research in an explicitly technological and industrial context. The KEP will encourage the participation of under-represented groups by offering summer research experiences to community college students.Partners at the inception of this project include lead academic institution,University of Oregon,(Department of Chemistry, Materials Science Institute, Center for Advanced Materials Characterization in Oregon (CAMCOR), and Lundquist College of Business); Small businesses: QD Vision, Lexington, Massachusetts; Voxtel, Beaverton, Oregon; Dune Sciences, Eugene, Oregon; and Hummingbird Scientific, Lacey, Washington; and a Federal agency: The National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Other partner organizations include: Academic (UO Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship and Office of Technology Transfer); Private (Life Technologies); Public (NanoBusiness Commercialization Association, National Nanomanufacturing Network, Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnology Institute; Safer Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing Initiative; and the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership).

俄勒冈大学（Eugene）（Eugene）的创新合作伙伴关系项目提议发展能力，以加速无机纳米粒子技术的商业化。无机纳米颗粒由无机（金属或金属氧化物）核心直径1至100 nm组成，该核心被分子或聚合物涂层包围。核心材料的各种物理特性以及配体和涂料的选择性结合能力包括一个多功能工具套件，几乎每个工业领域都有商业应用。 但是，这些纳米材料的商业化受到将发现研究中使用的合成方法转化为可靠的商业规模生产的困难。 该项目旨在通过开发改进的材料测量和表征技术来解决纳米科学领域的研究问题，这些技术将使纳米颗粒能够生产及其特性优化，从而在纳米科学方面提高了最新技术的状态，从而加速了商业化过程。商业化过程本身。该项目的更广泛的影响与经济学和多样性有关。参与知识增强合作伙伴（KEP）小组的小型公司将开发可再现，可靠，可扩展，快速，高效，健壮，精确且价格便宜的生产技术。 These improvements will enable large-scale economic opportunities in photovoltaics, solid-state lighting and display technologies.该项目将使纳米颗粒在其他领域的商业化加速，包括：储能，催化，信息技术，癌症治疗和环境修复。参加该项目的学生和教职员工将学习在明确的技术和工业环境中进行基础研究。 KEP将通过向社区大学生提供夏季研究经验来鼓励代表性不足的群体的参与。 Small businesses: QD Vision, Lexington, Massachusetts; Voxtel, Beaverton, Oregon; Dune Sciences, Eugene, Oregon; and Hummingbird Scientific, Lacey, Washington; and a Federal agency: The National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Other partner organizations include: Academic (UO Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship and Office of Technology Transfer); Private (Life Technologies);公共（纳米企业商业化协会，国家纳米制造网络，俄勒冈州纳米科学和微技术研究所；更安全的纳米材料和纳米制造计划；以及大学 - 行业示范伙伴关系）。