CAREER: SusChEM: Hybrid Nanoparticles of the Copper Sulfides

职业：SusChEM：硫化铜的混合纳米颗粒

• 批准号: 1253105
• 负责人: Janet Macdonald
• 金额: $ 62.5万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-05-01 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1253105&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; SusChEM; Hybrid; Nanoparticles; Copper

Janet E Macdonald from Vanderbilt University is supported by the Macromolecular, Supramolecular and Nanochemistry Program in the Division of Chemistry and the Sustainable Chemistry, Engineering and Materials (SusChEM) initiative to pursue research into the preparation of new photocatalysts based on nanoparticles of the family of copper sulfides. The research aims to develop shape and size controlled syntheses to new and underexplored phases of the copper sulfides, and to gain a fundamental understanding of their crystallographic structures and photoluminescence phenomena. Syntheses of hybrid metal-semiconductor nanoparticles of the copper sulfides will also be developed and studied for their photoinduced charge separation and application towards photocatalytic water splitting to give H2 gas.These syntheses and new nanoparticles will facilitate the study of advanced photocatalyst design, and the building of stable, active, non-toxic, viable photocatalysts for green fuel generation from solar energy. The educational goals of this CAREER award is in part to integrate the research into outreach programs to Tennessee middle and high school students through the Vanderbilt Summer Academy and the Vanderbilt Students Volunteer for Science, thereby encouraging economically disadvantaged and underrepresented groups into careers in the physical and material sciences.

范德比尔特大学的 Janet E Macdonald 得到了化学系高分子、超分子和纳米化学项目以及可持续化学、工程和材料 (SusChEM) 计划的支持，致力于研究基于铜族纳米粒子的新型光催化剂的制备硫化物。该研究旨在开发硫化铜新相和尚未开发的相的形状和尺寸控制合成方法，并对其晶体结构和光致发光现象有一个基本的了解。 硫化铜混合金属-半导体纳米颗粒的合成也将被开发和研究，用于其光致电荷分离和光催化水分解产生氢气的应用。这些合成和新的纳米颗粒将促进先进光催化剂设计和构建的研究稳定、活性、无毒、可行的光催化剂，用于太阳能生产绿色燃料。该职业奖的教育目标部分是通过范德比尔特暑期学院和范德比尔特学生科学志愿者将研究纳入田纳西州中学生和高中生的推广计划中，从而鼓励经济上处于不利地位和代表性不足的群体从事体育和体育领域的职业。材料科学。