SBIR Phase I: Eco-friendly Production of Carbon Nanosheets for Ultra High Energy Storage Electrode Application

SBIR第一阶段：用于超高储能电极应用的碳纳米片的环保生产

• 批准号: 1940375
• 负责人: MICHAEL OPOKU
• 金额: $ 22.41万
• 依托单位: SURGEPOWER MATERIALS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-02-01 至 2020-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1940375&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Eco; friendly; Production

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project is applying a plant-based graphene product as a battery material to increase energy storage density, decrease charging times and extend battery life. The benefit to society is that the plant-based material may facilitate adoption of electric vehicles and reduce the grid storage cost of renewable energy, potentially providing greater energy security. The proposed material's cost-efficient nature will facilitate broader adoption of graphene in other advanced technology areas such as composites, conductive inks, printable electronics, catalysis, sensors, and biomedical devices, thereby pushing nanotechnology frontiers.This SBIR Phase I project proposes to develop a green sustainable process using an abundant plant material as input and producing extremely high purity graphene with superior physical attributes. This feasibility research will demonstrate that high-quality SP2Hybrid graphene can be manufactured from a plant-based raw material at lower costs than current methods of graphene production and is environmentally sustainable. Current production of graphene, such as liquid/chemical exfoliation, uses starting materials derived from non-renewable resources. The proposed process utilizes an abundant cassava crop as feedstock sold as commodity in the US and overseas. Preliminary samples of SP2Hybrid graphene properties have been validated by third parties to have 4X the surface area (2956 m2/g) and up to 5X (5.0 cm3/g) the pore volume of current solutions, offering better performance as an electrode material in batteries and supercapacitors.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是将基于植物的石墨烯产品作为电池材料，以提高储能密度，减少充电时间并延长电池寿命。对社会的好处是，基于植物的材料可以促进采用电动汽车并降低可再生能源的电网存储成本，从而提供更大的能源安全。拟议的材料的成本效益性质将有助于在其他先进技术领域（例如复合材料，可打印的电子设备，催化，传感器和生物医学设备）中更广泛采用石墨烯，从而推动SBIR I期项目提高较高的耐用工厂的SBIR I期项目，以较高的材料和生产的材料来推动SBIR I期项目，以实现较高的材料。这项可行性研究将表明，高质量的SP2HYBRID石墨烯可以用基于植物的原料制造，其成本低于当前的石墨烯生产方法，并且在环境上是可持续的。当前的石墨烯生产（例如液体/化学去角质）使用了源自不可再生资源的起始材料。拟议的过程利用大量的木薯作物作为美国和海外商品出售的原料。 第三方已经验证了SP2HYBRID石墨烯特性的初步样品，其表面积（2956 m2/g）的表面积（2956 m2/g）和最多5倍（5.0 cm3/g）当前解决方案的孔隙体积量，可以通过评估NSF的构建宣言，以表现出更好的智力，以表现出更好的电池材料。和更广泛的影响审查标准。