SBIR Phase II: Scalable Electrochemical Production Of Carbon Nanotubes From Carbon Dioxide

SBIR 第二阶段：从二氧化碳中大规模电化学生产碳纳米管

• 批准号: 2132768
• 负责人: Anna Douglas
• 金额: $ 99.19万
• 依托单位: SkyNano LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-15 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2132768&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Scalable; Electrochemical; SBIR; Phase; II; Scalable; Electrochemical

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is the development of a scalable carbon nanotube (CNT) production process that consumes atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) as part of the production process. This project will support domestic supply chains for CNT materials at potentially disruptively low cost-levels. There is market need for low cost CNTs to companies where replacement of existing additives with CNTs can lead to improved products at equivalent or lower cost. Two examples of this are in battery additives or tire additives, where CNTs can replace lower quality carbon black materials to break traditional materials trade-offs such as energy vs power density (batteries) or fuel efficiency vs lifetime (tires).This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project develops a novel, sustainable electrochemical Carbon Nanotube (CNT) production technology, which uses CO2 and electricity to produce high quality CNT products that meet and exceed the quality metrics of today's market products, while feasibly offering a disruptively lower priced CNT product. This project leverages experience in electrochemistry and carbon nanomaterials synthesis to develop rapidly scalable electrode architectures and preparation processes to fabricate such electrode architectures that enable the production of CNTs at cost structures that are truly disruptive in the marketplace and enable rapid commercialization. To further complement these technical efforts, this project optimizes post-growth CNT processing to better align products for customer integration and utilization. Finally, this work will demonstrate the commercial viability of the approach and a scaling pathway for the materials platform.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）II期项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是开发可扩展的碳纳米管（CNT）生产过程，该过程将消耗大气二氧化碳（CO2）作为生产过程的一部分。该项目将在可能破坏性低的成本级别上支持CNT材料的国内供应链。市场需要低成本的CNT对公司的替代现有添加剂可以以同等或更低的成本导致产品改进的产品。 Two examples of this are in battery additives or tire additives, where CNTs can replace lower quality carbon black materials to break traditional materials trade-offs such as energy vs power density (batteries) or fuel efficiency vs lifetime (tires).This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project develops a novel, sustainable electrochemical Carbon Nanotube (CNT) production technology, which uses CO2 and electricity to produce high quality CNT products达到并超过了当今市场产品的质量指标，同时提供了价格较低的CNT产品。 该项目利用电化学和碳纳米材料合成的经验来开发快速可扩展的电极体系结构和制备过程，以制造这种电极体系结构，从而使CNT能够以成本结构的形式生产，这些结构在市场上真正破坏了市场，并可以快速商业化。 为了进一步补充这些技术努力，该项目优化了生长后的CNT处理，以更好地调整产品集成和利用的产品。 最后，这项工作将证明该方法的商业生存能力和材料平台的缩放途径。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准通过评估来支持的。