Projects
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| Reference Number | EP/D038391/1 | |
| Title | HIGH THROUGHPUT INORGANIC NANOMATERIALS DISCOVERY | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Renewable Energy Sources(Solar Energy) 100%; | |
| Research Types | Basic and strategic applied research 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Metallurgy and Materials) 100% | |
| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 100% | |
| Principal Investigator |
Professor X Wang No email address given Inst of Particle Science & Engineering University of Leeds |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | EPSRC | |
| Start Date | 27 November 2006 | |
| End Date | 26 May 2010 | |
| Duration | 42 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £141,616 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Manufacturing | |
| Region | Yorkshire & Humberside | |
| Programme | Materials, Mechanical and Medical Eng, Physical Sciences, Process Environment and Sustainability | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Professor X Wang , Inst of Particle Science & Engineering, University of Leeds (100.000%) |
| Industrial Collaborator | Project Contact , Hydrogen Solar Ltd (0.000%) Project Contact , Malvern Instruments Ltd (0.000%) Project Contact , SRI International, USA (0.000%) Project Contact , Tescom Corporation UK (0.000%) Project Contact , Coates Lorilleux Ltd (0.000%) Project Contact , Faraday: INSIGHT (Chemical Throughput) (0.000%) Project Contact , AMR Ltd (0.000%) Project Contact , Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA (0.000%) |
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| Objectives | ||
| Abstract | The current advancement of technology very much depends upon the discovery of new materials. It has been known for some time that combinations of elements not largely involving carbon (called inorganic materials) can have important uses in areas from electronics, computing, UV protection in products, to harnessing energy from the sun. In particular, when inorganic particles are very small, typically made of a few hundred atoms (called nanomaterials), they become can have unusual and excitingproperties. The discovery of such "nanomaterials" very much is hampered by our inability to make these materials fast enough and then to be able to test them adequately for their properties.The proposed research seeks to develop a new way of making and discovering inorganic "nanomaterials" using a very fast approach. This project is seeking to discovery better nanomaterials, which can absorb the suns rays (as an free energy source), and use this energy to splitwater into its constituents, hydrogen and oxygen (in a process known as photocatalysis). The hydrogen can then be used for powering cars or devices of the future. Such a process is important to sustain the energy requirements of mankind on this earth when our fossil fuels (e.g. oil) are exhausted | |
| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | (none) |
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| Added to Database | 13/03/07 | |
