HIGH THROUGHPUT INORGANIC NANOMATERIALS DISCOVERY
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leeds
Department Name: Inst of Particle Science & Engineering
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 exciting properties. 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 split water 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.
Organisations
- University of Leeds (Lead Research Organisation)
- SRI International (inc) (Collaboration)
- Thermo Electron Corporation (Collaboration)
- Coates Lorilleux (Collaboration)
- Faraday Centre for Retail Excellence (Collaboration)
- Tescom Corporation UK (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Malvern Instruments (Collaboration)
- Hydrogen Solar (Collaboration)
- AMR Constructions (Collaboration)
- Thermo Fisher (To be removed 1) (Project Partner)
- Coates Lorilleux Ltd (Project Partner)
- AMR Ltd (Project Partner)
- Hydrogen Solar (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Faraday: INSIGHT (Chemical throughput) (Project Partner)
- SRI International (Project Partner)
- Spectris (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Xue Wang (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Weng X
(2009)
Synthesis and characterization of doped nano-sized ceria-zirconia solid solutions
in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
Wang X
(2009)
Robust QSAR model development in high-throughput catalyst discovery based on genetic parameter optimisation
in Chemical Engineering Research and Design
Ma C
(2009)
Inductive data mining based on genetic programming: Automatic generation of decision trees from data for process historical data analysis
in Computers & Chemical Engineering
Yang Y
(2011)
Data flow modeling, data mining and QSAR in high-throughput discovery of functional nanomaterials
in Computers & Chemical Engineering
Lin T
(2010)
Rapid automated materials synthesis instrument: exploring the composition and heat-treatment of nanoprecursors toward low temperature red phosphors.
in Journal of combinatorial chemistry
| Description | New methods for high throughput discovery of nanomaterias were developed |
| Exploitation Route | New method for HT discovery of nanomaterials, fenerate new research |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Agriculture, Food and Drink,Chemicals,Energy,Environment,Healthcare,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology |
| Description | AMR Ltd |
| Organisation | AMR Constructions |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Private |
| Start Year | 2006 |
| Description | Coates Lorilleux Ltd |
| Organisation | Coates Lorilleux |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| Start Year | 2006 |
| Description | Faraday: INSIGHT (Chemical throughput) |
| Organisation | Faraday Centre for Retail Excellence |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| Start Year | 2006 |
| Description | Hydrogen Solar Ltd |
| Organisation | Hydrogen Solar |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| Start Year | 2006 |
| Description | Malvern Instruments Ltd |
| Organisation | Malvern Instruments |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| Start Year | 2006 |
| Description | SRI International (inc) |
| Organisation | SRI International (inc) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Start Year | 2006 |
| Description | Tescom Corporation UK |
| Organisation | Tescom Corporation UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| Start Year | 2006 |
| Description | Thermo Electron Corporation |
| Organisation | Thermo Electron Corporation |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| Start Year | 2006 |