Graphene three-dimensional networks
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Materials
Abstract
Graphene and its derivatives exhibit unprecedented combinations of properties: tuneable electrical and optical response, high intrinsic mechanical response, chemical versatility, tuneable permeability, extremely high surface area >3000m2/g... The incorporation of graphene in practical devices will open new technological opportunities in a wide number of technologies such as catalysis, supercapacitors, membranes and multifunctional polymer and ceramic composites. In order to combine optimum functional and mechanical properties, these devices will often have complex structures with characteristic features at multiple lengths scales from the nano to the macro level. For example, foams with open micro-scale porosity to allow gas access and nano-scale pores to enhance surface area, membranes that will combine ceramic supports with graphene layers of controlled permeability or multilayer structures with layer thickness ranging from micro to nanolevels. The scientific and engineering challenge is the development of manufacturing approaches to build these devices in a reliable and cost-effective manner.
Wet-processing techniques based on the use of liquid particulate suspensions, or solutions have made very significant advances in the last years. They are reliable, robust, and efficient. Now they are using to build materials with increasing degrees of precision, down to nano-levels and are having an increasing impact in a wide range of technologies. With the advent of solution processable graphene, we strongly believe that there is an often overlooked opportunity to develop wet processing technologies to build graphene-based devices. However, the development of these techniques will depend on two key issues: establishing a reliable path for the large scale synthesis of powders with controlled size and chemistry and understanding the basic physicochemical parameters that determine the response of graphene suspensions.
This project puts together a multidiscilplinary team with the objective to develop new wet-processing manufacturing approaches to build graphene-based 3D structures for selected technological applications. The project will cover basic scientific and engineering aspects such as powder synthesis and the basic analysis of the physicochemical parameters that control the response of colloidal suspensions of two dimensional materials. We plan to use a coordinated approach that by simultaneously developing a suite of processing approaches (from emulsification, 3D printing, layer-by-layer deposition, aerogels...) will be able to define and address the many common scientific and engineering issues and generate a synergistic effect that will push technological development. An essential part of our approach is the emphasis on specific technological applications (supercapacitors, membranes, electrochemical devices...). This emphasis will serve to focus the development of our manufacturing approaches towards specific goals, providing clear directions for structural manipulation and enhancing tremendously the technological impact of this project. By systematically analyzing the performance of our structures in these applications we will also define the key principles that should guide the design of graphene-based devices in order to optimize their functional and mechanical response.
This project will break new ground and uncover new scientific principles and technologies that will have a lasting impact not only on the implementation of graphene but also for a whole new family of emergent two dimensional materials whose unique properties are poised to change the way we design and build devices for a wide range of fields in the upcoming years.
Wet-processing techniques based on the use of liquid particulate suspensions, or solutions have made very significant advances in the last years. They are reliable, robust, and efficient. Now they are using to build materials with increasing degrees of precision, down to nano-levels and are having an increasing impact in a wide range of technologies. With the advent of solution processable graphene, we strongly believe that there is an often overlooked opportunity to develop wet processing technologies to build graphene-based devices. However, the development of these techniques will depend on two key issues: establishing a reliable path for the large scale synthesis of powders with controlled size and chemistry and understanding the basic physicochemical parameters that determine the response of graphene suspensions.
This project puts together a multidiscilplinary team with the objective to develop new wet-processing manufacturing approaches to build graphene-based 3D structures for selected technological applications. The project will cover basic scientific and engineering aspects such as powder synthesis and the basic analysis of the physicochemical parameters that control the response of colloidal suspensions of two dimensional materials. We plan to use a coordinated approach that by simultaneously developing a suite of processing approaches (from emulsification, 3D printing, layer-by-layer deposition, aerogels...) will be able to define and address the many common scientific and engineering issues and generate a synergistic effect that will push technological development. An essential part of our approach is the emphasis on specific technological applications (supercapacitors, membranes, electrochemical devices...). This emphasis will serve to focus the development of our manufacturing approaches towards specific goals, providing clear directions for structural manipulation and enhancing tremendously the technological impact of this project. By systematically analyzing the performance of our structures in these applications we will also define the key principles that should guide the design of graphene-based devices in order to optimize their functional and mechanical response.
This project will break new ground and uncover new scientific principles and technologies that will have a lasting impact not only on the implementation of graphene but also for a whole new family of emergent two dimensional materials whose unique properties are poised to change the way we design and build devices for a wide range of fields in the upcoming years.
Planned Impact
The need for new, clean and economic sources of energy is paramount. World energy consumption is projected to increase by 44% from 2006 to 2030. In Europe, electricity generation is expected to increase by an average of 1.3 % per year up to about 4.6 trillion kilowatt-hours by 2030. The latest World Energy Outlook summary by the International Energy Agency predicts OECD countries will spend on average around 2% of their GDP in gas and oil imports by 2030 with Europe seeing a net import increase. An outstanding challenge is the development of structures able to support novel, more efficient systems for the production and storage of energy. The unique properties of graphene can open new opportunities in the design of new devices that will have a significant impact in the strategic field of energy such as more efficient membranes for liquid and gas separation, supercapacitors, catalysis, light-weight composites...
This project also addresses the need to developing new manufacturing capabilities in the UK. The recent economic crisis has highlighted the important role of the manufacturing industry in creating a sustainable economy and promoting job creation. This project will contribute to the formation of a manufacturing base on graphene technologies and area where there is an opportunity for UK to take a world-leading role. It is designed to generate new fabrication technologies with emphasis on industrial translation and whose impact goes beyond the field of graphene. These technologies will provide new commercial opportunities. The work ill also contribute to the formation of new highly skilled professionals will take a leading role in academy and industry.
Finally the dissemination of our work and the participation of the members of the team in outreach activities will encourage more high quality students to join the fields of materials science and engineering. We will also make an effort to hire female PDRAS and increase the number of female scientists.
This project also addresses the need to developing new manufacturing capabilities in the UK. The recent economic crisis has highlighted the important role of the manufacturing industry in creating a sustainable economy and promoting job creation. This project will contribute to the formation of a manufacturing base on graphene technologies and area where there is an opportunity for UK to take a world-leading role. It is designed to generate new fabrication technologies with emphasis on industrial translation and whose impact goes beyond the field of graphene. These technologies will provide new commercial opportunities. The work ill also contribute to the formation of new highly skilled professionals will take a leading role in academy and industry.
Finally the dissemination of our work and the participation of the members of the team in outreach activities will encourage more high quality students to join the fields of materials science and engineering. We will also make an effort to hire female PDRAS and increase the number of female scientists.
Organisations
- Imperial College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- Beihang University (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Thomas Swan and Co Ltd (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Collaboration)
- National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (Collaboration)
- Cardiff University (Collaboration)
- University of Malaga (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Collaboration)
- University of Santiago de Compostela (Collaboration)
- LiqTech (Denmark) (Project Partner)
- Thomas Swan (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Sabic Europe (Project Partner)
- Morgan Advanced Materials (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- DSM (Netherlands) (Project Partner)
- Repsol-Sinopec (Project Partner)
- Kennametal (United States) (Project Partner)
- Graphenea (Spain) (Project Partner)
Publications
Aba N
(2015)
Graphene oxide membranes on ceramic hollow fibers - Microstructural stability and nanofiltration performance
in Journal of Membrane Science
Au H
(2018)
Brominated graphene as a versatile precursor for multifunctional grafting.
in Chemical science
Au H
(2020)
Thermal Decomposition of Ternary Sodium Graphite Intercalation Compounds.
in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Barg S
(2014)
Mesoscale assembly of chemically modified graphene into complex cellular networks.
in Nature communications
Chabi S
(2016)
Ultralight, Strong, Three-Dimensional SiC Structures.
in ACS nano
Chavez-Valdez A
(2013)
Applications of graphene electrophoretic deposition. A review.
in The journal of physical chemistry. B
Chong J
(2016)
Graphene oxide membranes in fluid separations
in Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering
Chong J
(2019)
Fabrication of Graphene-Covered Micro-Tubes for Process Intensification
in Advanced Engineering Materials
Chong JY
(2015)
UV-Enhanced Sacrificial Layer Stabilised Graphene Oxide Hollow Fibre Membranes for Nanofiltration.
in Scientific reports
Clancy AJ
(2018)
Charged Carbon Nanomaterials: Redox Chemistries of Fullerenes, Carbon Nanotubes, and Graphenes.
in Chemical reviews
Corker A
(2019)
3D printing with 2D colloids: designing rheology protocols to predict 'printability' of soft-materials.
in Soft matter
D'Elia E
(2015)
Self-healing graphene-based composites with sensing capabilities.
in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
De Marco M
(2016)
Cross-linked single-walled carbon nanotube aerogel electrodes via reductive coupling chemistry
in Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Diba M
(2016)
Electrophoretic deposition of graphene-related materials: A review of the fundamentals
in Progress in Materials Science
Eslava S
(2016)
Using graphene oxide as a sacrificial support of polyoxotitanium clusters to replicate its two-dimensionality on pure titania photocatalysts
in Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Feilden E
(2017)
3D Printing Bioinspired Ceramic Composites.
in Scientific reports
Gao Y
(2017)
Multilayer coextrusion of graphene polymer nanocomposites with enhanced structural organization and properties
in Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Gao Y
(2017)
Influence of filler size on the properties of poly(lactic acid) (PLA)/graphene nanoplatelet (GNP) nanocomposites
in European Polymer Journal
García-Tuñon E
(2015)
Printing in three dimensions with graphene.
in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
García-Tuñón E
(2017)
Complex ceramic architectures by directed assembly of 'responsive' particles
in Journal of the European Ceramic Society
García-Tuñón E
(2017)
Graphene Oxide: An All-in-One Processing Additive for 3D Printing.
in ACS applied materials & interfaces
Goyos-Ball L
(2017)
Mechanical and biological evaluation of 3D printed 10CeTZP-Al 2 O 3 structures
in Journal of the European Ceramic Society
Grotta Chiara
(2017)
3D Printing of 2D Atomically Thin Materials
in arXiv e-prints
Hodge SA
(2017)
Chemical routes to discharging graphenides.
in Nanoscale
Iruretagoyena D
(2015)
Influence of Alkali Metals (Na, K, and Cs) on CO 2 Adsorption by Layered Double Oxides Supported on Graphene Oxide
in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Kondarage A
(2021)
In situ 4D tomography image analysis framework to follow sintering within 3D-printed glass scaffolds
in Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Leung C
(2021)
Enhanced near-infrared absorption for laser powder bed fusion using reduced graphene oxide
in Applied Materials Today
Li J
(2020)
Formation of Polarized, Functional Artificial Cells from Compartmentalized Droplet Networks and Nanomaterials, Using One-Step, Dual-Material 3D-Printed Microfluidics.
in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Menzel R
(2014)
Joule Heating Characteristics of Emulsion-Templated Graphene Aerogels
in Advanced Functional Materials
Morishita T
(2014)
Optimised exfoliation conditions enhance isolation and solubility of grafted graphenes from graphite intercalation compounds
in Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Ni N
(2015)
Understanding Mechanical Response of Elastomeric Graphene Networks.
in Scientific reports
Nommeots-Nomm A
(2019)
Four-dimensional imaging and quantification of viscous flow sintering within a 3D printed bioactive glass scaffold using synchrotron X-ray tomography
in Materials Today Advances
Panagiotopoulos A
(2023)
3D printed inks of two-dimensional semimetallic MoS 2 /TiS 2 nanosheets for conductive-additive-free symmetric supercapacitors
in Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Pesci F
(2017)
MoS 2 /WS 2 Heterojunction for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation
in ACS Catalysis
Picot OT
(2017)
Using graphene networks to build bioinspired self-monitoring ceramics.
in Nature communications
Pierin G
(2016)
Direct Ink Writing of micrometric SiOC ceramic structures using a preceramic polymer
in Journal of the European Ceramic Society
Reale F
(2017)
High-Mobility and High-Optical Quality Atomically Thin WS 2.
in Scientific reports
Reale F
(2016)
From bulk crystals to atomically thin layers of group VI-transition metal dichalcogenides vapour phase synthesis
in Applied Materials Today
Rocha VG
(2017)
Multimaterial 3D Printing of Graphene-Based Electrodes for Electrochemical Energy Storage Using Thermoresponsive Inks.
in ACS applied materials & interfaces
Rubio N
(2017)
Grafting from versus Grafting to Approaches for the Functionalization of Graphene Nanoplatelets with Poly(methyl methacrylate)
in Macromolecules
Santagiuliana G
(2018)
Breaking the Nanoparticle Loading-Dispersion Dichotomy in Polymer Nanocomposites with the Art of Croissant-Making.
in ACS nano
Sherrell P
(2016)
Mesoscale design of multifunctional 3D graphene networks
in Materials Today
Sherrell P
(2019)
Large-Area CVD MoS 2 /WS 2 Heterojunctions as a Photoelectrocatalyst for Salt-Water Oxidation
in ACS Applied Energy Materials
Sherrell PC
(2018)
Thickness-Dependent Characterization of Chemically Exfoliated TiS2 Nanosheets.
in ACS omega
Sokolikova M
(2019)
Direct solution-phase synthesis of 1T' WSe2 nanosheets
in Nature Communications
Sokolikova M
(2017)
Room-temperature growth of colloidal Bi 2 Te 3 nanosheets
in Chemical Communications
Song W
(2017)
Tuning the Double Layer of Graphene Oxide through Phosphorus Doping for Enhanced Supercapacitance
in ACS Energy Letters
Woodward R
(2017)
Hypercrosslinked polyHIPEs as precursors to designable, hierarchically porous carbon foams
in Polymer
Title | Tadpole2 |
Description | Large Scanning Electron Image, won image price in Dpt of Materials competition |
Type Of Art | Image |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Impact | A large version of the image is part of the exhibition decorating the Dpt of Materials Entrance. It can be seen by visitors and generating interest in graphene research. |
Description | Synthesis of graphene-based materials and other 2D structures We have developed and installed a computer-controlled reactor for the large-scale production of chemically modified graphene. This system can be used to investigate systematically the factors that control the chemistry and morphology of graphene oxide and reduced graphene as a way to tailor them for diverse applications. Specific examples of applications that have been developed in this project include novel polymer and ceramic-based composites, graphene inks for 3D printing, membranes for liquid filtration or porous three-dimensional networks for energy storage or oil cleanup. One of the key achievements has been the formulation of a protocol for the controlled synthesis of graphene oxide flakes with large lateral size (tens of microns) that are optimized for key technologies such as structural composites or protective coatings. There are no commercial materials currently available with these characteristics and we are providing chemically modified graphene suspensions to several research groups across UK and Europe. Chemically modified graphene opens opportunities for the manipulation of chemistry as a way to tailor it to specific uses. With our synthesis process we have developed diverse approaches to tailor graphene chemistry. In particular we have developed methods to make graphene platelets highly dispersible in acetone as a way to enhance the performance of graphene-based polymers. These include a chemical reduction method to exfoliate graphene nanoplatelets that can be subsequently grafted with polymers or a reduction method to brominate few-layer graphene sheets. The brominated sheets are a convenient, stable, liquid-phase precursor, suitable for the synthesis of a variety of directly functionalised graphenes. Brominated graphene is also active for nucleophilic substitution reactions, as illustrated by the preparation of methoxypolyethylene glycol (mPEG)- and OH-substituted derivatives. Chemical modification does not only enhance processability but also performance, for example we have participated in the development of an approach to increase the charge storage of the graphene double layer based on the addition of phosphorous. This approach can open new opportunities to enhance the performance of graphene-based energy storage devices. The synthesis technologies have been extended to other 2D materials beyond graphene. These include: i) oxidation-resistant nanosheets of TiS2 down to monolayer thicknesses with lateral sizes up to 4 µm. These nanosheetes can be used in the fabrication of highly concentrated (>1 mg/mL) inks stable for over 12 months. This study will accelerate the applications of TiS2 nanosheets, from large area electronics to energy storage and energy conversion devices; ii) mono- and bi-layer WS2 with record high room temperature charge carrier mobility up to 52 cm2/Vs and ultra-sharp photoluminescence line width of just 36 meV over submillimeter areas; iii) synthesis of Bi2Te3 nanosheets with controlled thickness, morphology and crystallinity at moderalety low temperatures opening opportunities for large-scale production; and iv) atomically thin layers of MoS2 and WS2 that can oxidize water to O2 under incident light showing that charge carrier lifetime is tailorable in atomically thin crystals by designing heterojunctions with different compositions and architectures. These nanosheets could be used in photocatalytic systems for water oxidation, which can be coupled with different reduction processes for solar-fuel production. Porous graphene three-dimensional networks Graphene foams and aerogels could have multiple applications in technologies as diverse as energy storage, oil clean-up or shock adsorption. However, to develop these technologies it is necessary to create processing routes for the fabrication of foams with architectures rationally designed to provide the desired performance. We have developed a versatile technique to build ultralight (density =1 mg cm-3) graphene cellular networks based on the use of soft templates and the controlled segregation of chemically modified graphene to liquid interfaces combined with ice templating. These novel structures can be tuned for excellent conductivity, large accessible porosity, high thermal conductivity, versatile mechanical response (elastic-brittle to elastomeric, reversible deformation, high energy absorption) and organic absorption capabilities (above 600 g per gram of material). We have performed a systematic study of the mechanical response of the networks that has served to identify graphene flake lateral size as the key parameter that determines mechanical response. We have also shown that these networks can be heated by direct resistive heating. Efficient heating can be achieved at comparatively low voltages. These characteristics should enable quick and uniform temperature control of a permeating gas within the porous nanocarbon network or of functional particles supported on the graphitic framework. The combination of these excellent Joule heating characteristics with other, well-established benefits (e.g., light weight, high-surface area, chemical inertness etc.) makes these graphene networks highly interesting candidates for energy-efficient and homogeneous flow-through heating systems in catalysis and solid adsorbent regeneration. In collaboration with the University of Exeter we have also shown how the graphene foams can be used as a substrate for the fabrication of ultralight ceramic (SiC) structures through the reaction with a silicon vapour source. Carbon foams have also been produced from macroporous poly(divinylbenzene) (poly(DVB) precursors. The resulting carbon foams 'carboHIPEs', exhibit surface areas of up to 505 m2/g and excellent electrical conductivities of 81 S/m. The use of a pourable, aqueous emulsion-template enables simple moulding, minimises waste and avoids the strong acid treatments used to remove many conventional solid-templates. The retention of the macroporous structure is coupled with the introduction of micropores during carbonization, producing hierarchically porous carboHIPEs, suitable for a wide range of applications as sorbents and electrodes. Graphene-based composites The integration of graphene in ceramic and polymers has attracted much attention. Its unique properties open opportunities to create new materials exhibiting unique structural and functional performance including light weight composites with high thermal or electrical conductivity or films able to provide efficient protection against water or chemical attack. To achieve this goal, graphene distribution in the materials should not be random but follow a rational design. This has proven difficult, in particular when relatively large graphene contents are required. We have produced highly organized layered graphene/ceramic (SiOC) composites with good structural control at the nanometer and micrometer length scales. In our approach we combine the highly organized graphene 3D structures obtained through ice-templating with a pre-ceramic polymer. Once the shaping step is done the polymer can be converted to a ceramic through a heat treatment (above 800 C). We successfully showed that infusion and heat treatment led to the formation of a highly organized, layered silicon oxycarbide/graphene composite that is strong and though and retains high electrical conductivity. The microscopic network of thin (20-30 nm) conductive interfaces can direct crack propagation and significantly enhance toughness. It can also be used to sense the formation of microscopic defects. This opens the possibility of fabricating structures able to self-monitor for damage. Following a similar approach we have developed electrically conductive composites able to self-repair of change shape as well as sense bending and flexion. These composites are fabricated through the infiltration of the graphene foams with a self-healing or self-shaping polymer. Healing can be enhanced and shaping can be triggered using Joule heating of the network with relatively low voltages (<10 V for samples with sizes of the order of centimeters). In the field of polymer composites we have developed a pressing and folding method to fabricate materials with very high graphene contents (up to 74 vol %) that can not be achieved by other methods and performed a systematic assessment of the effect of graphene platelet size on the properties and processing of graphene-polylactide (PLA) composites. Following this assessment, a co-extrusion technique has been developed to produce poly(lactic acid)/graphene multilayer films. These films exhibited a multilayer structure made of alternating layers of neat PLA and PLA containing graphite nanoplatelets. As a result, a significant reinforcement and improved water vapour barrier properties are achieved. This industrial scalable processes open up possibilities for lightweight and strong packaging materials for food and industrial applications and nanocomposites with enhanced functionalities including sensing, heat management, and energy storage Additive manufacturing/3D printing One of the challenges in the fabrication of 3D structures is the control of their architecture at multiple length scales from the macro to the nano-levels. In this respect additive manufacturing (3D printing) technologies open new opportunities. We have focused on the design of different approaches for the formulation of graphene-based inks for 3D printing. We have demonstrated how graphene functionalization with responsive molecules (either pH or thermally responsive) can be used to formulate graphene inks with the viscoelastic response needed to build practical three-dimensional structures with precision and reliability using robotic assisted deposition. As a demonstration we have been able to print copper/graphene structures and test their performance as supercapacitor electrodes. This performance is comparable to that of electrodes build using other technologies. The process opens new opportunities to create new ad-hoc devices tailored for specific applications. The rheology of the inks could potentially be adjusted for other processing technologies such as extrusion, gel or tape casting. By effectively extending the materials palette of additive manufacturing technologies to include novel 2D compounds it will be possible to create new technological opportunities in the fabrication of devices and nanocomposites on demand for a wide range of applications in energy, environment, health or transportation. In the field of 3D printing we have also demonstrated that the flake-like shape of graphene oxide (GO), with different functionalities on their edges and faces, results in the formation of GO networks in water. As a result, graphene oxide is a universal additive that can be used to manipulate the viscoelastic response or particle suspensions. It enables the formulation of water-based inks and pastes containing materials with different chemistries (metals, polymers and ceramics), particle morphologies (from spherical to platelets and fibers) and sizes (from nano to tens of microns). These suspensions can be tailored for different processing technologies. Graphene oxide is an all-in-one additive, acting as a surfactant, viscosifier, printing aid and binder simultaneously; leading to formulations containing only three components, graphene oxide, water and the material of interest. In addition, graphene oxide could also potentially add functionality to the final materials, by designing post-processing steps to facilitate in-situ reduction, for example spark plasma sintering. This opens up multiple possibilities for the processing of complex structures using a range of techniques from additive manufacturing, to casting, injection or roll-to-roll processes. Recent work has shown that the reduced Graphene Oxide synthesized in the reactor developed in this project can be used as a universal additive to enhance laser adsorption of different powder feedstocks (ceramics, metals and polymers). This now opens the possibility of using rGO as an additive to widen the palette of materials that can be fabricated using selective laser sintering or melting to include, for example, ceramics and glasses. In this way it may be possible to overcome some of the difficulties found in the additive manufacturing of these materials such as the limitations in part size or the long and expensive fabrication. Membranes and multimaterial structures The team has demonstrated the fabrication of Graphene oxide (GO) membranes on ceramic hollow fiber substrates with great potential in liquid filtration. The GO hollow fiber membranes show higher permeation fluxes of acetone and methanol than most commercial membranes, and reject molecules larger than 300 Da, showing a great potential in the use of value-added organic solvent nanofiltration processes. These membranes have also demonstrated long-term (1200 hours) gas-tight stability. Post-treatments (e.g. by UV) can induce the formation of microstructural defects and greatly enhance the permeability without losing the molecular sieving properties. We have also performed a systematic analysis of CO2 adsorption capacities, isotherms, and thermal stability of sodium, potassium, and cesium impregnated layered double oxides (LDOs) supported on graphene oxide (GO). The incorporation of GO in LDO promotes enhanced thermal stability that is not compromised by the alkali species. Sorption enhancement can improve the efficiency of hydrogen production by the water gas shift reaction (WGS), which is an important stage in the steam reforming of methane or the gasification of coal or biomass. |
Exploitation Route | Our research delivered new information required to optimise the large-scale synthesis of graphene that can be used by the companies working on synthesis of nanomaterials. In addition we have developed different methods to produce graphene 3D structures with controlled architectures and demonstrated their use in diverse technologies. This work will enable the design and fabrication of graphene and graphene-based materials specifically designed or different applications. The materials will impact technologies such as electrodes, supercapacitors, membranes, protective coatings or light-weight composites, and enable novel, more efficient systems for transportation, production and storage of energy. As a result of the program we developed a large scale reactor for the production of graphene oxide with controlled chemistry and flake size. This reactor can fabricate up to 10 l of graphene suspension in one batch. It has served as a blueprint for systems installed by some of our industrial partners. The reactor is providing materials for several groups in UK, for example in the universities of Bath, Cardiff or Liverpool so they can develop their own research programs in a wide range of areas from 3D printing to energy generation. It also provides materials for industrial collaboration projects (e.g. with Petronas and AcerlorMittal on the development of graphene and graphene-containing coatings). |
Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Chemicals Electronics Energy Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology |
Description | One of the main direct applications arising from our findings is the large-scale availability of high-quality chemically modified graphene for the industrial and research communities (including Arcelor Mittal or the Universities of Cardiff and Liverpool between others). The material attracted attention from several companies (DSM, BASF) that are interested in evaluating its integration in their product line. One of the project industrial partners (Graphenea) has installed a large-scale graphene oxide reactor based on the one developed in this grant. As a side effect of the partnership Graphenea has sponsored diverse activities in the Dpt of Materials at Imperial College (e.g. sponsoring prizes for young researchers). Petronas is investing additional funds on the development of novel graphene/polymer composites for oil pipelines as well as epoxy/graphene protective coatings based on our technologies and materials. Acerlor Mittal also has invested in the development of graphene coatings on high-strength steel to enhance the process of galvanization and protect against liquid metal embrittlement. These coatings are based on the materials developed in the graphene 3D network grant. ONRG (USA) has also funded follow up research on the development of self-healing and self-shaping materials based on the graphene and processing techniques developed in this grant. This research is being done in collaboration with CIDETEC (Spain) in order to produce new light weight materials for transportation. The graphene oxide reactor developed in the project has provided materials to support research in several academic institutions including the universities of Bath, Liverpool and Cardiff. In addition, it is being now used to develop new graphene-containing, powder feedstock formulations for laser-based additive manufacturing in the EPSRC Future Manufacturing Hub in Manufacture using Advanced Powder Processes. |
Sector | Chemicals,Energy |
Impact Types | Economic |
Description | Advanced Materials Transformation Map - World Economic Forum |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Member of Graphene Innovation Leadership Board-Knowledge Transfer Network |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Acerlor Mittal |
Amount | £153,123 (GBP) |
Organisation | Acerlor MIttal |
Sector | Private |
Country | Luxembourg |
Start | 03/2017 |
End | 03/2018 |
Description | EPSRC Standard Research Grant |
Amount | £768,786 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/M022250/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2015 |
End | 06/2019 |
Description | Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships |
Amount | € 200,000 (EUR) |
Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Belgium |
Start | 12/2013 |
End | 09/2015 |
Description | Newton Advanced Fellowship |
Amount | £110,700 (GBP) |
Organisation | The Royal Society |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2019 |
End | 03/2023 |
Description | ONRG Living Materials |
Amount | $450,000 (USD) |
Organisation | ONRG Office of Naval Research Global |
Sector | Public |
Country | United States |
Start | 01/2018 |
End | 01/2021 |
Description | Petronas |
Amount | £480,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | P50766 |
Organisation | Petronas |
Sector | Private |
Country | Malaysia |
Start | 09/2014 |
End | 09/2017 |
Title | Graphene Reactor |
Description | We have installed a medium scale reactor for the large-scale production of chemically modified graphene (CMG) with tailored physical and chemical characteristics the exfoliation of graphite . The reactor is a computer controlled system that allows a control of the process (e.g. temperature, agitation, purification...) resulting in a much more accurate tailoring of the characteristics of CMG "on demand" for specific applications. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2013 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The large scale availability of tailored chemically modified graphene has supported significant progress in different projects. For example: a) Development of graphene-polymer composites and coatings. b) Development of graphene 3D networks with different applications from Joule heating to catalyst supper or oil adsorption. c) Formulation of graphene-based inks for 3D printing. |
Title | Dataset for Using graphene oxide as a sacrificial support of polyoxotitanium clusters to replicate its two-dimensionality on pure titania photocatalysts |
Description | The nanostructure optimisation of metal oxides is of crucial importance to exploit their qualities in artificial photosynthesis, photovoltaics and heterogeneous catalysis. Therefore, it is necessary to find viable and simple fabrication methods to tune their nanostructure. Here we reveal that graphene oxide flakes, known for their nano- and two-dimensionality, can be used as a sacrificial support to replicate their nano- and two-dimensionality in photocatalytic titania. This is demonstrated in the calcination of Ti16O16(OEt)32 polyoxotitanium clusters together with graphene oxide flakes, which results in pure titania nanoflakes of <10 nm titania nanoparticles in a two-dimensional arrangement. These titania nanoflakes outperform the titania prepared from only Ti16O16(OEt)32 clusters by a factor of forty in the photocatalytic hydrogen production from aqueous methanol suspensions, as well as the benchmark P25 titania by a factor of five. These outcomes reveal the advantage of using polyoxotitanium clusters with graphene oxide and open a new avenue for the exploitation of the vast variety of polyoxometalate clusters as precursors in catalysis and photovoltaics, as well as the use of graphene oxide as a sacrificial support for nanostructure optimisation. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Description | Colaboration with the University of Liverpool |
Organisation | University of Liverpool |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have used the graphene reactor developed in this grant to produce graphene suspensions with controlled characteristics (flake size and chemistry) for Dr. Esther Garcia-Tunon in the university of Liverpool. |
Collaborator Contribution | The group at the university of Liverpool has characterised the rheology of concentrated graphene suspensions and evaluated their use in 3D printing. |
Impact | Publication 3D printing with 2D colloids: designing rheology protocols to predict 'printability'of soft-materials A Corker, HCH Ng, RJ Poole, E García-Tuñón Soft matter Presentations in meetings Capillary breakup experiments on Graphene Oxide suspensions Ng, Henry C.; Corker, Andrew; Saiz, Eduardo; Garcia-Tunon, Esther; Poole, Rob J. Annual European Rheology Conference 2019 (AERC 2019) Portoroz/Slovenia, April 8 - 11, 2019 Capillary breakup extensional rheometry (CaBER) of Graphene Oxide suspensions Henry Ng, Andrew Corker, Eduardo Saiz, Esther Garcia-Tunon, and Robert Poole UK FLUIDS CONFERENCE 2018 September 4-6, 2018 UNIVERSITY of MANCHESTER Talk in Formative formulation 18th March 2019, University of Cambridge, Maxwell Centre Talk in the Non Newtonian Club, British Society of Rheology, 'Rheology of printable soft materials for 3D manufacturing' September 2019, University of Nottingham Invited/keynote talk at Colloidal, Macromolecular and Polyelectrolyte Solutions, Gordon Research Conference, Engineered Response in Soft Matter Ventura CA, February 2020 "Formulation of Printable Soft Materials for Enhanced Performance in 3D Manufacturing" Esther Garcia-Tunon Blanca (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) Talk MRS Spring Meeting 2019, Phoenix, Arizona Assembly and Rheology of 2D Colloids and Their Role in 3D Printing Andrew Corker, University of Liverpool |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration with Beihang Univeristy |
Organisation | Beihang University |
Country | China |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Graphene development. Design of mechanical testing protocols and interpretation of tests. |
Collaborator Contribution | Fabrication and chemical characterization of graphene-based fibres. |
Impact | Ultratough Bioinspired Graphene Fiber via Sequential Toughening of Hydrogen and Ionic Bonding X Wang, J Peng, Y Zhang, M Li, E Saiz, AP Tomsia, Q Cheng ACS nano 12 (12), 12638-12645 Bioinspired Supertough Graphene Fiber through Sequential Interfacial Interactions Y Zhang, J Peng, M Li, E Saiz, SE Wolf, Q Cheng ACS nano 12 (9), 8901-8908 A Newton Advanced Fellowship has been awarded to Prof. Chen to continue work in collaboration with us at Imperial (NAF-R1-191235) |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Collaboration with CINN-Spain |
Organisation | University of Malaga |
Department | CSIC |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Development of 3D printing strategies translatable to wide range of materials (graphene-based but also ceramics and metals) |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in zirconia-based implants |
Impact | Publication: Goyos-Ball L, García-Tuñón E, Fernández-García E, Díaz R, Fernández A, Prado C, Saiz E... Torrecillas R. (2017). Mechanical and biological evaluation of 3D printed 10CeTZP-Al 2 O 3 structures. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Collaboration with Cardiff University |
Organisation | Cardiff University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have synthesised graphene for the development of graphene-polymer and graphene-ceramic composites. Our group is also working on the mechanical characterisation of the composites. |
Collaborator Contribution | The university of Cardiff is working on the processing of the composites combining different techniques: freeze casting, vacuum casting and spark plasma sintering. |
Impact | A set of composites for testing has been produced. Invited talks in IACC19 and POEM 2019 |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Collaboration with Exeter University |
Organisation | University of Exeter |
Department | College of Engineering, Mathematics & Physical Sciences |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Our expertise in mechanical properties has been used to characterise ultralight foams produced in Exeter |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in the fabrication of ultralight materials through the conversion of graphene foams |
Impact | A common publication "Ultralight, Strong, Three-Dimensional SiC Structures" The work involves chemistry, materials science, mechanical properties |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Collaboration with INSA Lyon |
Organisation | National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon |
Country | France |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Design and fabrication of graphene-ceramic composites |
Collaborator Contribution | Advanced mechanical characterization |
Impact | Publication: Picot, O.T., V.G. Rocha, C. Ferraro, N. Ni, E. D'Elia, S. Meille, J. Chevalier, T. Saunders, T. Peijs, M.J. Reece, and E. Saiz, Using graphene networks to build bioinspired self-monitoring ceramics. Nature Communications, 2017. 8: p. 14425. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Collaboration with Instituto de Ceramica de Galicia-Spain |
Organisation | University of Santiago de Compostela |
Department | Ceramic Institute of Galicia |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Expertise on graphene synthesis and rheology of graphene-based suspensions |
Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in 3D printing equipment |
Impact | Publication: Garcia-Tunon, E., S. Barg, J. Franco, R. Bell, S. Eslava, E. D'Elia, R.C. Maher, F. Guitian, and E. Saiz, Printing in Three Dimensions with Graphene. Advanced Materials, 2015. 27(10): p. 1688-+ |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | Collaboration with UCL |
Organisation | University College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Engineering of reduced graphene oxide as an additive for the selective laser sintering and selective laser melting of ceramic and metal powders. Preparation of powder mixtures and characterization of the parts fabricated using the technique. |
Collaborator Contribution | Analysis of the selective laser sintering and selective laser melting process. Additive manufacturing of parts fabricated. |
Impact | Publication: Enhanced near-infrared absorption for laser powder bed fusion using reduced graphene oxide CLA Leung, I Elizarova, M Isaacs, S Marathe, E Saiz, PD Lee Applied Materials Today 23, 101009 Involves materials science and physics |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Thomas Swan and Co Ltd |
Organisation | Thomas Swan and Co Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Long standing partnership developing technology and licensing it |
Collaborator Contribution | Development of synthesis and processing routes relevant to new company products. Advice and discussion. CASE studentships (3) |
Impact | New nanomaterials products. |
Title | MATERIAL FUNCTIONALISED WITH A POLYMER |
Description | The present invention relates to an ink composition comprising a functionalised material, a pH regulating agent, and an aqueous solvent, wherein the functionalised material comprises a carbon material or layered oxide, nitride or transition metal dichalcogenide functionalised with a pH responsive polymer. |
IP Reference | WO2015189625 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | 2015 |
Licensed | No |
Impact | This development has been disseminated in publications and different presentations in conferences (including several invited presentations) The work has been highlighted in numerous general news magazines and web pages including wired, CNET or Business Insider UK |
Description | - Suelen Barg, Felipe Macul Perez, Na Ni, Salvador Eslava, Cecilia Mattevi, Eduardo Saiz. Mesoscale Assembly of Graphene into Complex Cellular Networks. Graphene Miniworkshop, London Centre of Nanotechnology (LCN), 08/2013 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The presentation generated discussion After the presentation new collaborations were initiated with some of the scientists attending. The work is undergoing |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | 1. V. G. Rocha, E García-Tuñón, F. Markoulidis, E. Feilden, E. D'Elia, N. Ni, M. Shaffer and E. Saiz. Robotic assisted deposition of ceramics and ceramic-based materials. 6th International Congress on Ceramics. Aug 21, 2016 - Aug 25, 2016, Dresden, Germany |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk in international conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 1. V.G. Rocha, S. Eslava, E. García-Tuñon, E. D'Elia, C. Ferraro, N.Ni, S. Barg, & E. Saiz Engineering 3D architectures from chemically modified graphene. 5th Postdoc Symposium of the Materials Department, Imperial College February 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presentation to the Dpt of Materials at Imperial College. Engaged students and postdocs in research on graphene. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | 2. E. García-Tuñon, V. G. Rocha, S. Barg, R. Bell, S. Eslava, E. D'Elia, R. Maher, E. Saiz. '3D printed graphene structures' 5th Postdoc Symposium of the Materials Department, Imperial College February 2015. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Dpt of Materials at Imperial College attended and engaged with research in graphene in the Dpt. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | 2. V. G. Rocha, O. T Picot , N. Ni, C. Ferraro ,E. D'Elia, E. Saiz, M.J Reece, T. Peijs. Damage sensing capabilities of layered graphene/ceramic composites. International Workshop on Graphene/Ceramic Composites (WGCC'16) Cuenca (Spain), September 28-30, 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk in Summer School on Graphene. Focus on young researchers that got an introduction to graphene-ceramic mateirals |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 3. V.G. Rocha, E. García-Tuñon, E. D'Elia, C. Ferraro, N.Ni, S. Eslava, S. Barg, Olivier T Picot Mike J Reece, Ton Peijs & E. Saiz Engineering chemically modified graphene into 3D structures. XXIV International Materials Research Congress. (Cancun) Mexico, August 2015. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk in international conference. Dissemination of our results in academia and industry. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | 3D printing graphene |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A video published in youtube and other channels describing our progress in the 3D printing of graphene. It has reached more than 56K views and has attracted much attention from industry. We had numerous inquires about this technology and we are now discussing future projects with some of the companies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB8x1yEVn-0 |
Description | 4. V. G. Rocha, O. T Picot, N.Ni, C. Ferraro, E. Saiz, M. J Reece, T. Peijs. Ice templated graphene foams: A novel approach for producing layered ceramic/graphene composites. July CARBON 2015, Dresden, Germany |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dissemination of our results to academy and industry |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | 5. V. G. Rocha, E. Garcia-Tuñon, S. Eslava,& Eduardo Saiz. High density and binder-free low tortuosity LiFePO4/Graphene electrodes by freeze casting. 14th Conference of the European Ceramic Society. June Toledo, Spain, 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dissemination of our results to the professional community. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | 9th International Workshop on Interfaces: New Frontiers in Biomaterials |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on the progress related to the development of graphene-based composites. Mostly to a technical audience. It trigger discussions and help to set up collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Bio inspired carbon composite materials by freeze casting Invited talk, Royal Society International Scientific Seminar, Nanomaterials by Design Manufacturing carbon nanomaterials for future markets.The Royal Society at Chicheley Hall, Kavli Royal Society |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Talk generated questions and discussions After the talk we have initiated a couple of scientific collaboration with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in USA it also trigger additional visits to the University of Exeter that have resulted in a collaboration |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Building Porous Structures Department seminar, University of Exeter, UK, May 22, 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The talk sparked discussion and interest for students It served to initiate a collaboration with the University of Exeter |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | CASC industry day: Water based building blocks for robocasting, 20th January 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Talk at the industry day of the Center for Advanced Structural Ceramics. It disseminated our technology between people working in industry. Several follow up meetings have been planned to explore future collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Florida 2018 -ICACC'18- talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Florida 2018 -ICACC'18- Additive Manufacturing '2D colloids of graphene oxide for materials manufacturing' Esther García-Tuñón,*1 Ezra Feilden,2 Eleonora D'Elia,2 Eduardo Saiz2 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Graphene 3D printing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Press release from Imperial College on our work on graphene 3D printing. It was picked by numerous news channels including Associated Press, Nanowerk, CNET, Chemistry views and more.. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_12-2-2015-8-58-8 |
Description | Graphene Associated Press |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Participation in an Associated Press Video introducing graphene-based technologies. It has been used by news outlets (e.g. Business Insider UK). Disseminated graphene research to the general public |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://uk.businessinsider.com/graphene-material-graphite-future-devices-2015-4?r=US&IR=T |
Description | IWAC 2016, 3D printing components for energy storage devices, Limoges, France 26-28 September 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk in international conference. Disseminated our work on graphene 3D printing to an international audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Inteview about Graphene 3D printing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview in Spanish web newspaper, El Publico, about progress in graphene 3D printing. Engaged the general public with a new technology |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://blogs.publico.es/eureka/2015/03/22/el-material-del-futuro-llega-a-la-impresora-3d/ |
Description | Invited Talk POEM. 2nd Photonic and OptoElectronic Materials Conference, University College London, |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited Talk POEM. 2nd Photonic and OptoElectronic Materials Conference, University College London, 09-12 April 2019 Towards Printing and Packing Energy Storage Devices |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.poem2019.com |
Description | Invited talk in the Bioinspired processing of ceramics symposium ICACC19 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 43rd International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites Invited talk in the Bioinspired processing of ceramics symposium ICACC19 January 27th to February 1st 2019 ICACC-FS1-011-2019 Processing Novel Materials to Engineer Bioinspired Ceramic Composites Daytona, FL (USA) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://ceramics.org/event/43rd-international-conference-and-exposition-on-advanced-ceramics-and-com... |
Description | Invited talk: 'Graphene 3D printing' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited talk at the Wellcome Trust HQ in London. It disseminated our 3D printing technology by Esther Garcia Tunon. Discussion afterwards opened new opportunities for collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Miriam Miranda*, Na Ni, Ben Milsom, Michael J. Reece, Eduardo Saiz. The influence of carbon nanostructures on the sintering of ZrO2. CapStone, Haifa (Israel), 2013. Poster |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The poster generated scientific discussions As a consequence of the discussions our group has been asked to participate in a couple of large European project applications currently being prepared |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Miriam Miranda, Na Ni, Ben Milsom, Michael J. Reece, Eduardo Saiz. Sintering studies of ceramic-carbon structures by spark plasma sintering (SPS). Talk at MS&T'13. Montreal, 2013. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The talk generated interest and future contacts The talk also generated communication and collaborations |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | PACRIM 2015, Jeju Island, Korea. Novel approach for producing bioinspired ceramic nanocomposites based on ice-templated graphene. Olivier Picot, Victoria G. Rocha, Claudio Ferraro, Na Ni, Ton Peijs, Mike Reece, Eduardo Saiz foams and ceramic precursors. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Conference presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Presentation Carbon Conference 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | V. G. Rocha, E García-Tuñón, C. Botas, F. Markoulidis, E. Feilden, E. D'Elia, N. Ni, M. Shaffer and E. Saiz. Towards 3D Printing Devices for Energy Storage. Carbon Conference 2017. 23th-28th July, 2017, Melbourne, Australia. Oral Presentation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation RAMS 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | V.G.Rocha, , E. García-Tuñon, E. Saiz. Engineering and Processing Chemically Modified Graphene into 3D structures: Towards real applications. Recent Appointees in Materials Science. RAMS 2017, 11th-12th Sept, Exeter, UK |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | RAMS 2016, 3D printing graphene based devices, 23rd September 2016, Lancaster University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk at the RAMS2016 symposium for new academics in Materials Science in UK by Esther Garcia Tunon. Established new links with young academics in UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | RECENT APPOINTEES IN MATERIALS SCIECE RAMS 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on advances on the processing of graphene structures. Audience of young researchers and new UK academics. It trigger some discussion and talks potential collaborations |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Rheology of printable soft materials for 3D manufacturing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited talk at the Non Newtonian Club, British Society of Rheology, 'Rheology of printable soft materials for 3D manufacturing' September 2019, University of Nottingham |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Suelen Barg, Claudio Ferraro, Esther Garcia-Tuñon, Na Ni, Eduardo Saiz. Structural and Functional Complex Cellular Networks. Highlight lecture at MSE 2014, 09/2014, Darmstadt, Germany, |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The presentation generated scientific exchange afterwards The talk has been followed by further contacts and discussions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Suelen Barg, Felipe M Perez, Na Ni, Paula do V Pereira, Esther Garcia-Tuñon, Salvador Eslava, Cecilia Mattevi, Eduardo Saiz. Graphene Complex Cellular Networks, Graphene Conference, Toulouse, France, 05/2014. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | poster presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The poster attracted interest and was followed by discussions We have been contacted by BASF that wanted to know more about our research on graphene and have asked Profs Saiz and Dr. Mattevi to visit their headquarters to deliver a seminar and for further discussions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Talk Gordon Conference: Formulation of Printable Soft Materials for Enhanced Performance in 3D Manufacturing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited/keynote talk at Colloidal, Macromolecular and Polyelectrolyte Solutions, Gordon Research Conference, Engineered Response in Soft Matter "Formulation of Printable Soft Materials for Enhanced Performance in 3D Manufacturing" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Talk in MRS Spring meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk in MRS Spring Meeting 2019, Phoenix, Arizona CP02.07.02 : Assembly and Rheology of 2D Colloids and Their Role in 3D Printing, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://mrsspring2019.zerista.com/event/member/557682 |
Description | Talk: Formative formulation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk in the Formative Formulation meeting 18th March 2019, University of Cambridge, Maxwell Centre |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.formulation.org.uk/form-home.html |
Description | workshop with KTN: 4th October 2016, London, Nano4Industry 4.0 invited talk: Institute of Physics, 3D printing graphene based devices - 8th November 2016, London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Talk in a workshop on graphene organized by KTN. The discussion opened new opportunities for collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |