Topological Engineering Translation Grant
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Nottingham
Department Name: Sch of Chemistry
Abstract
Abstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research. This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission, but may be because it included sensitive information such as personal details.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Mike George (Principal Investigator) | |
| SM Howdle (Co-Investigator) |
Publications
Bartlett P
(2013)
The Electrodeposition of Silver from Supercritical Carbon Dioxide/Acetonitrile
in ChemElectroChem
Bartlett PN
(2014)
Electrodeposition from supercritical fluids.
in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Bartlett PN
(2016)
A Versatile Precursor System for Supercritical Fluid Electrodeposition of Main-Group Materials.
in Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Bartlett PN
(2011)
Phase behaviour and conductivity study of electrolytes in supercritical hydrofluorocarbons.
in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Ke J
(2012)
Electrodeposition of germanium from supercritical fluids.
in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
| Description | This grant aimed to exploit supercritical fluid electrodeposition (SCFED), which we pioneered as part of the Basic Technology program "Topological Engineering", to solve important technological problems in the fields of microelectromechanical (MEMs) accelerometers, magnetic nanowires for recording media, and plasmonic optical metamaterials. We developed a method for electrodeposition from a supercritical fluid. We developed SCFED to enable the deposition of device quality inorganic semiconductors under electrical control/feedback and into nanostructured templates. |
| Exploitation Route | This grant developed a technique to deposit metallic systems as this will allow us to make significant technological impact in the near future. Using a supercritical fluid (SCF) as the medium for electrodeposition adds a number of key advantages to the already widely exploited advantages of electrodeposition. These include zero surface tension, low viscosity, fast mass transport, a large electrochemical window, and the related ability to deposit highly reactive materials. The proposed work on MEMs accelerometers will produce a device with world leading sensitivity and in addition demonstrate the ability to electroplate onto free standing MEMs devices which would be destroyed by surface tension during wetting or drying. These results are obtaining wide interest from both academia and industry and it is hoped this will provide a new approach for electrodeposition which will be taken up by industry. |
| Sectors | Chemicals,Electronics |
| Description | These results have directly linked into a EPSRC programme grant which is exploiting the new technology that has been realised during this grant and which is directly industry facing in what is trying to achieve. These results have been used in many Public Understanding of Science events including a Royal Society Summer Exhibition. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2012 |
| Sector | Chemicals,Electronics |
| Description | EPSRC Programme Grant |
| Amount | £5,140,372 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/I033394/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2011 |
| End | 05/2016 |