Nanocarbons as building blocks for new materials

Project reference: INTAS-2000-00237

Funded under: IC-INTAS

Nanocarbons as building blocks for new materials

From 2001-08-01 to 2003-07-31

Project details
Total cost:

Topic(s):

Not available

EU contribution:

3 - Chemistry
OPEN - OPEN Call

EUR 150 000

Coordinated in:
Austria

Objective
A variety of carbon nanostructures - nanodiamond (powders and films);
- onion-like carbon,
- fullerenes (C60, C70 and higher fullerenes),
- single-wall carbon nanotubes;
- multi-wall carbon nanotubes will be synthesized, certified and used as building blocks for new materials as
- composites;
- polymerized films;
- tubular materials derived from convex and concave chemistry of nanotubes;
- membranes;
- polymeric matrices containing nanocarbons.
Each of these materials will certainly find technological application in the future due to one of the unique properties: a
superhardness and ultimate mechanical strength, a low threshold and high efficiency of a low-field electron emission, a big
capacity for a gas (and, especially, hydrogen) storage, a possible superconducting behavior and new ability for the information
recording.
The work on the project will include 4 stages:
- synthesis and purification of nanocarbons,
- production of new materials from them;
- investigation of chemical and physical properties of new materials;
- estimation of their perspectives for technological applications.
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Due to a "nano"-nature of the materials under investigation each stage of this project requires a high experimental skill,
modern equipment and an experience in working with nanoobjects which have been earned by the participants due to their
main scientific background and participation in previous and current national and european projects bounding (in different
combinations) some of the teams.
Due to joining the efforts of 9 groups in Europe, Ukraine and Russia (Moscow, Novosibirsk and Troitsk) the main traditional and
modern experimental techniques, instruments and theoretical approaches (needed to work with nanocarbons) become
available and provide a deep and comprehensive insight into the problem of the project.
The following techniques will be used:
- for synthesis and purification
- arc-discharge, pyrolysis, chemical vapor deposition, explosion, gas-phase doping, doping under the pressure, acid-treatment,
chromatography, filtration through polymer, laser etching;
- for a bulk material compacting
- electrophoresis, "air-brush" deposition, photo- polymerization and pressurizing, concave and convex chemistry, polymer
chemistry;
- for characterization ;
-experimentally: a high resolution electron microscopy, a scanning tunneling microscopy, an atomic-force microscopy, X-ray
diffraction, mass-spectrometry, Raman scattering, optical absorption, Fourie-transformed infrared and Raman spectroscopy, Xray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescent spectroscopy; electron-spin resonance, electric transport and magnetic
susceptibility measurements, thermogravimetry, thermo-programmable desorption, cryostats and ovens (for measurements in
a wide temperature range), diamond anvil cells and big presses (for measurements in a wide pressure range);
theoretically: methods of quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics;
- for applications
- measurements of the parameters of a low-field electron emission, measurements on estimation of a hydrogen storage
capacity, indentation tests, stress analysis, gas filtration properties measurements.
As a result of this project a stable controllable synthesis of new bulk nanocarbon-based materials with well-defined chemical
and physical properties will be provided. Quantitative estimations of the materials efficiency for technological applications will
be made. New physical and chemical phenomena that should be discovered during the work with new, earlier unknown
materials will be studied in detail. The question about keeping of the quantum properties of individual nanocarbons bounded in
a bulk material will be answered.

Coordinator
Universitt Wien

Austria

Strudlhofgasse 4
Wien, Austria
Administrative contact: Hans KUZMANY
Tel.: +43-1427751306
Fax: +43-1427751375
E-mail

Participants
Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering

Ukraine

Lenin ave, 47
Kharkov, Ukraine
Administrative contact: Victor Alexseevich KARACHEVTSEV
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Tel.: +380-572-308535
Fax: +380-57-2322370
E-mail
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Germany

Heisenbergstr., 1
Stuttgart, Germany
Administrative contact: Siegmar ROTH, (Group Leader)
Tel.: +49-711-689-1434
Fax: +49-711-689-1010
E-mail
Russian Academy of Sciences

Russia

Vavilov Street 38
Moscow, Russia
Administrative contact: Elena Dmitrievna OBRAZTSOVA
Tel.: +7-095-1328206
Fax: +7-095-1350270
E-mail
Russian Academy of Sciences

Russia

4 Kosygin Str.
Moscow, Russia
Administrative contact: Leonid Alexandrovich CHERNOZATONSKII
Tel.: +7-095-1378347
Fax: +7-095-1374101
E-mail
Siberian branch of Russian Academy of Sciences

Russia

Prospect Ak. Lavrentieva 5

Novosibirsk, Russia
Administrative contact: Andrey Leonidovich CHUVILIN
Tel.: +7-383-2343765
Fax: +7-383-2343056
E-mail
Siberian branch of Russian Academy of Sciences

Russia

3 Acad. Lavrentiev prospekt

Novosibirsk, Russia
Administrative contact: Lyubov Gennadievna BULUSHEVA
Tel.: +7-383-2341366
Fax: +7-383-2344489
E-mail
Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials

Russia

Centralnaya street, 7a
Troitsk, Moscow region, Russia
Administrative contact: Vladimir Davidovich BLANK
Tel.: +7-095-3340855
Fax: +7-095-3340886
E-mail
University of Amsterdam

Netherlands
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Valckenierstraat 65
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Administrative contact: Jan SCHOUTEN
Tel.: +31-20-5256339
Fax: +31-20-5255102
E-mail

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