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Dream : Faculty : Nanomaterials : Yury Gogotsi
Yury Gogotsi
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Associate Dean of the College of Engineering for Special Projects
NSF CAREER Award
R&D 100 Award 2003
UMRS Somiya Award 2002
Collegiate Inventors’ Award Inventors Hall of Fame
Faculty web page
Novel synthesis techniques such as hydrothermal synthesis of nanotubes
Nano-porous solids are of great technological importance due to their ability to interact with gases and liquids not only at the
surface, but also throughout their bulk. Professor Gogotsi’s group has demonstrated that porosity of carbide-derived carbons (CDCs) can be tuned with sub-Ångström accuracy in a wide range by controlling the chlorination temperature, (Fig. 2). CDCs produced from Ti3SiC2 has a more narrow pore size distribution than single-wall carbon nanotubes or activated carbons; its pore size distribution is comparable with that of zeolites. CDCs can find applications in molecular sieves, gas storage, catalysts, adsorbents, battery electrodes, supercapacitors, water/air filters and medical devices.
Example REU Project: In this project, the undergraduate student would perform experiments to determine the applicability of various bulk CDCs as molecular sieves for liquids. Specifically, the student would work on the purification of salted (sea) water by its propagation through CDCs having pore size of less than the diameter of salt molecules. The content of salt in the purified water would be determined by the conductivity measurements. The student would also get involved in the process of
CDC production and would learn the various aspects of CDC technology.
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