Award Abstract # 1752611
CAREER: Directed Self-Assembly of 2D Plasmonic Nanoparticles in Block Copolymer Nanofibers to Form Hierarchical Nanostructures
NSF Org: |
DMR
Division Of Materials Research
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Recipient: |
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY
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Initial Amendment Date: |
November 27, 2017 |
Latest Amendment Date: |
February 18, 2022 |
Award Number: |
1752611 |
Award Instrument: |
Continuing Grant |
Program Manager: |
Andrew Lovinger
alovinge@nsf.gov
(703)292-4933
DMR
Division Of Materials Research
MPS
Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
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Start Date: |
March 1, 2018 |
End Date: |
August 31, 2024 (Estimated) |
Total Intended Award Amount: |
$585,000.00 |
Total Awarded Amount to Date: |
$644,508.00 |
Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2018 = $117,000.00
FY 2019 = $117,000.00
FY 2020 = $117,000.00
FY 2021 = $176,508.00
FY 2022 = $117,000.00
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History of Investigator: |
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Guoliang Greg
Liu
(Principal Investigator)
gliu1@vt.edu
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Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
300 TURNER ST NW
BLACKSBURG
VA
US
24060-3359
(540)231-5281
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Sponsor Congressional District: |
09
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Primary Place of Performance: |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
300 Turner St, NW, Ste 4200
Blacksburg
VA
US
24061-0001
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Primary Place of Performance Congressional District: |
09
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Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): |
QDE5UHE5XD16
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Parent UEI: |
M515A1DKXAN8
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NSF Program(s): |
OFFICE OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY AC, DMR SHORT TERM SUPPORT, POLYMERS
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Primary Program Source: |
01001920DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
01002021DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
01002223DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
01001819DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
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Program Reference Code(s): |
1045,
1515,
7237,
8614,
8990
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Program Element Code(s): |
125300,
171200,
177300
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Award Agency Code: |
4900
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Fund Agency Code: |
4900
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Assistance Listing Number(s): |
47.049
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ABSTRACT
PART 1: NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Polymers containing two-dimensional (2D) plasmonic nanoparticles could contribute to transformative technologies such as waveguides, photovoltaics, sensors, actuators, and photo-responsive adhesives. This CAREER project addresses the fundamental issue of designing the interface between polymers and 2D plasmonic nanoparticles. The solutions to this issue will lay the foundation for integrating 2D plasmonic nanoparticles into polymeric materials and creating hybrid functional composites with advanced optical, photo-thermal, and plasmonic properties. In particular, fibers and filaments of polymers with hierarchically stacked 2D plasmonic nanoparticles can be used as inks for additive manufacturing of plasmonic functional constructs. The hybrid material can help design photovoltaics with superior power conversion efficiencies, as well as other functional devices in energy and environmental sciences that are of industrial and societal importance.
The educational impacts involve the training of underrepresented and first-generation college students in Appalachia. In particular, a mini summer research camp for underrepresented students from neighboring Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)will be developed, and the PI will serve as a senior fellow in the university's Residential College to promote STEM and improve the success rate of underrepresented and first-generation college students. In this way, the effort presented here will train underrepresented local youth, especially first-generation college students in isolated Appalachia, to become future polymer scientists and engineers who will build and reshape the regional polymer industries.
PART 2: TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Fibers possess attractive properties that thin films and bulk samples lack, for instance, large surface area, low density, high strength, and peripherally confined self-assembly. The goal of the proposed project is to exploit electrospinning and block copolymer directed self-assembly to create hierarchical structures of block copolymers and 2D plasmonic nanoparticles in fibers, which have fascinating structural and photo-thermal properties. The main scopes are to understand the mechanism of polymer brush formation on 2D plasmonic nanoparticles and design tailored polymer/nanoparticle interfaces for creating hierarchical nanostructures in fibers. The central hypothesis states that, by exploiting the unique plasmonic properties of 2D plasmonic nanoparticles, the polymer brush formation mechanism will be discovered, block copolymer/2D plasmonic nanoparticle interface for hierarchical directed self-assembly in fibers will be prepared, and structural and photothermal properties that are distinctive features of plasmonic polymers will be understood. The proposed goal will be realized via three main tasks: 1) employ 2D plasmonic nanoparticles to unveil the mechanism of polymer brush formation, 2) utilize block copolymers to direct the self-assembly of 2D plasmonic nanoparticles and form hierarchical structures in fibers, 3) understand the domain spacing and photothermal properties of block copolymers upon mixing with 2D plasmonic nanoparticles. The block copolymers are expected to exhibit preferred domain orientation in the fibers, and the 2D nanoparticles to form stacked layers with monolayers of 2D nanoparticles in each block copolymer domain. The hierarchical nanostructures will bestow on polymers novel plasmonic properties and be active candidates for applications in waveguides, photovoltaics, adhesives, and 3D printing inks.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH
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Guo, Yichen and Khan, Assad U. and Cao, Ke and Liu, Guoliang
"Janus Plasmonic Silver Nanoplatelets for Interface Stabilization"
ACS Applied Nano Materials
, v.1
, 2018
10.1021/acsanm.8b01141
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Liu, Tianyu and Liu, Guoliang
"Block copolymer-based porous carbons for supercapacitors"
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
, v.7
, 2019
10.1039/C9TA07770G
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Goodson, Amy D. and Liu, Guoliang and Rick, Maxwell S. and Raymond, Andrew W. and Uddin, Md Fakar and Ashbaugh, Henry S. and Albert, Julie N. L.
"Nanostructure stability and swelling of ternary block copolymer/homopolymer blends: A direct comparison between dissipative particle dynamics and experiment"
Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics
, v.57
, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1002/polb.24834
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Metzman, Jonathan S. and Khan, Assad U. and Magill, Brenden A. and Khodaparast, Giti A. and Heflin, James R. and Liu, Guoliang
"Critical Role of Polystyrene Layer on Plasmonic Silver Nanoplates in Organic Photovoltaics"
ACS Applied Energy Materials
, v.2
, 2019
10.1021/acsaem.8b01860
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Khan, Assad U. and Guo, Yichen and Chen, Xi and Liu, Guoliang
"Spectral-Selective Plasmonic Polymer Nanocomposites Across the Visible and Near-Infrared"
ACS Nano
, v.13
, 2019
10.1021/acsnano.8b09386
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Xu, Zhen and Pan, Fuping and Sun, Mengqi and Xu, Jianjun and Munyaneza, Nuwayo Eric and Croft, Zacary L. and Cai, Gangshu (George) and Liu, Guoliang
"Cascade degradation and upcycling of polystyrene waste to high-value chemicals"
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
, v.119
, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2203346119
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Elliott, John P. and Osti, Naresh C. and Tyagi, Madhusudan and Mamontov, Eugene and Liu, Lifeng and Serrano, Joel M. and Cao, Ke and Liu, Guoliang
"Exceptionally Fast Ion Diffusion in Block Copolymer-Based Porous Carbon Fibers"
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
, v.14
, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c12755
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Dada, Samson N. and Babanyinah, Godwin K. and Tetteh, Michael T. and Palau, Victoria E. and Walls, Zachary F. and Krishnan, Koyamangalath and Croft, Zacary and Khan, Assad U. and Liu, Guoliang and Wiese, Thomas E. and Glotser, Ellen and Mei, Hua
"Covalent and Noncovalent Loading of Doxorubicin by Folic Acid-Carbon Dot Nanoparticles for Cancer Theranostics"
ACS Omega
, v.7
, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c01482
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Serrano, Joel M. and Liu, Tianyu and Guo, Dong and Croft, Zacary L. and Cao, Ke and Khan, Assad U. and Xu, Zhen and Nouh, Elsaid and Cheng, Shengfeng and Liu, Guoliang
"Utilization of Block Copolymers to Understand Water Vaporization Enthalpy Reduction in Uniform Pores"
Macromolecules
, v.55
, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00092
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Ramachandran, Jyotsna and Serrano, Joel M. and Liu, Tianyu and Cho, Jinwon and Arias-Monje, Pedro J. and Lu, Mingxuan and Kirmani, Mohammad Hamza and Elliott, John and Jang, Seung Soon and Liu, Guoliang and Kumar, Satish
"Porous carbon fibers from gel-spun polyacrylonitrile and poly(methyl methacrylate)-block-poly(acrylonitrile)"
Carbon
, v.192
, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2022.02.044
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Xu, Zhen and Munyaneza, Nuwayo Eric and Zhang, Qikun and Sun, Mengqi and Posada, Carlos and Venturo, Paul and Rorrer, Nicholas A. and Miscall, Joel and Sumpter, Bobby G. and Liu, Guoliang
"Chemical upcycling of polyethylene, polypropylene, and mixtures to high-value surfactants"
Science
, v.381
, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh0993
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Tao, Lei and He, Jinlong and Munyaneza, Nuwayo Eric and Varshney, Vikas and Chen, Wei and Liu, Guoliang and Li, Ying
"Discovery of multi-functional polyimides through high-throughput screening using explainable machine learning"
Chemical Engineering Journal
, v.465
, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2023.142949
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Sun, Mengqi and Xu, Zhen and Munyaneza, Nuwayo Eric and Zhang, Yue and Posada, Carlos and Liu, Guoliang
"Solvent-induced competing processes in polycarbonate degradation: depolymerization, chain scission, and branching/crosslinking"
Polymer Chemistry
, v.14
, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1039/d2py01572b
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Croft, Zacary L. and Xu, Zhen and Cao, Ke and Guo, Dong and Sreeharikesan, Saran and Thompson, Connor and Zeltzer, Gabriel and Liu, Guoliang
"Can the Voigt Model be Directly Used for Determining the Modulus of Graphene in Laminate Thin Films?"
ACS Applied Polymer Materials
, v.4
, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.1c01328
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Cao, Ke and Xu, Zhen and Guo, Dong and Liu, Guoliang
"Poly(ether imide)s with tailored end groups"
Journal of Polymer Science
, v.59
, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1002/pol.20210313
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Khan, Assad U. and Zeltzer, Gabriel and Speyer, Gavriel and Croft, Zacary L. and Guo, Yichen and Nagar, Yehiel and Artel, Vlada and Levi, Adi and Stern, Chen and Naveh, Doron and Liu, Guoliang
"Mutually Reinforced Polymer?Graphene Bilayer Membranes for Energy?Efficient Acoustic Transduction"
Advanced Materials
, v.33
, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202004053
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Liu, Tianyu and Liu, Guoliang
"Porous organic materials offer vast future opportunities"
Nature Communications
, v.11
, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15911-8
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Munyaneza, Nuwayo Eric and Posada, Carlos and Xu, Zhen and De Altin Popiolek, Vincenzo and Paddock, Griffin and McKee, Charles and Liu, Guoliang
"A Generic Platform for Upcycling Polystyrene to Aryl Ketones and Organosulfur Compounds"
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202307042
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Wang, Yin and Yang, Xiaozhou and Liu, Tianyu and Li, Zhao and Leskauskas, David and Liu, Guoliang and Matson, John B.
"Molecular-Level Control over Plasmonic Properties in Silver Nanoparticle/Self-Assembling Peptide Hybrids"
Journal of the American Chemical Society
, v.142
, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c03672
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Liu, Tianyu and Liu, Guoliang
"Block copolymers for supercapacitors, dielectric capacitors and batteries"
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
, v.31
, 2019
10.1088/1361-648X/ab0d77
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Serrano, Joel M. and Spiering, Glenn A. and Xu, Zhen and Croft, Zacary and Guo, Dong and Cao, Ke and Moore, Robert B. and Liu, Guoliang
"Humidity-Controlled Preparation of Flexible Porous Carbon Fibers from Block Copolymers"
ACS Applied Polymer Materials
, v.4
, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.2c00534
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Guo, Dong and Zhao, Wenqi and Pan, Fuping and Liu, Guoliang
"Block Copolymer?Derived Porous Carbon Fibers Enable High MnO 2 Loading and Fast Charging in Aqueous Zinc?Ion Battery"
Batteries & Supercaps
, v.5
, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1002/batt.202100380
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Liu, Guoliang
"Block Copolymer Derived Porous Carbon Fiber: An Emerging Structural Functional Material"
Macromolecules
, v.56
, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.3c01528
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Xu, Zhen and Croft, Zacary L. and Guo, Dong and Cao, Ke and Liu, Guoliang
"Recent development of polyimides: Synthesis, processing, and application in gas separation"
Journal of Polymer Science
, v.59
, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1002/pol.20210001
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Guo, Dong and Riet, Jocelyn and Khan, Assad and Guo, Yichen and Xu, Zhen and Liu, Tianyu and Liu, Guoliang
"Mesoporous polyetherimide thin films via hydrolysis of polylactide- b -polyetherimide- b -polylactide"
Polymer Chemistry
, v.12
, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1039/D1PY00601K
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