Early Career: Mesoscale Fragments of Crystalline Silicon by Chemical Synthesis (Final Technical Report)
- Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States); Johns Hopkins University
Silicon has transformed the modern era, with applications in computing, solar cells, energy storage, and beyond. The traditional approach to making silicon is a high-temperature “top-down” process that affords only the most stable form of silicon, leaving hidden vast swathes of structure-function space. The goal of this program was to establish new approaches to making silicon-based materials from the bottom-up, allowing structural precision from the atomic level up to the bulk, and to understand how structure influences function. Key results included the development of the cyclosilane building blocks and low-temperature methods for their polymerization, as well as new tools for spectroscopic characterization. In addition to revealing new materials chemistry insights, in the five-year period covered by this award, this work resulted in 11 publications and three graduate student theses.
- Research Organization:
- Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0013906
- OSTI ID:
- 1735959
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-JHU--13906
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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