{"id":22,"date":"2015-10-05T19:32:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/?p=22"},"modified":"2015-11-18T14:53:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T14:53:02","slug":"putting-graphene-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/putting-graphene-to-the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting Graphene to the Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/putting-graphene-to-the-test\/sinitskii-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-127 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sinitskii1.jpg\" alt=\"sinitskii\" width=\"1500\" height=\"856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sinitskii1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sinitskii1-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sinitskii1-1024x584.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander Sinitskii<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Graphene has the potential to improve electronics, solar cells and other devices. UNL chemist Alexander Sinitskii is testing this promising nanomaterial with a $538,500 National Science Foundation CAREER award.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s capitalizing on a technique he developed to create atomically precise graphene nanoribbons, ultranarrow bands of one-atom thick sheets of carbon. The precision allows Sinitskii to create nanoribbons with different widths and edges. Now, he\u2019s investigating how these differing characteristics influence the nanoribbons\u2019 properties.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding changes in nanoribbon properties will help Sinitskii and others design materials that improve performance in diverse applications, such as semiconductors, solar cells and fuel cells. He plans to develop prototype devices incorporating graphene nanoribbons.<\/p>\n<p>Sinitskii is an affiliate of both UNL\u2019s NSF-funded <a href=\"http:\/\/mrsec.unl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Materials Research Science and Engineering Center<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unl.edu\/ncmn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the latest MRSEC faculty member to earn a prestigious NSF CAREER award, which supports pre-tenure faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research, education and the integration of education and research. Other MRSEC-affiliated CAREER award winners are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2006-2012: Christian Binek, physics and astronomy, $500,000 for education and research on nanoscale spintronic systems and heterostructures. Binek leads one of MRSEC\u2019s research teams.<\/li>\n<li>2008-2013: Axel Enders, physics and astronomy, $412,000 to study self-assembled magnetic nanostructures to improve data storage and other computing devices. Enders is MRSEC\u2019s associate director.<\/li>\n<li>2009-2014: Eva Franke-Schubert, electrical engineering, $400,000 for research on hybrid chiral nanostructures to enhance computing, electronics and solar cells or batteries.<\/li>\n<li>2012-2017: Xia Hong, physics and astronomy, $600,000 for work on nanomaterials with both magnetic and ferroelectric properties, which may lead to novel materials and devices.<\/li>\n<li>2013-2018: Jinsong Huang, mechanical and materials engineering, $400,000 to study methods for increasing solar cell efficiency using organic polymers as a semiconductive material.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphene has the potential to improve electronics, solar cells and other devices. Capitalizing on a technique he developed, a UNL chemist is testing this promising nanomaterial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[22,6,17,19,11,24,27,21,25,4,23,20,14,18,16,26],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","category-uncategorized","tag-alexander-sinitskii","tag-axel-enders","tag-career-award","tag-chemistry","tag-christian-binek","tag-electrical-engineering","tag-eva-franke-schubert","tag-graphene","tag-jinsong-huang","tag-materials-research-science-and-engineering-center","tag-mechanical-and-materials-engineering","tag-nanomaterial","tag-national-science-foundation","tag-nebraska-center-for-materials-and-nanoscience","tag-physics","tag-xia-hong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/annualreport\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}