Nanometal-Interconnected Carbon Conductors (Niccs) For Advanced Electric Machines Award Number: DE-EE0007863 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B3.15 Advanced Manufacturing Office Date: 2/24/2017 Location(s): NY Office(s): Golden Field Office
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March 15, 2017
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Nanometal-Interconnected Carbon Conductors (Niccs) For Advanced Electric Machines
Award Number: DE-EE0007863
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B3.15
Advanced Manufacturing Office
Date: 2/24/2017
Location(s): NY
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide funding to Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to develop nanometal-interconnected carbon conductors for use in advanced electric machines.
RIT and its partners would conduct research on carbon nanotube (CNT) rovings and extruded wire materials through chemical vapor deposition process modifications, chemical treatments, and electroplating to incorporate nanoscale materials and enhance network transport. This would be followed by modifying the CNT surface chemistry to develop solution phase and vapor phase deposition technologies to increase the mass loading of dopants or metals in a CNT wire which would optimize the synergy between roving production, chemical and electrochemical modification, and vapor phase deposition to enhance conductivity.