Acquisition and Development of a Non-linear Optical Microscope Workbench Facility for Research and Education at the Harvard Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures

该奖项来自主要仪器项目，用于奖励在哈佛大学获得的共聚焦显微镜。这台共聚焦显微镜将成为最先进的光学显微镜设备的核心，该设备将成为成像和介观结构中心（CIMS）的核心组成部分，该中心最近在哈佛大学成立，是对科学重新支持的总体倡议的一部分。该设施将为哈佛研究界提供全面的现代光学显微镜，使光学成像具有前所未有的分辨率和灵敏度。这将促进广泛的新研究，并将有助于在哈佛大学建立新的跨学科研究项目，连接化学、物理、工程、材料科学、生物学和医学等学科。这将有助于实现CIMS和该设施的重要教育目标，即确保学生熟练掌握最先进的显微镜技术，并精通跨学科合作。研究范围从材料科学到生物学，从新型结构材料的合成到探测活细胞内的单个大分子。这项来自主要仪器项目的奖励将帮助哈佛大学获得共聚焦显微镜。这台设备将成为最先进的光学显微镜设备的核心，该设备将成为成像和介观结构中心（CIMS）的核心组成部分，该中心最近在哈佛大学成立，作为对科学重新支持的总体倡议的一部分。该设施将为哈佛研究界提供全面的现代光学显微镜，使光学成像具有前所未有的分辨率和灵敏度。这将促进广泛的新研究，并将有助于在哈佛大学建立新的跨学科研究项目，连接化学、物理、工程、材料科学、生物学和医学等学科。这将有助于实现CIMS和该设施的重要教育目标，即确保学生熟练掌握最先进的显微镜技术，并精通跨学科合作。

This award from the Major Instrumentation Program is for the acquisition of a confocal microscope at Harvard University. This confocal microscope will be the heart of a state-of-the-art optical microscopy facility which will be a core component of the Center for Imaging and Mesoscopic Structures (CIMS), recently established at Harvard University as part of a general initiative of renewed support for the sciences. The facility will provide the Harvard research community with a complete range of modern optical microscopy that will enable optical imaging with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. This will facilitate a broad range of new research, and will help establish new interdisciplinary research programs at Harvard University, bridging the disciplines of chemistry, physics, engineering, materials science, biology and medicine. This will help meet the important educational aim of CIMS, and this facility, which is to ensure that students become skilled in state-of-the-art microscopy, and are well versed in interdisciplinary collaboration. The research to be conducted ranges from materials science to biology, from synthesis of novel structured materials to probing single macromolecules inside living cells.This award from the Major Instrumentation Program will help Harvard University with the acquisition of a confocal microscope. This equipment will be the heart of a state-of-the-art optical microscopy facility which will be a core component of the Center for Imaging and Mesoscopic Structures (CIMS), recently established at Harvard University as part of a general initiative of renewed support for the sciences. The facility will provide the Harvard research community with a complete range of modern optical microscopy that will enable optical imaging with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. This will facilitate a broad range of new research, and will help establish new interdisciplinary research programs at Harvard University, bridging the disciplines of chemistry, physics, engineering, materials science, biology and medicine. This will help meet the important educational aim of CIMS, and this facility, which is to ensure that students become skilled in state-of-the-art microscopy, and are well versed in interdisciplinary collaboration.