Acquisition of Instrumentation for a Materials Characterization and Fabrication Facility

采购用于材料表征和制造设施的仪器

• 批准号: 0521052
• 负责人: Sean Decatur
• 金额: $ 17.2万
• 依托单位: Mount Holyoke College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-01 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0521052&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; Instrumentation; Materials; Characterization; Fabrication

With support from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program, the Department of Chemistry at Mount Holyoke College will acquire a suite of instruments for the characterization and fabrication of materials, including equipment for photolithography, a light microscope, a differential scanning calorimeter, and an instrument for measuring dynamic light scattering. The equipment will be used in four research projects at Mount Holyoke, all involving undergraduate students: the preparation of surface supported microgels using photolithography; the characterization of random coil/beta- sheet/aggregate transitions in a prion peptide; the use of threefold organic acceptors as building blocks for new donor-acceptor assembled materials; and the study of self-assembly of weakly interacting colloids on patterned interfaces. In addition, the equipment will be used in laboratory experiments in a new upper-level elective course in nanotechnology and existing courses in experimental methods and chemical thermodynamics.The research projects and laboratory experiments described in this proposal will be used to expose undergraduate students to problems and methodologies at the cutting edge of chemical science. The chemistry department at Mount Holyoke has a well-established track record for involving undergraduate women in productive research, and the proposed project will help to sustain and expand that effort. New curricular materials and pedagogical approaches developed with the instrumentation from this project will be disseminated to the broader chemical education community.

在主要研究仪器（MRI）计划的支持下，霍利奥克山学院化学系将获得一套用于材料表征和制造的仪器，包括光刻设备，光学显微镜，差示扫描量热仪和动态光散射测量仪器。 该设备将被用于四个研究项目在山霍利奥克，所有涉及本科生：表面支持微凝胶的制备使用光刻法;随机线圈/β-折叠/聚集体转换朊病毒肽的特性;使用三重有机受体作为构建模块的新的供体受体组装材料;和弱相互作用胶体的自组装图案界面的研究。 此外，该设备将用于实验室实验中的一个新的高级选修课程在纳米技术和现有的课程在实验方法和化学热力学。研究项目和实验室实验中所描述的这个建议将被用来暴露本科生的问题和方法在化学科学的前沿。霍利奥克山的化学系在让女本科生参与生产性研究方面有着良好的记录，拟议的项目将有助于维持和扩大这一努力。将向更广泛的化学教育界传播利用这一项目的仪器编制的新教材和教学方法。