MRI: Acquisition of a Nanoimprinting System for Research and Education

MRI：获取用于研究和教育的纳米压印系统

• 批准号: 0821582
• 负责人: Chunlei Wang
• 金额: $ 39.76万
• 依托单位: Florida International University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0821582&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Nanoimprinting; System; Research

This award provides funds to the Florida International University to acquire a Nanoimprinter for research and education. Nanoimprinting is not governed by the optical diffraction limit and has the capability of large area exposures with high throughput. It will enable researchers at FIU?s open-access lab to conduct several main cutting edge research projects, such as: the development of micro-batteries based on carbon nanoelectrodes; integrated nano-photonic devices based on polymers; the mechanics of nanostructured polymer materials; DNA array biomedical devices; Micro/Nano fluidic devices; and carbon-nanotube sensors. The proposed activities will advance knowledge in and across different fields. By acquiring this next level of capability, FIU researchers and collaborators will be able to perform research on nanotechnology devices and processes that have great potential for actual applications. The successful development of the proposed projects, enabled by the Nanoimprinter acquisition, has broad implications in health care and homeland security. This instrumentation research will integrate undergraduate and graduate student?s training. Existing hands-on laboratory courses will be expanded to include experiments with this new nanoscale mass-production technology. Together with the exciting research topics, the enhanced infrastructure for research at FIU - one of the top Hispanic Serving Institutions in Florida - will attract more students from our underrepresented population into graduate school. A big impact on increasing the number of students in materials science, biomedical and electrical engineering from traditionally underrepresented groups is expected. Exposing graduate and undergraduate students to this new technology in an open-access laboratory will also help to boost interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research collaboration across various research groups, blurring the boundary of departments and even institutions. The Nanoimprinter will be placed in the existing open-access Motorola Nanofabrication Research Facility, and will be easily accessible to campus users as well as other academic and industry users in south Florida.

该奖项为佛罗里达国际大学提供资金，以获得用于研究和教育的纳米压印机。纳米压印不受光学衍射极限的限制，并且具有高通量的大面积曝光能力。它将使研究人员在金融情报室？该实验室的开放获取实验室进行几个主要的前沿研究项目，如：基于碳纳米电极的微型电池的开发;基于聚合物的集成纳米光子器件;纳米结构聚合物材料的力学; DNA阵列生物医学器件;微/纳米流体器件;和碳纳米管传感器。拟议的活动将促进不同领域内和跨领域的知识。通过获得这一新的能力水平，FIU的研究人员和合作者将能够对具有巨大实际应用潜力的纳米技术设备和工艺进行研究。通过收购Nanoimprinter，拟议项目的成功开发对医疗保健和国土安全具有广泛的影响。这项仪器研究将整合本科生和研究生？的训练。现有的动手实验室课程将扩大到包括这种新的纳米级大规模生产技术的实验。与令人兴奋的研究课题一起，在FIU -在佛罗里达顶级西班牙裔服务机构之一-的研究增强的基础设施将吸引更多的学生从我们的代表性不足的人口进入研究生院。预计这将对增加传统上代表性不足的群体的材料科学、生物医学和电气工程学生数量产生重大影响。让研究生和本科生在开放实验室中接触这项新技术，也将有助于促进各个研究小组之间的跨学科和多学科研究合作，模糊部门甚至机构的界限。Nanoimprinter将被放置在现有的开放访问的摩托罗拉纳米纤维研究设施，并将很容易访问校园用户以及其他学术和行业用户在南佛罗里达。