MRI-R2: Acquisition of a Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) for Research. Research Training, and Education at Southern University a Research Undergraduate Institution (RUI)

技术摘要：该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。近年来，传统的透射电子显微镜（TEM）已经发展成为一种精密的技术，能够提供x射线分析无法充分处理的材料结构的直接信息，或者更重要的是，提供局部结构的信息，而不是通过x射线或中子衍射分析确定的平均结构。随着高分辨率透射电镜的出现，现在有了探测复杂体系局部结构的技术。瞬变电磁法已成为生命科学、物理科学、材料科学、环境科学等领域的重要研究工具。它对于研究复杂的体系，如组织、聚合物、凝胶、多金属氧化物等，尤其重要。因此，该奖项旨在获得一台高分辨率透射电镜仪器，以增强透射电镜的能力，使我们能够使用这些先进的技术来解决具体的研究问题，并将我们的研究与南方大学和a & M学院的教育和学生培训结合起来，a & M学院是历史上最大的黑人学院/大学（HBCU）和研究型本科机构（RUI）。概要：本奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。200千伏透射电镜仪器的目标是加强和增加南方大学生物、化学、物理、机械工程和电气工程专业学生的研究、研究教育和培训。此外，该仪器将为我们提供高分辨率TEM能力，并为常规和最先进的高分辨率TEM提供用户友好和高效的TEM仪器。有两个具体目标：第一个目标是丰富和加强研究与透射电子显微镜不可或缺的研究工具，第二个目标是提供机会，让学生熟悉和参与透射电子显微镜的研究。TEM设备将产生新的见解，为巴吞鲁日南方大学（SUBR）的研究人员提供一种新的最先进的分析工具，这将极大地提高他们的研究质量。TEM设施将营造一个与本科教学相辅相成的研究氛围，同时继续SUBR的使命，以高效的方式将研究和教学结合起来，培养和发展未来的年轻、有才华的工程师和科学家。TEM设施将在培养少数民族科学家方面发挥重要作用，这些科学家将为成为未来的材料科学家、化学家、物理学家和/或工程师做好更好的准备。特别是，该项目还将对SUBR的教师和学生产生重大影响，使他们接触到与透射电子显微镜相关的研究，这是一个少数民族学生非常稀缺的领域。SUBR的高分辨率TEM将激发学生的兴趣，鼓励他们攻读工程和科学方面的研究生课程。

0959105WalkerSouthern UniversityTechnical Summary: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). In recent years, conventional Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) has evolved into an exquisite technique capable of providing direct information on the structure of materials not adequately handled by x-ray analysis or, more important, on local structure rather than the average structure determined by x-ray or neutron diffraction analysis. With the advent of high-resolution TEM, techniques now exist to probe the local structure of complex systems. TEM has become an important research tool in the life, physical, material, and environmental sciences. It is especially essential to the study of complex systems such as tissue, polymers, gels, multi metal oxides, etc. Accordingly, this award is for the acquisition of a high-resolution TEM instrument to enhance the TEM capabilities, to allow us to use these advance techniques to solve specific research problems, and to integrate our research with education and student training at Southern University and A & M College, the largest Historical Black College/University (HBCU) and research undergraduate institution (RUI). Layman Summary: This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The goal of the 200 kV TEM instrument is to strengthen and increase research, research education, and training of students from Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering at Southern University. Additionally, this instrument will afford us high-resolution TEM capabilities and provide a user friendly and efficient TEM instrument for routine and state-of-the-art high-resolution TEM. There are two specific objectives: The first objective is to enrich and enhance research with Transmission Electron Microscopy an indispensable research tool, and the second objective is to provide opportunities for students to become familiar and participate in TEM research.The TEM facility will yield new insights by providing researchers at Southern University at Baton Rouge (SUBR) with a new state-of-the-art analytical tool that will immeasurably enhance the quality of their research. The TEM facility will foster a research atmosphere complimentary to undergraduate teaching, while continuing SUBR's mission to combine research and teaching in a highly productive manner for the training and development of young, highly talented engineers and scientists of the future. The TEM facility will play an important role in the training of minority scientists who will be better prepared to become future materials scientists, chemists, physicists, and/or engineers. In particular, this project will also have a significant impact on faculty and students at SUBR by exposing them to Transmission Electron Microscopy related research, a field where the number of minority students is very scarce. The high-resolution TEM at SUBR will catalyze the students' interest and encourage them to pursue graduate studies in engineering and the sciences.