MRI: Acquisition of a Ultra-High Resolution Analytical Scanning Electron Microscope for Multidisciplinary Research and Education

NontechnicalThis重大研究仪器奖是收购超高分辨率扫描电子显微镜（UHR/SEM），用于确定纳米级材料的结构和化学，以推进辛辛那提大学（UC）和该地区50多名教师，学生和科学家的研究。该仪器将加强和推进多个研究领域和博士后，研究生和本科生在国家的最先进的纳米表征技术的教育，加强推广计划，并为学生和代表性不足的群体提供新的机会，符合UC的使命。当地其他大学（迈阿密大学、俄亥俄州州立大学等）的许多其他师生，工业和政府实验室的研究人员也将受益于使用这种仪器。该仪器的研究，创新，发现和教育将推进材料和设备及其可靠性因素的科学;它将导致具有独特性能和性能的新材料和产品以及材料/设备/产品设计的新策略;帮助工业和政府实验室的科学家开发和实施先进材料和设备;培养新的用户，合作和战略研究，涉及学术界和工业界;并最终导致训练有素的科学家高度合格的先进职业生涯中的工程材料和设备在各个部门，以提高我们的国家？的全球竞争力。新的UHR/SEM，与适当的辅助设备，为散装和薄箔样品，将安装和管理内的先进材料表征中心（AMCC）在辛辛那提大学（UC），并将用于研究范围广泛的多学科问题，在半导体纳米线，催化，结构材料，纳米技术和生物传感器相关的结构，化学和现象的物质在纳米级，从而推进以变革的方式机制为基础的理解合成-加工-结构-性能，先进材料和器件的可靠性关系。使用该仪器的研究将使人们能够深入了解半导体纳米线对太阳能电池性能的结构影响，探索管理，限制和增强高温结构材料可靠性的基本机制，推进对碳纳米管和石墨烯器件和传感器的理解，并阐明功能化金属，磁性和光子上转换纳米颗粒在生物传感器中的作用，光动力疗法和抗菌剂以及催化金属/氧化物纳米颗粒的结构和表面化学。

NontechnicalThis Major Research Instrumentation award is for the acquisition of a UltraHigh Resolution Scanning Electron Microscope (UHR/SEM) for determining the structure and chemistry of materials at the nanoscale to advance the research of over 50 faculty, students and scientists at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and the region. This instrument will strengthen and advance multiple research areas and education of post-docs and graduate and undergraduate students in state-of-the-art nanoscale characterization techniques, strengthen outreach programs and provide new opportunities for students and underrepresented groups, in line with the mission of the UC. Many other faculty and students at other local universities (Miami University, Ohio State University, etc.), and researchers in industry and government labs, will also benefit by having access to this instrument. Research, innovation, discoveries and education with the instrument will advance the science of materials and devices and factors governing their reliability; it will lead to new materials and products with unique properties and performance and new strategies for materials/device/product design; aid scientists in industry and government labs in the development and implementation of advanced materials and devices; foster new users, collaborations and strategic research involving academia and industry; and ultimately lead to expertly trained scientists highly qualified for advanced careers in engineering materials and devices in various sectors to enhance our nation?s global competitiveness. TechnicalThe new UHR/SEM, with appropriate ancillary devices for bulk and thin foil samples, will be installed and managed within the Advanced Materials Characterization Center (AMCC) at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and will be utilized to study a broad range of multidisciplinary problems in semiconductor nanowires; catalysis; structural materials; nanotechnology and biosensors relating to the structure, chemistry and phenomena of matter at the nanoscale and thereby advance in a transformative way the mechanism-based understanding of synthesis-processing-structure-property-reliability relationships of advanced materials and devices. Research using this instrument will enable insight into the structural implications of semiconductor nanowires for solar cell performance, probe the fundamental mechanisms that govern, limit and enhance reliability of high temperature structural materials, advance understanding of carbon nanotube and graphene devices and sensors, and illuminate the role of functionalized metallic, magnetic and photon upconverting nanoparticles in biosensors, photodynamic therapy and antibacterial agents and of the structure and surface chemistry of catalytic metallic/oxide nanoparticles.