NNCI: Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource

NNCI：软和混合纳米技术实验 (SHyNE) 资源

• 批准号: 1542205
• 负责人: Vinayak Dravid
• 金额: $ 500万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1542205&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NNCI; Soft; Hybrid; Nanotechnology; Experimental

The Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource NNCI site is a collaborative venture between Northwestern University (NU) and the University of Chicago (UC), building upon each institution's long history of transforming the frontiers of science and engineering. Soft nanostructures are typically polymeric, biological and fluidic in nature while hybrid represents systems comprising soft-hard interfaces. SHyNE facilities enable broad access to an extensive fabrication, characterization and computational infrastructure with a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary approach for transformative science and enabling technologies. In addition to traditional micro/nanofabrication tools, SHyNE provides specialized capabilities for soft materials and soft-hard hybrid nano-systems. SHyNE enhances regional capabilities by providing users with on-site and remote open-access to state-of-the-art laboratories and world-class technical expertise to help solve the challenging problems in nanotechnology research and development for non-traditional areas such as the agricultural, biomedical, chemical, food, geological and environmental, among other industries. A critical component of the SHyNE mission is scholarly outreach through secondary and post-secondary research experience and integration with curricula at both universities, as well as, societal outreach through a novel nano-journalism project in collaboration with the Medill School of Journalism. SHyNE promotes active participation of underrepresented groups, including women and minorities, in sciences and utilizes Chicago's public museums for broader outreach. SHyNE leverages an exceptional depth of intellectual, academic and facilities resources to provide critical infrastructure in support of research, application development and problem-solving in nanoscience and nanotechnology and integrates this transformative approach into the societal fabric of Chicago and the greater Midwest.SHyNE is a solution-focused, open-access collaborative initiative operating under the umbrella of NU's International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN), in partnership with UC's Institute for Molecular Engineering (IME). SHyNE open-access user facilities bring together broad experience and capabilities in traditional soft nanomaterials such as biological, polymeric or fluidic systems and hybrid systems combining soft/hard materials and interfaces. Collectively, soft and hybrid nanostructures represent remarkable scientific and technological opportunities. However, given the sub-100nm length-scale and related complexities, advanced facilities are needed to harness their full potential. Such facilities require capabilities to pattern soft/hybrid nanostructures across large areas and tools/techniques to characterize them in their pristine states. These divergent yet integrated needs are met by SHyNE, as it coordinates NU's extensive cryo-bio, characterization and soft-nanopatterning capabilities with the state-of-the-art cleanroom fabrication and expertise at UC's Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility (PNF). SHyNE addresses emerging needs in synthesis/assembly of soft/biological structures and integration of classical clean-room capabilities with soft-biological structures, providing expertise and instrumentation related to the synthesis, purification, and characterization of peptides and peptide-based materials. SHyNE coordinates with Argonne National Lab facilities and leverages existing super-computing and engineering expertise under Center for Hierarchical Materials Design (CHiMaD) and Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII), respectively. An extensive array of innovative educational, industry and societal outreach, such as nano-journalism, industry-focused workshop/symposia and collaborations with Chicago area museums, provide for an integrated and comprehensive coverage of modern infrastructure for soft/hybrid systems for the next generation researchers and the broader society.

软纳米技术实验（Shyne）资源NNCI网站是西北大学（NU）（NU）和芝加哥大学（UC）之间的合作企业，它建立在每个机构转变科学和工程领域的悠久历史上。软纳米结构通常是聚合物，生物学和流体本质上的，而混合体代表包含软界面的系统。 Shyne设施可以通过多方面的跨学科方法和能够实现技术的多方面和跨学科的方法来广泛访问广泛的制造，表征和计算基础架构。除了传统的微型/纳米制作工具外，Shyne还为软材料和软性混合纳米系统提供了专门的功能。 Shyne通过为用户提供最先进的实验室和世界一流的技术专长，从而增强了区域能力，以帮助解决非传统领域的纳米技术研究和开发中具有挑战性的问题，例如农业，生物医学，化学，食品，食品，地质和环境以及其他工业。 Shyne任务的一个关键组成部分是通过与Medill新闻学院合作，通过两所大学的二级和大专研究经验和与课程融合的学术宣传以及社会宣传。 Shyne促进了包括妇女和少数民族在内的人数不足的团体的积极参与，并利用芝加哥的公共博物馆进行更广泛的外展活动。 Shyne利用智力，学术和设施资源的特殊深度提供了关键的基础架构，以支持纳米科学和纳米技术的研究，应用程序开发和解决问题的解决方案，并将这种变革性的方法整合到芝加哥和大成中的社会结构中。 （IIN）与UC的分子工程研究所（IME）合作。 Shyne Open-OpenAccess用户设施在传统的软纳米材料（例如生物学，聚合物或流体系统以及混合系统）中汇集了广泛的经验和功能，结合了软/硬材料和接口。总体而言，软和混合纳米结构代表了非凡的科学和技术机会。但是，鉴于长度尺度和相关的复杂性低于100nm，需要先进的设施来利用其全部潜力。这样的设施需要功能来对大面积和工具/技术的软/混合纳米结构进行模板，以在其原始状态下对其进行表征。 Shyne满足了这些不同而综合的需求，因为它可以通过最先进的洁净室制造，并在UC的Pritzker纳米制作设施（PNF）协调NU广泛的冷冻生物，表征和软纳米图案的功能。 Shyne满足了软/生物结构的合成/组装的新兴需求，以及与软生物结构结构的经典清洁室功能的整合，提供了与肽和肽基材料的合成，纯化和表征相关的专业知识和仪器。 Shyne分别与Argonne国家实验室设施协调，并利用分层材料设计中心（CHIMAD）和数字制造与设计创新研究所（DMDII）的现有超级计算和工程专业知识。一系列创新的教育，工业和社会外展活动，例如纳米企业家，以行业为重点的研讨会/研讨会以及与芝加哥地区博物馆的合作，为下一代研究人员和更广泛的社会提供了现代基础架构的综合和全面覆盖。