NNCI: Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource

软和混合纳米技术实验（SHyNE）资源NNCI网站是西北大学（NU）和芝加哥大学（UC）之间的合作项目，建立在每个机构的悠久历史上，改变了科学和工程的前沿。软纳米结构在性质上通常是聚合物、生物和流体的，而混合表示包括软硬界面的系统。SHYNE设施使人们能够广泛使用广泛的制造，表征和计算基础设施，并采用多方面和跨学科的方法进行变革性科学和使能技术。除了传统的微/纳米加工工具外，SHyNE还提供用于软材料和软硬混合纳米系统的专业功能。SHyNE通过为用户提供现场和远程开放访问最先进的实验室和世界一流的技术专业知识来增强区域能力，以帮助解决非传统领域纳米技术研究和开发中的挑战性问题，如农业，生物医学，化学，食品，地质和环境等行业。SHYNE使命的一个重要组成部分是通过中学和中学后的研究经验和与两所大学的课程整合进行学术推广，以及通过与新闻学院合作的新颖纳米新闻项目进行社会推广。SHyNE促进包括妇女和少数民族在内的代表性不足的群体积极参与科学，并利用芝加哥的公共博物馆进行更广泛的宣传。SHyNE利用智力，学术和设施资源的特殊深度，提供关键的基础设施，以支持研究，应用开发和解决纳米科学和纳米技术的问题，并将这种变革性的方法融入芝加哥和大中西部的社会结构。SHyNE是一个以解决方案为中心，开放获取的合作倡议下运作的NU的国际纳米技术研究所（IIN）的伞，与加州大学的分子工程研究所（IME）的伙伴关系。 SHyNE开放获取用户设施汇集了传统软纳米材料的广泛经验和能力，如生物，聚合物或流体系统以及结合软/硬材料和界面的混合系统。总的来说，软纳米结构和混合纳米结构代表了非凡的科学和技术机会。然而，考虑到100 nm以下的长度规模和相关的复杂性，需要先进的设施来充分发挥其潜力。这些设施需要在大面积上图案化软/混合纳米结构的能力，以及在其原始状态下表征它们的工具/技术。这些不同但综合的需求是由SHyNE满足，因为它协调NU的广泛的低温生物，表征和软纳米图案化能力与最先进的洁净室制造和专业知识在UC的普利兹克纳米工厂（PNF）。SHyNE解决了软/生物结构的合成/组装以及经典洁净室功能与软生物结构的集成方面的新兴需求，提供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与阿贡国家实验室设施协调，并分别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）现有的超级计算和工程专业知识。一系列广泛的创新教育，行业和社会推广，如纳米新闻，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一个综合全面的现代基础设施，用于软/混合系统。

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.