Mid-scale RI:1 (M1:IP): A world-class Neutron Spin Echo Spectrometer for the Nation: UD-NIST-UMD Consortium

中型 RI:1 (M1:IP)：面向国家的世界级中子自旋回波谱仪：UD-NIST-UMD 联盟

• 批准号: 1935956
• 负责人: Norman Wagner
• 金额: $ 1180.29万
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1935956&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mid; scale; RI; M1; IP

This award from the Midscale Research Instrumentation -1 program supports the acquisition, implementation and commissioning of a world-class neutron spin echo spectrometer for the nation. The University of Delaware's Center for Neutron Science working together with the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Center for Neutron Research and the University of Maryland are creating a world-class neutron spin echo spectrometer to strengthen U.S. research infrastructure with substantial benefit to the soft matter, biological sciences, and engineering research communities. Upon completion, the instrument will be a key part of the NSF-NIST funded Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering, a national user facility, and enable US scientists to measure materials and their dynamics of direct importance to humanity, e.g. proteins used as biopharmaceuticals, biomembranes and transport across such membranes in living cells, advanced nanocomposites with superior water purification properties and more powerful, longer-life batteries. The instrument uniquely provides these and additional measurement capabilities by closing a critical gap in US research instrumentation infrastructure, with significant demand from academia and industry alike. The project also educates an advanced workforce to make efficient and effective use of this national resource.The University of Delaware's Center for Neutron Science (CNS) together with the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) and the University of Maryland (UMD) are building a world-class neutron spin echo spectrometer capable of measuring dynamical processes that occur on the timescale of 100s of nanoseconds and longer in soft matter and biological systems. With more than double the accessible time scale and an order of magnitude increase in effective intensity at shorter wavelength, this instrument enables fundamentally new scientific investigations into the dynamical properties of soft matter and biological materials, i.e. structure-function investigations of nanoscale dynamics on the nano-to-micro second timescales, heretofore impossible in the U.S. The instrument is a central component of the NSF-NIST Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS). To ensure a broad scientific application, education and outreach initiatives promote its effective scientific use as well as identify new scientific problems and user communities. The project also educates an advanced workforce to make efficient and effective use of this national resource.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项中期研究工具-1计划的奖项支持对国家的世界一流中子自旋回声光谱仪的获取，实施和调试。特拉华大学中子科学中心与国家标准研究所中子研究中心和马里兰大学合作，正在创建世界一流的中子中子旋转回声光谱仪，以增强美国研究基础设施，从而为软件，生物学科学和工程研究社区提供可观的好处。完成后，该工具将是NSF-NIST资助的高分辨率中子散射，国家用户设施的关键部分，并使美国科学家能够测量材料及其对人类的直接重要性，例如蛋白质用作生物药物，生物膜和跨活细胞中此类膜的运输，具有优质水纯化特性的高级纳米复合材料以及更强大，更长寿的电池。该仪器通过缩小美国研究仪器基础设施的关键差距，提供了这些及其额外的测量功能，并具有学术界和行业的巨大需求。 该项目还向高级劳动力进行了教育，以高效有效地利用这一国家资源。生物系统。 With more than double the accessible time scale and an order of magnitude increase in effective intensity at shorter wavelength, this instrument enables fundamentally new scientific investigations into the dynamical properties of soft matter and biological materials, i.e. structure-function investigations of nanoscale dynamics on the nano-to-micro second timescales, heretofore impossible in the U.S. The instrument is a central component of the NSF-NIST Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering （CHRNS）。为了确保广泛的科学应用，教育和外展计划促进了其有效的科学用途，并确定了新的科学问题和用户社区。 该项目还对高级劳动力进行了教育，以有效地利用该国家资源。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评论标准来评估值得支持的。