NNCI: Soft Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource

非技术描述：软和混合纳米技术实验（SHyNE）资源NNCI网站是西北大学（NU）与芝加哥大学（UC）的普利兹克纳米工厂（PNF）的合作企业。SHYNE建立在每个机构的转变科学和工程的前沿的悠久历史。软纳米结构通常是聚合物的、生物的和流体的，而混合表示包括结构和混合材料的系统，所述混合材料包括软硬界面。SHYNE设施提供广泛的制造，表征和计算基础设施，为变革性科学和使能技术提供多方面和跨学科的方法。SHyNE为软材料和软硬混合纳米系统提供专业的能力。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长来帮助解决纳米技术研究和开发中的挑战性问题，从而增强了区域能力。SHyNE涵盖非传统行业：农业，生物医学，化学，食品，地质和环境等。的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整合与课程/课程，以及通过与新闻的Medill学校合作的一个新的纳米新闻项目的社会和公众宣传的学术推广。SHyNE促进和便利代表性不足的群体，包括妇女和少数民族，积极参与科学，并利用芝加哥的公共博物馆进行更广泛的社区宣传。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更大的中西部的社会结构。技术描述：SHyNE是一个以解决方案为中心的开放式合作计划，与西北大学国际纳米技术研究所（IIN）有着密切的联系，与芝加哥大学普利兹克分子工程学院合作。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，因为它协调西北大学广泛的低温生物，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也在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/研讨会和与芝加哥地区博物馆的合作，提供一个综合和全面的现代基础设施，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

Non-Technical Description:The Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource NNCI site is the Northwestern University (NU) led collaborative venture with the Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility (PNF) of the University of Chicago (UC). SHyNE builds on each institution's long history of transforming the frontiers of science and engineering. Soft nanostructures are typically polymeric, biological, and fluidic, while hybrid represents systems comprising structures and hybrid materials comprising soft-hard interfaces. SHyNE facilities provides broad access to an extensive fabrication, characterization, and computational infrastructure with a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary approach for transformative science and enabling technologies. 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. SHyNE covers non-traditional industries: agricultural, biomedical, chemical, food, geological and environmental, among others. A critical component of the SHyNE mission is scholarly outreach through secondary and post-secondary research experience and integration with course/curricula as well as societal and public outreach through a novel nano-journalism project in collaboration with the Medill School of Journalism. SHyNE promotes and facilitates active participation of underrepresented groups, including women and minorities, in sciences and utilizes Chicago's public museums for broader community 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.Technical Description:SHyNE is a solution-centric, open-access collaborative initiative with strong ties with Northwestern University's International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN), in partnership with University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. 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 Northwestern's extensive cryo-bio, characterization and soft-nanopatterning capabilities with the state-of-the-art cleanroom fabrication and expertise also 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 workshops/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.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.