MRI: Acquisition of a Confocal Raman Microscope to Advance Research and Undergraduate Teaching in Southern Colorado

MRI：购买共焦拉曼显微镜以推进南科罗拉多州的研究和本科教学

• 批准号: 2117144
• 负责人: Eli Fahrenkrug
• 金额: $ 17.77万
• 依托单位: Colorado College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2117144&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Confocal; Raman; Microscope

This award is supported by the Major Research Instrumentation program. Colorado College is acquiring a confocal Raman microspectrometer system to support the research of Professor Eli Fahrenkrug and colleagues Neena Grover, Amanda Bowman, Adam Light and Donald Clayton from Colorado College. This microspectrometer allows research in a variety of fields such as polymorph crystallization and bipolar electrochemistry, solid-state ionics and nanolaminates, nucleic acid metal binding, cold plasma physics, in-vivo sensors, surface chemistry, virology, and spin-crossover behavior. In general, Raman spectromicroscopy is a powerful tool to probe chemical reactions and the chemistry of surfaces. Raman spectroscopy is based on the scattering of light by chemical species based on their electronic and vibrational properties, and spectromicroscopy takes advantage of these light scattering properties to perform microscopy on a very wide range of chemical samples.The award of the Raman microspectrometer is aimed at enhancing research and education at all levels. It is the only instrument of this type in Southern Colorado, and a wide range of institutions that serve undergraduate and underrepresented students are participants in research and teaching plans involving the instrument. The Raman microspectrometer particularly provides chemical analysis to projects spanning heterogenous catalysis, geochemistry, crystal growth, plasma physics, structural biology, biophysics, plasmonics, and thin films.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.

该奖项由主要研究仪器计划支持。 科罗拉多学院正在采购共焦拉曼显微光谱仪系统，以支持科罗拉多学院的 Eli Fahrenkrug 教授及其同事 Neena Grover、Amanda Bowman、Adam Light 和 Donald Clayton 的研究。 该微型光谱仪可用于多种领域的研究，例如多晶型结晶和双极电化学、固态离子和纳米层压材料、核酸金属结合、冷等离子体物理、体内传感器、表面化学、病毒学和自旋交叉行为。 一般来说，拉曼光谱显微镜是探测化学反应和表面化学的强大工具。 拉曼光谱基于化学物质的电子和振动特性对光的散射，光谱显微镜利用这些光散射特性对非常广泛的化学样品进行显微镜观察。拉曼显微光谱仪的获奖旨在加强各个层面的研究和教育。它是南科罗拉多州唯一的此类仪器，为本科生和代表性不足的学生提供服务的众多机构都参与了涉及该仪器的研究和教学计划。 拉曼显微光谱仪特别为非均相催化、地球化学、晶体生长、等离子体物理学、结构生物学、生物物理学、等离激元学和薄膜等项目提供化学分析。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。