Global - Promoting Research Partnerships: Strathclyde Escalator for Global Engagements in Research

斯特拉斯克莱德大学正在发展其作为一所领先的国际科技大学的声誉，并在光子学、电力和能源、先进工程和制造以及生物纳米技术等领域展示了优势。在这些主题范围内，已经确定了美国和远东各机构的国际合作伙伴，以便在多个主题上进行长期战略接触。为了发展这些并实现我们雄心勃勃的目标，我们提出了全球参与研究自动扶梯框架。这建立在国际集团和大学之间现有联系的基础上，并规划了升级活动。光子学的主题是通过在先进的生物医学仪器和光学通信方面的国际合作，在微系统中应用氮化镓可见光发光二极管技术。它在一个统一的技术平台下为固态照明带来了两个巨大的机会：用于移动通信的高带宽数据通信接口和用于通过光刺激神经元来控制生物行为的接口。在电力和能源主题中，将创建一个智能电网的国际研究方案。这与一个具有国际重要性的领域产生了共鸣。为了实现英国和全球实现使用可再生能源的低碳经济的目标，电力系统必须进行根本性改革。新的信息和通信技术必须与电力系统运行和控制的进步相结合，以适应电动汽车、新能源服务和各种可再生能源发电技术。我们的目标是通过连接国际专家和智能电网测试设施，在所有这些领域取得新的进展。先进工程和制造主题强调了社会在健康、交通、能源和气候方面的主要挑战。微米和纳米尺度的流动系统工程将在应对这些挑战方面发挥重要作用；例如，纳米过滤海水使其能够供缺水人群饮用，以及在飞机和船舶表面嵌入微纳设备以提高燃料效率和减少二氧化碳排放。我们的目标是与该领域最优秀的国际研究人员合作，提供用于模拟多尺度流动的全面新技术，并在包括下一代光刻在内的战略工程重大挑战中展示这些技术。在这一主题下，EPSRC连续制造和结晶中心致力于在开发新的连续制造技术方面建立新的合作，以提高对颗粒形成的理解，并利用这些知识来提高具有特定有益特性的颗粒的制造。考虑到颗粒加工在许多精细化工行业中的重要性，包括农用化学品、制药、染料、颜料和含能材料，这一点具有巨大的潜力。拟议的与国际专家的联系将导致加速进展，提高以英国为基础的研究的知名度，并最终增加高质量、合作研究成果的机会。生物纳米技术主题推动基于生物相互作用的纳米结构的发明、操作和利用，重点放在医疗保健应用上，最显著的是诊断、再生医学和通过传递或靶向阐明改进药物。通过专注于对此类过程和系统的分子控制，并将物理和生命科学领域的领先研究人员与工程和健康相关学科的研究人员联系起来，目标是产生世界领先的研究成果，并在生物传感器、功能材料和自组装纳米结构等领域得到应用。

The University of Strathclyde is developing its reputation as a leading international technological university and demonstrates strengths in the areas of Photonics, Power and Energy, Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing, and Bionanotechnology. Within these themes international partners at various institutions in the USA and the Far East have been identified for longer term strategic engagements across multiple themes. To develop these and realise our ambitious targets the Global Engagements in Research Escalator framework has been proposed. This builds on existing linkages between international groups and the University and maps out the escalation activities. The Photonics theme focuses on the application of gallium nitride visible light emitting diode technology in microsystems through international collaborations on advanced biomedical instrumentation and optical communications. It brings together under a unified technology platform two tremendous opportunities for solid state lighting: a high-bandwidth data communications interface for mobile communications and an interface for control of behaviour in organisms via optical stimulation of neurons. In the Power and Energy theme an international research programme in smart grids will be created. This resonates with an area of international importance. In order to deliver the UK and global targets for a low carbon economy with renewable energy, the electric power system must change radically. New information and communication technologies must combine with advances in power system operation and control to accommodate electric vehicles, new energy services and a variety of renewable generation technologies. Our aim is to make novel advances in all of these areas by linking international experts and smart grid test facilities. The Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing theme underpins society's major challenges in health, transportation, energy and climate. The engineering of flow systems on the micro and nano scales will play an important role in meeting these challenges; for example, nano-filtering seawater to make it drinkable for water-stressed populations, and embedding micro and nano devices in aeroplane and ship surfaces to improve fuel efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions. Partnering with the best international researchers in the field, our aim is to deliver comprehensive new techniques for simulating multi-scale flows, and demonstrate them on strategic engineering grand challenges including next-generation lithography. Within this theme the EPSRC Centre for Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation is concerned with establishing new collaborations on the development of novel continuous manufacturing technologies to improve understanding of particle formation and exploit this knowledge to enhance manufacture of particles with specific beneficial properties. This has significant potential given the importance of particulate processing across many fine chemical industries including agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, dyes, pigments and energetic materials. The proposed links with international experts will lead to accelerated progress, raised profile of UK-based research and ultimately enhance the opportunities for high quality, collaborative research outcomes. The Bionanotechnology theme drives invention, manipulation and exploitation of nanoscale structures based on biological interactions with an emphasis on healthcare applications, most notably diagnostics, regenerative medicine and improvements to drugs either by delivery or target elucidation. By focusing on the molecular control over such processes and systems and linking leading researchers in the physical and life sciences with those in engineering and health related disciplines, the aim is to produce world leading research with applications in areas such as biosensors, functional materials and self-assembled nanostructures.