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Advanced Materials Characterisation Suite in the Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge

剑桥大学麦克斯韦中心的先进材料表征套件

基本信息

批准号：
EP/M000524/1
负责人：
Michael Andrew Parker
金额：
$ 8.11万
依托单位：
University of Cambridge
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2015 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FM000524%2F1
关键词：
Advanced Materials Characterisation Suite Maxwell

项目摘要

The creation of new materials is at the heart of technological advances. The proposed Advanced Materials Characterisation Suite presents a crucial capability that will bridge the step from laboratory preparation of materials with novel physical properties to their use in transformational technologies. The suite will comprise a bespoke Versatile Magnetic Field-Temperature Measurement System, a SQUID-Vibrating Sample Magnetometer, a Physical Properties Measurement System, a Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer and Laue Camera. This equipment will provide cutting edge capabilities necessary to characterise salient properties of novel materials and evaluate their technical promise. A crucial aspect of the advanced materials suite is its interdisciplinary character: users will span not only the departments of Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science and Metallurgy, and Materials Physics of Earth Sciences across Cambridge and other UK HEIs, but also, importantly, industrial partners - linkages with whom are vital for the translation of new materials into technologically relevant applications. Structural, magnetic, electrical, thermal, and optical materials properties over a diverse range of advanced materials in which Cambridge is conducting world leading research will be characterised using the equipment suite. The equipment will offer advantages of high sensitivity, rapid turnaround time, automated or semi-automated operation, and versatile properties measurement, far exceeding currently available capabilities in Cambridge, and in some cases, anywhere in the world. Crucially, the Advanced Materials Characterisation Suite will be supported by skilled technicians to maintain the equipment, and to provide user assistance where needed.Specific areas where existing world-class research in Cambridge will be boosted and new research avenues explored will include advanced alloys, electrodes for Li-ion & alternative batteries, electronic devices beyond silicon-based technology, inorganic-organic hybrid frameworks, multiferroics, nanostructured materials, medical devices, novel superconductors, photovoltaics/photocatalysts, and solid state coolants. These research areas span a substantial number of categories identified by EPSRC as being strategically important including (a) Catalysis, (b) Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, (c) Condensed Matter: Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, (d) Electrochemical Sciences, (e) Functional Ceramics & Inorganics, (f) Materials for Energy Applications, (g) Photonic Materials and Metamaterials, (h) Polymer Materials, (i) Materials Engineering - Metals & Alloys, (j) Spintronics, (k) Superconductivity. The UK academic and industrial user base will greatly benefit from the competitive edge provided by this state-of-the-art measurement characterisation capability. Industrial users in particular will gain access to advanced materials characterisation equipment outside the scope of their traditional usage capabilities, with immediate impact on superior materials development for new technologies. Further, the Advanced Materials Characterisation Suite will provide an ideal training ground for graduate students, particularly in EPSRC supported Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs), who will constitute some of the core users of the equipment suite, and will gain expertise in materials-related techniques. The combination of state-of-the-art equipment, technical support, and location in the Maxwell Centre designed expressly for interdisciplinary and cross academic-industrial linkages will ensure the effective operation of the multi-user Advanced Materials Characterisation Suite.

新材料的创造是技术进步的核心。提出的先进材料表征套件提供了一种至关重要的能力，它将从实验室制备具有新物理特性的材料到其在转型技术中的应用之间架起桥梁。该套件将包括一个定制的多功能磁场温度测量系统，一个squid振动样品磁力计，一个物理特性测量系统，一个单晶x射线衍射仪和劳厄相机。该设备将提供必要的尖端能力，以表征新材料的显着特性并评估其技术前景。先进材料套件的一个关键方面是它的跨学科特征：用户不仅将跨越剑桥大学和其他英国高等教育机构的化学系、物理系、材料科学与冶金系、地球科学的材料物理系，而且重要的是，还将跨越工业合作伙伴——与他们的联系对于将新材料转化为技术相关应用至关重要。剑桥大学正在进行世界领先的先进材料研究，其结构、磁性、电学、热学和光学材料的特性将使用该设备套件进行表征。该设备将提供高灵敏度、快速周转时间、自动化或半自动化操作以及多功能特性测量等优势，远远超过剑桥大学目前的可用能力，在某些情况下，甚至超过世界上任何地方。至关重要的是，先进材料表征套件将由熟练的技术人员支持，以维护设备，并在需要时提供用户帮助。剑桥现有的世界级研究领域将得到推动，新的研究途径将探索包括先进合金，锂离子和替代电池电极，硅基技术以外的电子设备，无机-有机混合框架，多铁质，纳米结构材料，医疗设备，新型超导体，光伏/光催化剂和固态冷却剂。这些研究领域跨越了EPSRC确定的具有战略重要性的大量类别，包括(a)催化，(b)凝聚态物质：电子结构，(c)凝聚态物质：磁性和磁性材料，(d)电化学科学，(e)功能陶瓷和无机物，(f)能源应用材料，(g)光子材料和超材料，(h)聚合物材料，(i)材料工程-金属与合金，(j)自旋电子学，(k)超导。英国的学术和工业用户基础将极大地受益于这种最先进的测量特性能力所提供的竞争优势。特别是工业用户将获得超出其传统使用能力范围的先进材料表征设备，对新技术的优质材料开发产生直接影响。此外，先进材料表征套件将为研究生提供理想的培训场所，特别是在EPSRC支持的博士培训中心（CDTs），他们将构成设备套件的一些核心用户，并将获得材料相关技术的专业知识。最先进的设备、技术支持和麦克斯韦中心的位置的结合，专为跨学科和跨学术-工业联系而设计，将确保多用户先进材料表征套件的有效运行。