Roll-to-roll Self-assembly of Advanced Photonic NanoMaterials (R2R-4Photonics)

先进光子纳米材料的卷对卷自组装（R2R-4Photonics）

• 批准号: EP/N016920/1
• 负责人: Jeremy Baumberg
• 金额: $ 123.61万
• 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: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FN016920%2F1
• 关键词: Roll; roll; Self; assembly; Advanced

It is a major problem to exploit the new ideas emerging from the Photonics/Plasmonics/Metamaterials academic community (in which the UK is strong) for real-world applications. In this field, the intricate structure of metals and dielectrics on the nanoscale produces radically new optical properties which are the basis for many devices and materials. However because the nanoscale architectures are designed by academics with little thought to manufacturability, most of these ideas founder very early against cost, method and volume considerations. We aim to invert this model, examining much more seriously a number of different fabrication routes that look promising for delivering scale-up of manufacturing nanostructures with novel and useful photonic materials and metamaterials functionality. However, blind approaches from considerations only of manufacturability are unlikely to locate useful functionalities. As a result we are strongly guided by a set of successful platforms developed over the last 5 years, which already embed the promise of scale-up due to their use of bottom-up self-assembly. In this programme, we develop such directed-assembly towards real capabilities for manufacturing. Success in this domain will be directly exploited by a number of UK companies, both large and small, but even more importantly will be transformative for UK approaches to manufacturing. Despite huge investments in top-down nanofabrication in the UK, little commercial return has been produced. Alternative approaches based on self-assembly already have traction (for instance inside Unilever), and offer routes to mass-scale production with a cost model that is realistic. What industry needs is not the ideas, but a well-developed research programme into the manufacturing space that will allow them to make use of these advances. Our programme will deliver this through tightly coupling nanoassembly, nanophotonics, and nano-manufacturing.

将光子学/等离子体学/超材料学术界（英国在这方面实力雄厚）涌现的新想法用于实际应用是一个主要问题。在这个领域，纳米尺度上金属和电介质的复杂结构产生了全新的光学特性，这些特性是许多器件和材料的基础。然而，由于纳米架构是由学者们设计的，很少考虑可制造性，这些想法中的大多数都是在成本、方法和体积考虑方面很早就建立起来的。我们的目标是推翻这个模型，更认真地研究许多不同的制造路线，这些路线看起来有希望提供具有新颖和有用的光子材料和超材料功能的纳米结构的大规模制造。然而，只考虑可制造性的盲目方法不太可能找到有用的功能。因此，我们受到过去5年开发的一系列成功平台的强烈指导，这些平台由于使用自下而上的自组装，已经嵌入了扩大规模的承诺。在这个项目中，我们开发这种定向装配，以实现真正的制造能力。这一领域的成功将被许多大大小小的英国公司直接利用，但更重要的是，这将改变英国的制造业方式。尽管英国在自上而下的纳米制造上投入了大量资金，但几乎没有产生商业回报。基于自组装的替代方法已经有了吸引力（例如在联合利华内部），并且提供了具有现实成本模型的大规模生产路线。工业需要的不是创意，而是一个完善的研究计划，进入制造领域，使他们能够利用这些进步。我们的项目将通过紧密耦合的纳米组装、纳米光子学和纳米制造来实现这一目标。

项目成果

Picocavities: a Primer.

皮空腔：底漆。

• DOI: 10.17863/cam.85764
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Baumberg J

Hot electron science in plasmonics and catalysis: what we argue about.

等离激元和催化中的热门电子科学：我们争论的内容。

• DOI: 10.17863/cam.38548
• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Baumberg J

Reality science

现实科学

• DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/31/6/37
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Physics World
• 影响因子: 0.6
• 作者: Baumberg J