Lancaster University ECR Equipment

兰卡斯特大学 ECR 设备

• 批准号: EP/S017836/1
• 负责人: Stephen Decent
• 金额: $ 19.11万
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FS017836%2F1
• 关键词: Lancaster; University; ECR; Equipment

This funding will be used to support new research equipment for Lancaster University's early career researchers (ECRs) in our Materials Science Institute (MSI), in line with EPSRC's World Class Labs initiative.Lancaster's MSI is a strategic focus for the University, bringing together all of our academics in the Materials Science space for the first time around a number of common research themes. This funding is centred around the first theme of the MSI recently launched in September 2017 - Active Surfaces and Interfaces, encouraging extensive collaboration between chemistry, engineering and physics, involving 42 academics, of which 40% are ECRs. Many of these ECRs have been attracted to Lancaster through our 50th Anniversary Lectureship scheme, which aims to nurture the research leaders of tomorrow, with significant teaching relief and a fantastic package of support for their career and research development.This investment from EPSRC, along with preceding institutional investment (totalling £55M over the past 6 years) will enable world-class research into a new class of three-dimensional organic and organometallic structures with tailored porosity and functionality. These new materials will have applications in topics such as energy storage and conversion, heterogeneous catalysis and quantum technologies. It is important to note that these areas of research did not exist at Lancaster prior to appointment of our ECRs and only came together with the formation of the MSI and the interdisciplinary opportunities it afforded.Understanding the exact nature of the structure and properties of these materials (and of many others) is a key issue in this research area, typified by restrictions in the capabilities available to characterise them. This problem is often a limiting factor in new materials development and thus this bid will provide equipment to enable these characterisations, speeding up the process of new materials development by providing excellent ECRs with world-class facilities. The ECRs that will benefit from this equipment will be strategically positioned to exploit: comprehensive multiscale capabilities in fabricating materials ranging from molecular structure to bulk material; world-leading materials characterisation; and expertise in applying materials science innovations to real world problems.

这笔资金将用于支持兰开斯特大学材料科学研究所(MSI)的早期职业研究人员(ECR)的新研究设备，这与EPSRC的世界级实验室倡议保持一致。兰开斯特的材料科学研究所是兰开斯特大学的战略重点，首次将我们材料科学领域的所有学者聚集在一起，围绕一些共同的研究主题。这笔资金集中在2017年9月启动的MSI的第一个主题--活跃的表面和界面，鼓励化学、工程和物理之间的广泛合作，涉及42名学者，其中40%是ECR。这些ECR中的许多人是通过我们的50周年讲座计划被吸引到兰开斯特的，该计划旨在培养明天的研究领导者，为他们的职业生涯和研究发展提供巨大的教学救济和奇妙的一揽子支持。EPSRC的这项投资，加上之前的机构投资(过去6年总计5500万GB)，将使世界级的研究成为具有定制孔隙度和功能的新类别的三维有机和有机金属结构。这些新材料将在能量存储和转换、多相催化和量子技术等主题中有应用。值得注意的是，在任命我们的ECR之前，兰开斯特并不存在这些研究领域，只是随着MSI的形成和它提供的跨学科机会而结合在一起。了解这些材料(以及许多其他材料)的结构和性能的确切性质是该研究领域的一个关键问题，其特点是可用于表征它们的能力受到限制。这一问题通常是新材料开发的限制因素，因此，此次招标将提供设备来实现这些特性，通过提供具有世界级设施的优秀ECR来加快新材料开发的进程。将从这种设备中受益的ECR将处于战略地位，以利用以下优势：制造从分子结构到块状材料的材料的综合多尺度能力；世界领先的材料表征；以及将材料科学创新应用于现实世界问题的专业知识。