Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering

纳米先进材料工程

• 批准号: EP/V001914/1
• 负责人: Richard Curry
• 金额: $ 977.54万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FV001914%2F1
• 关键词: Nanoscale; Advanced; Materials; Engineering

Development of materials has underpinned human and societal development for millennia, and such development has accelerated as time has passed. From the discovery of bronze through to wrought iron and then steel and polymers the visible world around has been shaped and built, relying on the intrinsic properties of these materials. In the 20th century a new materials revolution took place leading to the development of materials that are designed for their electronic (e.g. silicon), optical (e.g. glass fibres) or magnetic (e.g. recording media) properties. These materials changed the way we interact with the world and each other through the development of microelectronics (computers), the world wide web (optical fibre communications) and associated technologies.Now, two decades into the 21st century, we need to add more functionality into materials at ever smaller length-scales in order to develop ever more capable technologies with increased energy efficiency and at an acceptable manufacturing cost. In pursuing this ambition, we now find ourselves at the limit of current materials-processing technologies with an often complex interdependence of materials properties (e.g. thermal and electronic). As we approach length scales below 100s of nanometres, we have to harness quantum effects to address the need for devices with a step-change in performance and energy-efficiency, and ultimately for some cases the fundamental limitations of quantum mechanics.In this programme grant we will develop a new approach to delivering material functionalisation based on Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering (NAME). This approach will enable the modification of materials through the addition (doping) of single atoms through to many trillions with extreme accuracy (~20 nanometres, less than 1000th the thickness of a human hair). This will allow us to functionalise specifically a material in a highly localised location leaving the remaining material available for modification. For the first time this will offer a new approach to addressing the limitations faced by existing approaches in technology development at these small length scales. We will be able to change independently a material's electronic and thermal properties on the nanoscale, and use the precise doping to deliver enhanced optical functionality in engineered materials. Ambitiously, we aim to use NAME to control material properties which have to date proven difficult to exploit fully (e.g. quantum mechanical spin), and to control states of systems predicted but not yet directly experimentally observed or controlled (e.g. topological surface states). Ultimately, we may provide a viable route to the development of quantum bits (qubits) in materials which are a pre-requisite for the realisation of a quantum computer. Such a technology, albeit long term, is predicted to be the next great technological revolution NAME is a collaborative programme between internationally leading UK researchers from the Universities of Manchester, Leeds and Imperial College London, who together lead the Henry Royce Institute research theme identified as 'Atoms to Devices'. Together they have already established the required substantial infrastructure and state-of-the-art facilities through investment from Royce, the EPSRC and each University partner. The programme grant will provide the resource to assemble the wider team required to deliver the NAME vision, including UK academics, research fellows, and postdoctoral researchers, supported by PhD students funded by the Universities. The programme grant also has significant support from wider academia and industry based both within the UK and internationally.

几千年来，材料的发展支撑着人类和社会的发展，随着时间的推移，这种发展正在加速。从青铜的发现到锻铁，再到钢铁和聚合物，周围的可见世界都是依靠这些材料的内在属性塑造和建造的。在20世纪世纪，发生了一场新的材料革命，导致了针对其电子（例如硅）、光学（例如玻璃纤维）或磁性（例如记录介质）特性而设计的材料的发展。这些材料通过微电子学的发展改变了我们与世界和彼此互动的方式现在，进入21世纪20年，我们需要在更小的长度尺度上为材料增加更多的功能，以便开发更有能力的技术，提高能源效率，并以可接受的制造成本。在追求这一目标的过程中，我们现在发现自己处于当前材料加工技术的极限，材料特性（例如热和电子）之间往往存在复杂的相互依赖关系。当我们接近100纳米以下的长度尺度时，我们必须利用量子效应来解决性能和能效阶跃变化的设备需求，最终在某些情况下解决量子力学的基本局限性。在这项计划资助中，我们将开发一种基于纳米先进材料工程（NAME）的材料功能化新方法。这种方法将能够通过添加（掺杂）单个原子以极高的精度（约20纳米，不到人类头发厚度的千分之一）对材料进行修改。这将使我们能够在高度局部化的位置对材料进行功能化，而剩余的材料可用于修改。这将首次提供一种新的方法，以解决现有方法在这些小尺度技术开发方面所面临的限制。我们将能够在纳米尺度上独立改变材料的电子和热特性，并使用精确的掺杂来增强工程材料的光学功能。雄心勃勃的是，我们的目标是使用NAME来控制迄今为止被证明难以充分利用的材料性质（例如量子力学自旋），并控制预测但尚未直接实验观察或控制的系统状态（例如拓扑表面状态）。最终，我们可以提供一条可行的途径来开发材料中的量子比特（qubit），这是实现量子计算机的先决条件。这种技术，尽管是长期的，预计将是下一个伟大的技术革命名称是一个合作计划之间的国际领先的英国研究人员从曼彻斯特大学，利兹和帝国理工学院伦敦，谁共同领导亨利罗伊斯研究所的研究主题确定为“原子到设备”。他们已经通过罗伊斯，EPSRC和每个大学合作伙伴的投资建立了所需的基础设施和最先进的设施。该计划赠款将提供资源，以组装更广泛的团队需要提供名称的愿景，包括英国学者，研究员和博士后研究人员，由大学资助的博士生的支持。该计划的赠款也得到了英国和国际上更广泛的学术界和工业界的大力支持。

项目成果

Formation of Millimeter Waves with Electrically Tunable Orbital Angular Momentum

• DOI: 10.3390/coatings11050569
• 发表时间: 2021-05
• 期刊: Coatings
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: A. Altynnikov;R. Platonov;A. Tumarkin;P. Petrov;A. Kozyrev

N-heteroacenes as an organic gain medium for room temperature masers

N-杂并苯作为室温微波激射器的有机增益介质

• DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-j0rj6-v2
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Attwood M

A High-Resolution Versatile Focused Ion Implantation Platform for Nanoscale Engineering

用于纳米工程的高分辨率多功能聚焦离子注入平台

• DOI: 10.1002/adem.202300889
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Advanced Engineering Materials
• 影响因子: 3.6
• 作者: Adshead M

N-Heteroacenes as an Organic Gain Medium for Room-Temperature Masers.

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00640
• 发表时间: 2023-06-13
• 期刊: CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
• 影响因子: 8.6
• 作者: Attwood, Max;Xu, Xiaotian;Newns, Michael;Meng, Zhu;Ingle, Rebecca A.;Wu, Hao;Chen, Xi;Xu, Weidong;Ng, Wern;Abiola, Temitope T.;Stavros, Vasilios G.;Oxborrow, Mark
• 通讯作者: Oxborrow, Mark

Pyroelectric and photovoltaic properties of Nb-doped PZT thin films

• DOI: 10.1063/5.0039593
• 发表时间: 2021-04-01
• 期刊: APL MATERIALS
• 影响因子: 6.1
• 作者: Berenov, A.;Petrov, P.;Whatmore, R. W.
• 通讯作者: Whatmore, R. W.