Block copolymers and Ionic Liquids for Data Storage (BILDS)

用于数据存储的嵌段共聚物和离子液体 (BILDS)

• 批准号: EP/X021386/1
• 负责人: Matthew Derry
• 金额: $ 26万
• 依托单位: Aston University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX021386%2F1
• 关键词: Block; copolymers; Ionic; Liquids; Data

This carefully designed training program will transform a talented Fellow, Dr Amit Kumar Sarkar, and provide him the perfect platformto become an independent researcher to develop impactful research to address real world issues. In the digital world that we nowlive, we are creating more and more data exponentially - we are simply running out of storage space. To tackle this challenge, BILDSwill develop an innovative, affordable, and industrially relevant next-generation material technology for data storage applications.Block copolymer-ionic liquid (BCP-IL) composite materials with extremely small (sub-5 nm) domains will be developed for use innanolithography techniques used to fabricate efficient data storage devices with high data storage density (areal density) for existinglarge-scale data centers, thus significantly reducing the need to construct new large-scale facilities. A custom-made rig will beconstructed to facilitate sophisticated in situ grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS) experiments to uncover robustdesign rules for the formation of these new materials - a significant technical advancement that will enable a more seamlesstransition to industry. The specific research objectives (ROs) are: RO1- Training of the Fellow and two-way knowledge transferbetween the Fellow and each Host; RO2 - Synthesis, characterization, and phase separation behavior of novel, industrially relevantBCP-IL pairings; RO3 - Fabricate BCP-IL materials with enhanced nanoscale resolution (sub-5nm) for nanopatterning technology;RO4 - Construct new rig for in situ GISAXS studies to elucidate optimal conditions for nanopatterning. The BILDS consortium ismultidisciplinary & intersectoral, scrupulously assembled to achieve these ambitious ROs: academic hosts from Aston University (UK),Babes-Bolyai University (Romania) and Diamond Light Source (UK), plus industrial advisors from BASF (Germany) and SpecialistComputer Centers (SCC).

这个精心设计的培训计划将改变一位才华横溢的研究员Amit Kumar Sarkar博士，并为他提供一个完美的平台，使他成为一名独立研究人员，开展有影响力的研究，以解决现实世界的问题。在我们现在生活的数字世界里，我们正在以指数方式创造越来越多的数据——我们只是用光了存储空间。为了应对这一挑战，bilds将开发一种创新的、经济实惠的、与工业相关的下一代材料技术，用于数据存储应用。具有极小（亚5纳米）畴的嵌段共聚物-离子液体（BCP-IL）复合材料将被开发用于纳米光刻技术，用于为现有的大型数据中心制造具有高数据存储密度（面密度）的高效数据存储设备，从而显着减少建造新的大型设施的需求。将建造一个定制的平台，以促进复杂的原位掠入射小角度x射线散射（GISAXS）实验，以揭示这些新材料形成的稳健设计规则，这是一项重大的技术进步，将使其更加无缝地过渡到工业。具体的研究目标是：研究目标1-研究员的培训和研究员与各主持人之间的双向知识转移；RO2 -新型工业相关bcp - il配对物的合成、表征和相分离行为；RO3 -制备BCP-IL材料，提高纳米尺度分辨率（低于5nm），用于纳米图像化技术；RO4 -为原位GISAXS研究建立新的平台，以阐明纳米图案的最佳条件。BILDS联盟是多学科和跨部门的，为实现这些雄心勃勃的目标而精心组建的：来自阿斯顿大学（英国）、巴贝斯-博利亚大学（罗马尼亚）和钻石光源（英国）的学术主持人，以及来自巴斯夫（德国）和专家计算机中心（SCC）的工业顾问。