University of York - EPSRC capital award for core equipment 2022/23

约克大学提议通过这项战略投资购买以下核心资本设备：电感耦合等离子体发射光谱仪（ICP-OES）。这些设备将增加大学的研究能力，并支持化学系，物理，工程和技术学院以及生物系的合作研究。该仪器将提供十亿分之一浓度及以上的溶液、分子和材料的关键定量元素组成信息。这将支持多个多学科合作项目，包括询问用于化学合成，催化，金属废物回收（包括电池）和金属纳米颗粒磁性，诊断和治疗的金属络合物和材料。ICP-OES的高灵敏度还支持对需要痕量金属分析（包括金属组学）的系统进行分析和理解。用于X射线衍射（XRD）和反射率（XRR）研究的圆顶热台（Anton帕尔DHS 1100）。所要求的热台将允许将样品原位加热至1100 oC，同时测量XRD和XRR。这种原位热观察能力将提供额外的独特信息，如温度相关的相变，结构参数的热变化，揭示反应动力学，中间相或在较低温度下分解的高温相，所有这些都与工业过程高度相关。它将被用于物理，工程和技术学院和我们的化学系的项目，包括商业自旋电子和磁性器件内的磁性隧道结的分析和太阳能电池材料的分析。该设备不仅将为我们的工程和物理科学（EPS）研究人员增加急需的专用能力，而且还将增强EPS实验要求的特定能力，例如扩展波长检测范围（160-1600 nm），以研究仅在较长波长下显示的节能过程。该仪器将支持我们化学系，物理，工程和技术学院，节能材料中心和York-JEOL Nanocentre的有机，无机，物理和分子材料组的研究人员在液晶，螺旋半导体，自修复3D打印凝胶和“形状转移”聚合物等领域开展项目。

The University of York proposes to purchase the following items of core capital equipment through this strategic investment:An inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES). This equipment will add research capability to the University and support collaborative research across the Department of Chemistry, School of Physics, Engineering and Technology and Department of Biology. This instrument will provide critical quantitative elemental composition information of solutions, molecules and materials at part per billion concentrations and above. This will support a number of multi-disciplinary collaborative projects including interrogating metal complexes and materials used in chemical synthesis, catalysis, metal waste recycling including batteries, and metal nanoparticle magnetism, diagnostics and therapeutics. The high sensitivity of ICP-OES also supports work to characterise and understand systems requiring trace metal analysis including metallomics.A domed hot stage (Anton Paar DHS 1100) for x-ray diffraction (XRD) and reflectivity (XRR) studies. The requested hot stage will allow in-situ heating of samples up to 1100oC whilst simultaneously measuring XRD and XRR. This in-situ thermal observation capability will provide additional unique information such as temperature-dependent phase transformations, thermal changes of structural parameters, unveil reaction kinetics, intermediate phases, or high-temperature phases that decompose at lower temperatures, all of which are highly relevant in industrial processes. It will be used across the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology and our Department of Chemistry in projects including analysis of magnetic tunnel junctions within commercial spintronic and magnetic devices and analysis of materials for solar cells.A multi-parameter circular dichroism spectrophotometer. Not only will this equipment add much needed dedicated capacity for our engineering and physical sciences (EPS) researchers, but it will also have enhanced capability specific to EPS experimental requirements such as an extended wavelength detection range (160-1600 nm) to study energy-efficient processes that are only revealed at longer wavelengths. This instrument will support researchers across Organic, Inorganic, Physical and Molecular Materials groups in our Department of Chemistry, the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, the Centre for Energy Efficient Materials and the York-JEOL Nanocentre with projects in areas such as liquid crystals, helical semiconductors, self-healing 3D printable gels and 'shape-shifting' polymers.