EPSRC Core Equipment Award 2022 - A multi-user XRD facility for Advanced Materials research

2022 年 EPSRC 核心设备奖 - 用于先进材料研究的多用户 XRD 设备

• 批准号: EP/X035220/1
• 负责人: Neil Berry
• 金额: $ 111.31万
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 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%2FX035220%2F1
• 关键词: EPSRC; Core; Equipment; Award; 2022

The primary objective of the proposed equipment is to provide rapid and regular access to powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) - a fundamental solid-state characterisation technique - to a diverse user base of research teams across the University of Liverpool (UoL). PXRD is a core analysis method used to characterise the structure of materials in the solid state. It is used by teams working across materials research that addresses EPSRC strategic themes including Advanced Materials, Manufacturing the Future, Energy, Healthcare Technologies and Circular Economy.UoL will use this capital funding to establish a PXRD Shared Research Facility (SRF) in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Shared research equipment is critical to the development of Early Career Researchers, as they typically have access to less capital funding than established PIs. By integrating the proposed PXRD equipment into UoL's SRF scheme, UoL researchers will be able to access a high quality core characterisation technique on a free-at-the-point-of-access basis which will help to accelerate the development of ECR research.Rapid access to this fundamental technique will benefit researchers across at least four UoL departments, facilitating the discovery and manufacture of new materials by researchers in Engineering, Chemistry and Physics, and enabling the analysis of artefacts and ancient materials by researchers in Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology. The diversity of the proposed equipment's user community will generate exciting opportunities for interdisciplinary research, a culture of knowledge and equipment sharing.The new Shared Research Facility will also create opportunities to enhance the training of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, to better equip them with skills relevant for materials research in academia and industry.

拟议设备的主要目的是为利物浦大学（UOL）的多样化的研究团队的多样化用户群提供快速，定期获得粉末X射线衍射（PXRD）（PXRD）（PXRD）。 PXRD是一种用于表征固态材料结构的核心分析方法。它是由跨材料研究的团队使用的，该研究涉及EPSRC战略主题，包括高级材料，制造未来，能源，医疗保健技术和循环经济。共享的研究设备对于早期职业研究人员的发展至关重要，因为他们通常比既定的PI都能获得资本资金少。通过将拟议的PXRD设备集成到UOL的SRF计划中，UOL研究人员将能够以自由访问的基础自由地访问高质量的核心特征技术，这将有助于加速ECR研究的发展。依次访问该基本技术，将使至少在四个UOL部门进行化材料的研究人员，从而使新材料和制造业的建造者在化合物中受益，从而使新的材料和制造商对新材料进行，从而使新的材料和制造商在建造方面，以使自己的建造者兼容，从而使新的材料和制造商在建造中，以使其构成新的材料，并将其设置为制造业，以促进新材料，并使其在建造方面，以辅助研究，并在建立该材料，并将其设置为新的材料。考古，经典和埃及学研究人员对人工制品和古老的材料进行分析。拟议设备的用户社区的多样性将为跨学科研究，知识和设备共享文化带来令人兴奋的机会。新的共享研究机构还将创造机会，以增强博士和博士后研究人员的培训，以更好地为他们提供与学术界和行业中材料研究相关的技能。