Additive nanomanufacturing using nanoscale printing

使用纳米级印刷进行增材纳米制造

• 批准号: 1939116
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1939116
• 关键词: Additive; nanomanufacturing; using; nanoscale; printing

Regarding the general direction outlined above, the project will begin by exploring different approaches to combine (i) Electrohydrodynamic-Inkjet Printing, (ii) Scanning Probes and (iii) Nanofluidics, if applicable, to additively pattern on surfaces. One of the approaches we discussed is to utilize probes produced by cytosurge to a) Replicate the success the company has had in patterning liquids and b) to extend this work to both thermally and electrically actuate materials and pattern them in either liquid or evaporated form.Overall, the aims of this project are to come up with a range of manufacturing techniques at the nanoscale that will enable us to have desktop set-ups that can evaporatively print materials additively, as well as easily etch materials without use of a mask in a laboratory setting. The goal is to vastly simplify the nanofabrication process, which currently relies on lithography. Although lithography is a wildly successful process, it is now known that these processes are very environmentally unfriendly (with estimates for a 2 g chip requiring 1.6 kg of fossil fuels to produce by the UN). Therefore, although well suited to mass manufacturing identical components, innovation on smaller batches of components is non-existent for complex nanoscale devices. Our goal is to enable "bespoke" manufacturing of such components with lower batch sizes. This project will contribute towards that goal as part of a larger effort within the research group.It will also train the DPhil student in a range of the high demand skills such as lithography, device design and modeling, characterization at the nanoscale, data analysis and report writing as well as the ability to design and run experiments independently.This is well aligned to EPSRC's strategy of "Make it local, make it > bespoke". It also has the capability to let small design houses that UK has to really test prototype devices and retain more value through the value chain. Potential collaborators as part of the larger EPSRC Fellowship held by H. Bhaskaran include IBM, Oxford Instruments, MSolv, Bodle Technologies and BASF, but also much larger consortiums under other EPSRC funded projects such as the Wearable and Flexible Technologies Consortium (WAFT, www.waftcollaboration.org). This research is aligned to EPSRC's Manufacturing the future theme, as well as the Engineering and Physical Sciences remits. With a background in engineering, the projects fits very well to the skills of the student, who has the opportunity to contribute in a uniquely creative manner towards this exciting research area.EPSRC's research areas:EngineeringInformation and communication technologies (ICT)Manufacturing the futurePhysical sciencesResearch infrastructure

根据上述概述的总体方向，该项目将开始探索不同的方法来结合(i)电流体动力喷墨打印，（ii）扫描探针和（iii）纳米流体，如果适用的话，在表面上添加图案。我们讨论的方法之一是利用cytosurge生产的探针来a)复制该公司在液体图案化方面取得的成功，b)将这项工作扩展到热致和电致致材料，并以液体或蒸发形式对其进行图案化。总的来说，这个项目的目标是提出一系列纳米级的制造技术，这将使我们拥有可以蒸发打印材料的桌面设备，以及在实验室环境中无需使用掩模即可轻松蚀刻材料。其目标是大大简化目前依赖光刻技术的纳米制造过程。虽然光刻技术是一种非常成功的工艺，但现在人们知道，这种工艺对环境非常不友好（据联合国估计，生产一个2克的芯片需要1.6公斤的化石燃料）。因此，尽管非常适合大规模生产相同的组件，但对于复杂的纳米级设备来说，小批量组件的创新是不存在的。我们的目标是实现“定制”制造这样的组件与较小的批量生产。这个项目将作为研究小组更大努力的一部分，为实现这一目标作出贡献。它还将培养哲学博士学生一系列高要求的技能，如光刻、设备设计和建模、纳米级表征、数据分析和报告写作，以及独立设计和运行实验的能力。这与EPSRC的“本地化，定制化”战略是一致的。它也有能力让英国的小型设计公司真正测试原型设备，并通过价值链保留更多价值。H. Bhaskaran持有的EPSRC奖学金的潜在合作者包括IBM、牛津仪器、MSolv、Bodle Technologies和巴斯夫，以及其他EPSRC资助项目下的更大的联盟，如可穿戴和柔性技术联盟（WAFT, www.waftcollaboration.org）。这项研究与EPSRC的“制造未来”主题以及工程和物理科学主题相一致。具有工程背景，项目非常适合学生的技能，他们有机会以独特的创造性方式为这个令人兴奋的研究领域做出贡献。EPSRC的研究领域：工程、信息和通信技术（ICT）、未来制造、物理科学、研究基础设施