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DICE: Driving Innovation in Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Research in the UK

DICE：推动化学创新

基本信息

批准号：
EP/D501229/1
负责人：
Martyn Poliakoff
金额：
$ 443.17万
依托单位：
University of Nottingham
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2006
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2006 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FD501229%2F1
关键词：
DICE Driving Innovation Chemistry Chemical

项目摘要

Historically, chemistry and chemical engineering have been divided in UK universities, and this division is becoming increasingly serious. There needs to be a symbiotic relationship between the two disciplines and chemistry-based industry in the UK because the health of industry and academia are mutually dependent. The chemical industry is a major contributor to the UK economy but it faces unprecedented pressures (for example from global competition) which can only be countered by rapid and sustained innovation. However UK chemistry and chemical engineering departments simply do not currently have the interdisciplinary capacity to underpin this demand for innovation. Current progress is too slow and the UK lags way behind many countries, particularly USA, the Netherlands, Germany and Japan. DICE is a joint proposal from chemists and engineers which seizes the unique opportunity presented by the Science & Innovation Call to create a completely new research environment with the potential to catapult the UK to the forefront of this field. DICE will immediately deliver 6 new young lecturers with the support needed to launch research at the Chem./Chem. Eng. interface. Over 5 years, DICE will reshape the whole academic supply-chain (from undergraduate to postdoctoral) to provide a stream of researchers to sustain the continuous UK expansion of academic and industrial innovation at this interface. DICE will deliver new science and new technology, bringing engineering into areas where it is underexploited. Our programme pulls new ideas and techniques into the UK from across the world to strengthen and re-invigorate the UK research base. DICE builds on internationally acclaimed research successes at Nottingham which cut right across the Chem./Chem. Eng. divide. The nucleus is a group of chemists and chemical engineers whose work spans pure and applied research and links academia with industry. The. group has achieved on a small-scale what must be achieved nationally in this area. DICE builds on and expands their approach to create a Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Partnership, with a range of skills unique on a world scale, capable of making a substantial impact on UK science. DICE will drive the dissemination of ideas to universities and industry across the UK. Our Proposal involves several radically new initiatives(I) Flexi-Chairs: a completely new type of post to enable internationally-leading chemical engineers with a track-record at the Chem./Chem. Eng. interface to make extended visits to the UK to inject ideas and best practice from overseas. The Flexi-Chairs will be given postdoctoral support to initiate new, cutting-edge research in the UK; researchers from the USA, Japan & EU have already expressed great interest in the Flexi-Chairs. (ii) New research initiatives with high potential, including catalysis/biocatalysis, reaction chemistry, polymer synthesis and processing, instrumentation/process monitoring, photonics/devices, multi-scale modelling and education. (iii) Placement of Outreach Postdoctoral Researchers in leading chemical engineering departments at Birmingham, Imperial College, Newcastle and Sheffield, creating new partnerships to seed new research at the Chem./Chem. Eng. interface, and to train young researchers as candidates for the new generation of academics in this area. Each PDRA will work with a PhD student funded by the university hosting the placement. (iv) Flexible secondments to bring in key UK and EU industrial researchers to academia for both inward and outward knowledge transfer and to help the new staff in establishing their own industrial links.The University of Nottingham supports DICE very strongly and will commit more than 1M to fund two extra lectureships, additional Flexi-chairs, two technicians and a business development officer, all dedicated to this Project. In addition, the University will fund and provide dedicated flagship space to incubate the new research.

从历史上看，英国大学的化学和化学工程一直是分开的，而且这种分开越来越严重。在英国，这两个学科和以化学为基础的工业之间需要一种共生关系，因为工业和学术界的健康是相互依赖的。化学工业是英国经济的主要贡献者，但它面临着前所未有的压力（例如来自全球竞争），这些压力只能通过快速和持续的创新来应对。然而，英国化学和化学工程部门目前根本没有跨学科的能力来支持这种创新需求。目前的进展太慢，英国远远落后于许多国家，尤其是美国、荷兰、德国和日本。DICE是化学家和工程师的联合提议，它抓住了科学与创新呼吁提供的独特机会，创造了一个全新的研究环境，有可能将英国推向该领域的前沿。DICE将立即提供6名新的年轻讲师，并提供启动化学/化学研究所需的支持。Eng。接口。在5年的时间里，DICE将重塑整个学术供应链（从本科生到博士后），为英国在这一界面上的学术和工业创新提供源源不断的研究人员。DICE将提供新的科学和新技术，将工程引入尚未开发的领域。我们的项目将来自世界各地的新思想和新技术引入英国，以加强和重振英国的研究基础。DICE建立在诺丁汉国际知名的研究成功的基础上，这些研究成功贯穿了化学/化学。Eng。鸿沟。核心是一群化学家和化学工程师，他们的工作涵盖纯研究和应用研究，并将学术界与工业界联系起来。的。集团以小规模的方式实现了在这一领域必须在全国范围内实现的目标。DICE建立并扩展了他们的方法，以创建化学/化学工程合作伙伴关系，拥有一系列世界范围内独特的技能，能够对英国科学产生重大影响。DICE将推动思想传播到英国各地的大学和行业。我们的提案涉及几个全新的举措(1)柔性椅子：一个全新的职位类型，使国际领先的化学工程师能够在化学/化学领域取得成功。Eng。有机会对英国进行长期访问，以注入海外的想法和最佳实践。柔性椅将获得博士后支持，在英国开展新的前沿研究；来自美国、日本和欧盟的研究人员已经对这种柔性椅表达了极大的兴趣。（ii）具有高潜力的新研究计划，包括催化/生物催化、反应化学、聚合物合成和加工、仪器/过程监测、光子学/设备、多尺度建模和教育。（iii）在伯明翰大学、帝国理工学院、纽卡斯尔大学和谢菲尔德大学的主要化学工程系安置外展博士后研究人员，建立新的合作伙伴关系，为化学/化学工程学院的新研究提供种子。Eng。界面，并培养年轻的研究人员作为该领域新一代学者的候选人。每个PDRA将与一名由主办实习的大学资助的博士生一起工作。（iv）灵活借调，将英国和欧盟的重要工业研究人员引入学术界，向内和向外转移知识，并帮助新员工建立自己的工业联系。诺丁汉大学非常支持DICE，并将投入100多万美元资助两个额外的讲师，额外的柔性椅子，两名技术人员和一名业务发展官员，所有这些都致力于这个项目。此外，大学将资助并提供专门的旗舰空间来孵化新的研究。