Platform Grant Support for Materials Characterisation at Oxford

牛津大学材料表征平台资助支持

• 批准号: EP/F048009/1
• 负责人: Angus Kirkland
• 金额: $ 144.53万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FF048009%2F1
• 关键词: Platform; Grant; Support; Materials; Characterisation

The Oxford Materials Characterisation Platform grant will primarily support a number of post-doctoral research associates on a flexible basis thus enhancing and extending our portfolio of responsive mode research proposals. The majority of the proposed platform grant funding will support key staff between fixed term contacts (in the initial instance two posts) that are funded through standard mechanisms. In addition we will also use the platform grant to pump prime a number of new research strategically important interdisiplinary research directions that are not yet sufficiently well developed for standard applications to be made. Specifically we will develop 3D confocal electron microscopy in an aberration corrected environment, advanced nanometrology and high resolution imaging (EM and NanoSIMS) of radiation sensitive soft materials. We will also make appointments to short term research and technical posts (prior to full responsive mode applications) that will support a new He ion microscope on loan and new high performance specimen preparation equipment that provides an underpinning infrastructure to many of our activities.The investigators involved in this application lead internationally recognised teams (with an outsanding publication and support record) in Electron Microscopy, Atom Probe, nanoSIMS and Nanometrology. Within each of these the above lead internationally leading groups working on; a) key materials problems in degradation mechanisms in reactor steels, carbon nanomaterials for Quantum Information Processing (QIP), catalysis, structural ceramics, biomaterials and polymers and magnetic and energy materialsb) the development of new characterisation techniques and instrumentation (High Resolution Imaging and Exit Wave reconstruction, EELS, Electron Nanodiffraction, Analytical EM, NanoSIMS, Detector Development and 3D-Atom Probe. The Materials Department at Oxford, in which the grant will be based is internationally leading and is ranked top in the UK with a 5* rating in the last 2 RAE assessments and the development of materials characterisation is central to the long term strategic direction of the department and University. Thus, overall platform grant support will enable the retention of key, highly skilled research workers through flexible funding arrangements, will initiate several new research directions, will initially support new advanced instruments and will link to our core EM facillity which provides national acess.

牛津材料表征平台基金将在灵活的基础上主要支持一些博士后研究助理，从而加强和扩展我们的响应模式研究提案组合。拟议的平台赠款资金的大部分将支持通过标准机制资助的固定期限联系人之间的关键工作人员（最初是两个职位）。此外，我们还将利用该平台资助一些新的具有战略意义的跨学科研究方向，这些方向尚未充分开发，无法进行标准应用。具体来说，我们将开发在像差校正环境下的三维共聚焦电子显微镜，先进的纳米测量和辐射敏感软材料的高分辨率成像（EM和NanoSIMS）。我们还将任命短期研究和技术职位（在全面响应模式应用之前），这些职位将支持新的借来的He离子显微镜和新的高性能标本制备设备，为我们的许多活动提供基础设施。参与该应用程序的研究人员在电子显微镜，原子探针，纳米sims和纳米计量学方面领导国际公认的团队（具有杰出的出版物和支持记录）。在每一个领域，上述领导的国际领导小组都在开展工作；a)反应器钢、用于量子信息处理（QIP）的碳纳米材料、催化、结构陶瓷、生物材料和聚合物、磁性和能源材料降解机制中的关键材料问题；b)新的表征技术和仪器的发展（高分辨率成像和出口波重建、EELS、电子纳米衍射、分析EM、纳米sims、探测器开发和3d原子探针）。牛津大学材料系是国际领先的，在过去的两次RAE评估中排名英国第一，材料特性的发展是该系和大学长期战略方向的核心。因此，整体平台资助支持将通过灵活的资金安排留住关键的高技能研究人员，将启动几个新的研究方向，将初步支持新的先进仪器，并将连接我们的核心EM设施，提供全国接入。

项目成果

Polystyrene templated porous titania wells for quantum dot heterojunction solar cells.

• DOI: 10.1021/am503558q
• 发表时间: 2014-08
• 期刊: ACS applied materials & interfaces
• 影响因子: 9.5
• 作者: Cheng-En Cheng-Cheng-En-Cheng-4249443;Michael M. Lee;Nakita K. Noel;G. Hughes;J. Ball;H. Assender;H. Snaith;A. Watt

Electron bunch profile reconstruction based on phase-constrained iterative algorithm

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevaccelbeams.19.032801
• 发表时间: 2016-03
• 期刊: Physical review accelerators and beams
• 影响因子: 1.7
• 作者: F. B. Taheri;I. Konoplev;G. Doucas;Peter J. Baddoo;R. Bartolini;J. Cowley;S. Hooker

Temperature dependence of atomic vibrations in mono-layer graphene

• DOI: 10.1063/1.4928324
• 发表时间: 2015-08-21
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Allen, Christopher S.;Liberti, Emanuela;Kirkland, Angus I.
• 通讯作者: Kirkland, Angus I.

Snapshot 3D Electron Imaging of Structural Dynamics.

• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-10654-x
• 发表时间: 2017-09-07
• 期刊: Scientific reports
• 影响因子: 4.6
• 作者: Chen LG;Warner J;Kirkland AI;Chen FR;Van Dyck D
• 通讯作者: Van Dyck D

Photo-induced optical activity in phase-change memory materials.

• DOI: 10.1038/srep08770
• 发表时间: 2015-03-05
• 期刊: Scientific reports
• 影响因子: 4.6
• 作者: Borisenko KB;Shanmugam J;Williams BA;Ewart P;Gholipour B;Hewak DW;Hussain R;Jávorfi T;Siligardi G;Kirkland AI
• 通讯作者: Kirkland AI