Operations and Maintenance Support: Montréal Centre for Structural Analysis by X-Ray Diffraction

运营和维护支持：蒙特利尔 X 射线衍射结构分析中心

• 批准号: RTI-2017-00526
• 负责人: Wuest, James
• 金额: $ 8.89万
• 依托单位: Université de Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=616699
• 关键词: Operations; Maintenance; Support; Montr; al

The interaction of X-rays with matter allows its underlying structure to be probed in atomic detail. X-ray diffraction (XRD) has been an indispensable tool for structural analysis since its discovery a century ago, and it is used intensively in all areas of science, engineering, and medicine where progress requires a deep understanding of the relationship between structure and properties. XRD thereby improves human welfare in many ways, such as by leading to the creation of improved materials, better drugs, greener chemical processes, and a fuller understanding of the role and behavior of complex structures of biological origin. For these reasons, the Université de Montréal has made excellence in XRD a top priority and has maintained a position of international leadership in the field for over 40 years. Sustained effort during this period has yielded the following notable results: (1) Creating the Montreal Centre for Structural Analysis by X-Ray Diffraction, which provides a world-class set of seven modern diffractometers that can be used to perform virtually any XRD experiment not requiring synchrotron radiation; (2) installing the world's first commercial metal-jet instrument; (3) attracting and retaining a talented staff of three XRD experts with a combined experience of over 70 years in maintaining equipment, analyzing structures, and training new researchers; (4) teaching XRD to hundreds of students and producing new generations of experts in the field, who hold positions as university professors, synchrotron beamline scientists, and managers of major XRD facilities throughout the world; (5) providing an open-access facility that makes its equipment and expertise readily available to academic and industrial researchers throughout Canada and abroad; and (6) serving over 70 talented scientists from multiple universities and industrial research centres in the last five years, who need access to state-of-the-art XRD facilities to maintain international leadership in their fields. Acquisition of the Centre's current diffractometers has been funded largely by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, with supplementary contributions from the Government of Québec and industry, and partial financial support for operating the Centre has been provided by in a balanced way by the UdeM, users, and other sources such as NanoQuébec and the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Nature et technologies. Collectively, the staff, instrumentation, and users of the XRD Centre constitute a unique Canadian resource of international importance. Support from NSERC is urgently needed to compensate for shortfalls in funding from other sources and to ensure that the Centre can retain its staff, maintain its equipment properly, and continue to provide open access to academic and industrial researchers throughout Canada.

X射线与物质的相互作用使其底层结构能够以原子细节进行探测。X射线衍射（XRD）自世纪前被发现以来，一直是结构分析不可或缺的工具，它被广泛应用于科学、工程和医学的所有领域，这些领域的进步需要深入了解结构与性能之间的关系。因此，XRD在许多方面改善了人类的福祉，例如通过创建改进的材料，更好的药物，更绿色的化学过程，以及更全面地了解生物起源的复杂结构的作用和行为。出于这些原因，蒙特利尔大学将卓越的XRD作为首要任务，并在该领域保持了40多年的国际领导地位。这一期间的持续努力取得了以下显著成果：（1）建立了蒙特利尔X射线衍射结构分析中心，该中心提供了一套世界一流的七台现代衍射仪，可用于进行几乎任何不需要同步辐射的X射线衍射实验;（2）安装了世界上第一台商用金属喷射仪器;（3）吸引和留住三名XRD专家，他们在维护设备、分析结构和培训新研究人员方面拥有70多年的经验;（4）向数百名学生教授XRD，并培养该领域的新一代专家，他们担任大学教授，同步加速器光束线科学家，（5）提供一个开放的设施，使其设备和专业知识随时提供给加拿大和国外的学术和工业研究人员;及（6）在过去五年内，为来自多间大学及工业研究中心的70多名优秀科学家提供服务，他们需要使用最先进的XRD设备来保持其领域的国际领先地位。该中心现有衍射仪的购置主要由加拿大创新基金会提供资金，魁北克政府和工业界也提供了补充捐款，并由UdeM、用户和其他来源（如NanoQuébec和魁北克自然与技术研究基金会）以平衡的方式为中心的运营提供了部分财政支持。XRD中心的工作人员、仪器和用户共同构成了具有国际重要性的加拿大独特资源。迫切需要NSERC的支持，以弥补其他来源的资金短缺，并确保该中心能够留住其工作人员，妥善维护其设备，并继续向加拿大各地的学术和工业研究人员提供开放访问。