A 3D lithography System for Metamaterials, Energy Materials and Biomaterials Engineering and Applications

结构-性质-功能关系在科学和工程研究中发挥着核心作用。微纳米结构的设计、制备和控制对于开发新型超材料、能源材料和生物材料及其在MEMS(微电子机械系统)、电子、能源器件、组织工程和生物医学微器件中的应用具有重要意义。随着微/纳米制造技术的快速发展，研究人员有了前所未有的机会来探索新型结构材料的结构-性能-功能关系的基本原理和应用。我们预见，新兴将是一种新型结构控制精密材料的时代。 所要求的设备是3D光刻微/纳米加工系统，使研究人员能够精确地制造和控制所需的微/纳米结构，这将使许多新的材料和器件功能成为可能。所要求的设备代表着纳米技术领域的重大技术进步，如果得到资助，这将促进加拿大的许多前沿研究活动，并将在材料科学和工程的基础和应用方面产生突破性发现的巨大潜力。所要求的设备将向公众开放，并将为加拿大的下一代机械和材料工程师提供巨大的培训机会。

Structure-property-function relationships play a central role in science and engineering research. Design, fabrication and control of micro/nanostructures are significantly important for developing innovative metamaterials, energy materials and biomaterials, and their applications in MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems), electronics, energy devices, tissue engineering and biomedical microdevices. As micro/nanofabrication technologies advance rapidly, there are unprecedented opportunities for researchers to explore the fundamentals and applications of structure-property-function relationships of novel structured materials. We envision that emerging is an era of a new class of structurally controlled precision materials. The requested equipment, a 3D lithography micro/nanofabrication system, enables researchers to precisely fabricate and control micro/nanostructures to be desired, which will enable many new novel functions of materials and devices. The requested equipment represents a significant technological advancement in the field of nanotechnology, if funded, which will facilitate many leading edge research activities in Canada, and will have great potential in resulting in breakthrough discoveries in fundamentals and applications of materials science and engineering. The requested equipment will be open for public access and will also provide tremendous training opportunities to Canada’s next generation mechanical and materials engineers.