Dedicated High-throughput 3D-Electron Diffractometer

该提案旨在安装南半球第一台专用的高通量3D电子衍射仪，也是世界上第一台。它将能够快速解决分子和材料的原子级结构，这是现在非常困难和耗时-或不可能-由于无法生长足够大的晶体用于传统的X射线衍射。因此，它将为化学家，物理学家，生物学家，地质学家和工程师提供显着的优势，他们依靠详细的结构知识来合理优化其化合物的性质，从药物活性到碳捕获到超导性，从而使多个国家优先领域受益。

This proposal aims to install the first dedicated high-throughput 3D-electron diffractometer in the Southern Hemisphere, and one of the first in the world. It will be able to rapidly solve the atomic-scale structures of molecules and materials for which this is now extremely difficult and time-consuming – or impossible – due to the inability to grow large enough crystals for traditional X-ray diffraction. It will thus provide a significant advantage for chemists, physicists, biologists, geologists, and engineers who rely on detailed structural knowledge to rationally optimise the properties of their compounds, from pharmaceutical activity to carbon capture to superconductivity, to the substantial benefit of multiple national priority areas.