Critical Replacement of Inoperative NIR-Visible and FT-IR Spectrometers

关键更换失效的近红外可见光和 FT-IR 光谱仪

• 批准号: RTI-2020-00053
• 负责人: Preuss, Kathryn
• 金额: $ 8.84万
• 依托单位: University of Guelph
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=693333
• 关键词: Critical; Replacement; Inoperative; NIR; Visible

We are a diverse team of researchers, including synthetic chemists and engineers, representative of the gender, ethnic, and cultural composition of the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Guelph. We are brought together by our common need for analytical equipment to support our many research endeavours. These endeavours span a wide range of fields, including catalytic conversion of waste biomass into high-value products, development of new food processing technologies, design of molecular materials with quantum computing properties, investigation of new chemical designs with possible medicinal properties, and creation of optical probes for nucleic acid detection. We are united by our common need for a research-grade spectrometer that functions in the infrared (IR), near-IR, and visible region, that allows flexibility of sample and experiment design, and that will give our students a marketable skill.*** The instrument we plan to purchase is designed to replace two old instruments that recently broke and cannot be repaired due to obsolescence. The defunct equipment served us well for 16 and 24 years, and we expect the newly purchased equipment to last a long time and contribute to the training of competitive highly qualified personnel (HQP). Furthermore, we expect the sharing of this equipment to act as a hub, nucleating new collaborative research directions and providing a networking opportunity for our HQP. We expect that increased interaction between HQP from various disciplines will encourage increased awareness of diversity, with domestic and international students from a wide range of ethnic and religious backgrounds working together. *** The research supported by the requested equipment is of value to Canadians in several ways. It will help to decrease our dependence on coal, oil, and gas as starting materials for high-value industrial precursors (e.g., for nylon manufacturing). It will help increase food safety and decrease waste in the food processing sector. Development of new technologies, such as quantum computing, smart materials for safety applications, and DNA-sensors for medical applications will be accelerated. The discovery of unprecedented medicinal compounds will be supported.**

我们是一个多元化的研究团队，包括合成化学家和工程师，代表了圭尔夫大学工程与物理科学学院的性别，种族和文化组成。我们之所以走到一起，是因为我们共同需要分析设备来支持我们的许多研究工作。这些努力涉及广泛的领域，包括将废弃生物质催化转化为高价值产品，开发新的食品加工技术，设计具有量子计算特性的分子材料，研究具有可能药用特性的新化学设计，以及创建用于核酸检测的光学探针。我们对研究级光谱仪的共同需求使我们团结起来，该光谱仪在红外（IR），近红外和可见光区域发挥作用，允许样品和实验设计的灵活性，并将为我们的学生提供市场技能。 我们计划购买的仪器旨在更换两台最近损坏且因过时而无法修复的旧仪器。报废的设备为我们提供了16年和24年的良好服务，我们希望新购买的设备能够持续很长时间，并有助于培养具有竞争力的高素质人才。此外，我们希望共享这些设备可以作为一个中心，形成新的合作研究方向，并为我们的HQP提供网络机会。我们预计，来自不同学科的HQP之间的互动增加将鼓励提高对多样性的认识，来自各种种族和宗教背景的国内和国际学生一起工作。*** 所要求的设备支持的研究在几个方面对加拿大人有价值。它将有助于减少我们对煤炭、石油和天然气的依赖，这些原料是高价值工业前体的起始材料（例如，用于尼龙制造）。这将有助于提高食品安全，减少食品加工部门的浪费。新技术的发展，如量子计算、安全应用的智能材料和医疗应用的DNA传感器将加速。将支持发现前所未有的药用化合物。**