Atomic Microscopy for Geochemistry

该奖项提供60%的资金用于收购一个 结合原子力和扫描隧道显微镜系统， 将在贝克曼材料研究所安装和运行 加州理工学院资源中心。资金 美国国家科学基金会将平均分配给 化学系和地球科学系。加州理工致力于 提供所需的剩余40%资金。 显微镜系统将能够成像表面 在单个原子的分辨率下测量材料的形貌。它 将应用于加州理工学院的大量研究项目中 表面分析至关重要;例如， 在固-液界面处的含水物质。

This award provides 60% funding for the acquisition of a combined atomic force and scanning tunneling microscope system that will be installed and operated in the Beckman Institute Materials Resource Center at the California Institute of Technology. Funding from the National Science Foundation will be shared equally between the divisions of Chemistry and Earth Sciences. Caltech is committed to providing the remaining 40% funding required. The microscope system will be capable of imaging surface topography of materials at the resolution of individual atoms. It will be applied in a large number of research projects at Caltech where surface analysis is critical; for example the interaction of aqueous species at solid-liquid interfaces.