Establishing a Multipurpose Scientific Imaging Facility at Ohio University

美国国家科学基金会要求提供相应的资金支持，以支付大约45%的费用，用于购买仪器，这对俄亥俄大学最先进的科学成像设施的发展至关重要。该设施将设在为此目的新装修的空间内。它将升级和替换老化和过时的光学、透射和扫描电子显微镜设备，并利用新一代数字和视频技术来解决、捕获、存储、处理、传输和打印高质量的科学数据。该设施将被本提案的作者和许多其他高级人员及其研究生研究小组广泛使用，以扩大现有研究计划的参数，并启动只有在这种新兴技术的多样性支持下才有可能开展的新项目。拟建的设施将供俄亥俄大学的研究人员及其合作者使用。我们目前还没有足够的资源和灵活性来满足如此多样化的研究项目的专业要求，而且在俄亥俄大学或俄亥俄州东南部地区的其他地方，目前还没有拟议的设施的综合能力。通过将广泛的生产研究项目的所有成像要求汇集在一个单一的中央实验室，我们将能够建立一个中心，以支持正在进行的研究，开发创新的新研究计划，并为未来几代科学研究人员提供全面的培训。

Matching funds support is requested from the National Science Foundation to defray approximately 45% of the cost to acquire instrumentation that is vital for the development of a state-of-the-art scientific imaging facility at Ohio University. The facility is to be located in space that has been newly renovated for this purpose. It will upgrade and replace aging and obsolete light, transmission-, and scanning electron microscopy equipment, and utilize the newly emerging generation of digital and video technology to resolve, capture, store, process, transmit and print high quality scientific data. The facility will be used extensively by the authors of this proposal, and by numerous additional senior personnel and their graduate research groups to expand the parameters of present research programs and to initiate new projects that are possible only with the support of this multiplicity of newly emerging technologies. The proposed facility will be available to researchers throughout Ohio University and to their collaborators. We currently have no facility with the resources and flexibility to satisfy the specialized requirements of such a diverse array of research programs, and the combined capabilities of the proposed facility are presently not available at Ohio University or elsewhere in the southeastern Ohio region. By bringing together in a single centrally-located laboratory all of the imaging requirements for a broad spectrum of productive research programs, we will be able to establish a center for the support of ongoing research, for the development of innovative new research initiatives, and for the comprehensive training of future generations of scientific researchers.