MRI: Acquisition of Xray Diffraction System for Interdisciplinay Materials Research and Education

该奖项来自拉马尔大学主要研究仪器项目，支持多功能x射线衍射系统的采购，以支持拉马尔大学的跨学科材料研究和教育活动，以及拉马尔大学在其他大学和行业的研究和教育合作者。该系统将提供以下先进的材料表征能力：粉末衍射、粒度测定、应变分析、织构、相识别、定量相组成、晶格参数测定、非晶成分表征和薄层分析。这些能力将用于支持以下领域的研究：环境科学与工程、聚合物、纳米结构材料、结构薄膜、高科技合金、超导和磁性材料、地质和古生物材料。这项研究将涉及19名高级人员和众多研究生和本科生，他们分别来自拉马尔大学、Prairie View a&m大学、德克萨斯a&m大学、墨西哥萨尔提略技术研究所以及钢铁和采矿业。该项目将促进区域和国际研究合作，并将使许多研究和教育项目获得高质量的x射线衍射。通过这项来自主要研究仪器项目的奖励，拉马尔大学将获得一个高质量的x射线衍射系统，以支持拉马尔大学的跨学科材料研究和教育活动，以及与其他大学和行业的研究合作活动。该系统将提供先进的能力，在广泛的研究和教育项目中表征物理和化学结构现象，包括环境样品、纳米科学和工程、薄膜、高科技合金、先进电子和磁性样品以及地质材料。它涉及到几所大学（拉马尔大学、Prairie View a&m大学、德克萨斯州a&m大学和墨西哥萨尔提略理工学院）。19名高级人员和众多研究生和本科生将获得高质量的研究系统，这将促进区域和国际合作。

This award from the Major Research Instrumentation Program for Lamar University supports the acquisition of a multifunctional x-ray diffraction system to support interdisciplinary materials research and educational activities at Lamar University and Lamar's research and educational collaborators in other universities and industry. This system will supply the following advanced materials characterization capabilities: powder diffraction, particle sizing, strain analysis, texture, phase identification, quantitative phase composition, lattice parameter determination, amorphous component characterization, and thin layer analysis. These capabilities will be used to support research in the following areas: environmental science and engineering, polymers, nano-structured materials, structured thin films, high technology alloys, superconducting and magnetic materials, and geological and paleontological materials. The research will involve 19 senior personnel and numerous graduate and undergraduate students from Lamar University, Prairie View A&M University, Texas A&M University, and the Technological Institute of Saltillo, Mexico, as well as the steel and mining industries. The project will promote regional and international research collaboration and will give numerous research and educational projects access to high quality x-ray diffraction.With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation Program, Lamar University will acquire a high quality x-ray diffraction system to support interdisciplinary materials research and educational activities at Lamar University and research collaboration activities with other universities and industry. The system will provide advanced capabilities to characterize physical and chemical structural phenomena in a wide range of research and educational projects involving environmental samples, nanoscience and engineering, thin films, high technology alloys, advanced electronic and magnetic samples and geological materials. It involves several universities (Lamar, Prairie View A&M University, Texas A&M and the Technological Institute of Saltillo, Mexico). Nineteen senior personnel and numerous graduate and undergraduate students will be given access to a high quality research system that will promote regional and international collaboration.