MsRI-EW: Precision Nanoscale Patterning and Characterization – From Cybernetic Proteins to Nanoengineered Quantum Devices

非技术性：一个巨大的挑战在于开发纳米尺度的图案化方法，将纳米电子学与生物系统联合收割机结合起来。传统的图案化技术在组合硬材料和软材料时具有严重的局限性。例如，电子束光刻（EBL）可以产生仅几纳米大小的图案，但需要牺牲抗蚀剂。这些抗蚀剂可能与生物材料不相容，并具有环境和安全问题。冰光刻是一种利用固态冷凝气体代替光刻胶的新型光刻技术。这项技术提供了一条原子级精确制造的途径，以创建纳米光子和纳米电子结构。但是，美国没有这样的基础设施。本次会议将为一个世界上独一无二的高精度设备奠定基础，该设备将冰光刻与原位电子和扫描探针显微镜相结合。技术：这个多学科研讨会的总体目标是汇集来自工程，物理，化学和生物学的科学家和研究人员，以交流高分辨率（低于5 nm）纳米纤维和表征技术的最新创新和趋势。该研讨会将突出量子现象和生物启发材料交叉路口的科学和技术。自然的自组装过程，固有的几类生物启发的材料，导致了一些最有趣的纳米结构。定制这些结构的功能仍然是一个挑战，需要新的工艺用于纳米图案化和纳米织物。该研讨会将为学术界和工业界的研究人员提供一个独特的平台，以展望使用冰光刻技术推进3D纳米制造，增材制造和纳米电子器件的前进道路。此外，该研讨会将作为一个论坛，整合关于功能性纳米材料和器件的合成和纳米级表征的想法，这些功能性纳米材料和器件无缝地连接了凝聚态物质和生物学。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Nontechnical:An enormous challenge lies in developing nanoscale patterning methods to combine nanoelectronics with biological systems. Conventional patterning techniques have severe limitations when combining hard and soft materials. For example, electron beam lithography (EBL) can create patterns only a few nanometers in size, but requires sacrificial resists. These resists can be incompatible with biological materials and have environmental and safety concerns. Ice lithography is a novel technique that uses solid condensed gas instead of resist. This technique offers a path to atomically precise manufacturing to create nanophotonic and nanolectronic structures. There is, however, no such infrastructure in the United States. This conference will lay the foundations for a world-unique high precision facility that combines ice lithography with in-situ electron and scanning probe microscopy.Technical:The overarching goal of this multidisciplinary workshop is to bring together scientists and researchers from engineering, physics, chemistry, and biology in order to exchange ideas in recent innovations and trends in high resolution (below 5 nm) nanofabrication and characterization techniques. The workshop will highlight the science and technology at the cross-roads of quantum phenomena and bio-inspired materials. The natural self-assembly process, inherent to several classes of bio-inspired materials, has resulted in some of the most intriguing nanostructures. Tailoring the functionality of these structures remains a challenge that requires new processes for nanopatterning and nanofabrication. The workshop will provide a unique platform for researchers in academia and industry for envisioning a path forward towards advancing 3D nanofabrication, additive manufacturing, and nano-electronic devices using ice lithography. Additionally, the workshop will serve as a forum for integrating ideas on the synthesis and nanoscale characterization of functional nanomaterials and devices that seamlessly bridge condensed matter and biology. The workshop will lay the foundation for the establishment of future research infrastructure.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.