Rapid Nanoscale Quality Assurance for Net Zero Manufacturing

我们（Bristol Nano Dynamics， BND）是一家科学仪器制造商，专门为研究纳米科学或创造纳米技术的学术研究人员定制高倍率显微镜。我们开发了一种基于英国的独特技术，可以将显微镜的帧速率提高1000倍。这种动态扫描探针显微镜（D-SPM）提供了纳米结构和纳米缺陷的大面积纳米尺度映射，具有从小规模销售到学术机构到大型高增长行业（如2D材料制造，半导体器件甚至电池技术）的潜力。我们知道这种潜力是存在的，因为我们的学术合作伙伴关系已经创造了令人信服的数据，表明我们可以提供行业所需的高样品吞吐量。但是，最重要的是，我们知道我们可以帮助他们解决电池技术中一些最关键的安全和寿命问题——因为与他们目前使用的显微镜不同，我们的显微镜可以在电池故障发生时，现场观察和测量电池故障机制的纳米级起源，比如树晶形成（导致三星Galaxy Note 7召回53亿美元）。在这个项目中，我们将与一个设计行业的专业人士合作，他有为工业和大型企业设计工作流程、服务和系统的经验。他们将帮助德国联邦情报局获得对潜在客户的战略性了解。对于这个项目，我们将重点关注与我们现有的学术客户相邻领域的公司。特别是那些致力于实现净零目标的人，例如利用纳米技术开发新的电池技术和二维材料，以提高产品效率和可持续性。这种方法将加深我们对客户业务、他们的用户、需求和痛点的理解，因此我们可以构建利用我们的核心技术来满足他们的测量需求的解决方案，最重要的是：提供一个无缝集成到他们现有的分析、维护和培训工作流中的解决方案。至关重要的是，我们还将启动一个致力于可用性和自动化分析的工作流程。在速度、样本量或分辨率方面，没有任何其他SPM能做到我们所能做到的。没有其他SPM可以提供我们所能提供的自动化水平。但是，我们需要这个项目来支持我们未来的路线图，并将这项技术带到净零排放行业。

We (Bristol Nano Dynamics, BND) are a scientific instrument manufacturer specialising in bespoke high-magnification microscopes for academic researchers studying nanoscience or creating nanotechnology.We have developed a unique UK-based technology that offers a thousand-fold increase in the frame rate of the microscope. This Dynamic Scanning Probe Microscope (D-SPM) offers large-area nanoscale mapping of nanostructures and nanodefects and has the potential to jump from small scale sales to academic institutions to large high-growth industries such as 2D materials manufacture, semiconductor devices and even battery technologies. We know that this potential exists because our academic partnerships have created compelling data showing we can provide the high sample throughput needed by industry. But, most importantly, we know we can help them solve some of the most critical safety and longevity questions in battery technology - because unlike their current microscopes, ours can observe and measure the nanoscale origins of battery failure mechanisms, like dendrite formation (responsible for the $5.3 billion recall of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7) in-situ, while they happen.In this project, we will partner with a design industry professional who has experience designing workflows, services and systems for industry and large enterprise. They will support BND in gaining a strategic understanding of potential customers. For this project, we will focus on companies in fields adjacent to our existing academic customers. Specifically those working towards Net Zero goals, e.g. using nanotechnology to develop new battery technologies and 2D materials for improved product efficiency and sustainability.This approach will deepen our understanding of customer businesses, their users, needs, and pain points, so we can construct solutions that exploit our core technology to meet their measurement needs and most importantly: provide a solution that seamlessly integrates into their existing workflows for analysis, maintenance, and training.Crucially, we will also spin-up a workstream dedicated to usability and automated analysis. No other SPM anywhere can do what we can, at the speed, sample size or resolution. No other SPM can offer the level of automation we can either. But, we need this project to support our future road-map and bring this technology to Net Zero industries.