Basic Technology Nanorobotics : Transfer to applications, new science and industry

纳米材料的独特性质不能通过外推块状材料的性质来确定。在纳米科学的许多领域，由于缺乏合适的仪器和测试方法，不知道材料的实时行为，限制了新材料、结构和器件的发展。基础技术纳米机器人计划成功地开发了新的仪器，可以在电子显微镜内实时检查纳米结构的3D结构、机械、电气和表面属性。基础技术翻译补助金将为这项技术向工业领域的转化提供支持。通过应用这些技术，英国工业界和学术界将拥有独特的世界领先能力，以确定他们纳米对象的功能、可靠性、故障模式和寿命，从而使他们能够更有效地设计他们的纳米结构材料和设备。该技术转化为工业的主要跨学科应用将包括确定纳米颗粒的实时相互作用、纳米结构表面和涂层的动态纳米摩擦学、包括MEMS/NEMS部件在内的纳米结构的失效、生物医学材料的纳米级功能和失效以及新的纳米焊接方法。翻译补助金将用于解决现有的工业问题(展示技术能力)，以及在纳米技术研究的前沿进行短期高风险探索性调查，以支持未来的研究计划。翻译资助金将确保英国的工业基地将从基本技术资助金中获得最大的技术发展优势。此外，它还将确保培训这一领域的下一代英国研究人员，并加强与英国和全球公司和研究人员的联系，以确保英国在这一领域处于领先地位。

The unique properties of nanoscale materials cannot by determined by extrapolating the properties of bulk materials. In many areas of nanoscience, the developments of new materials, structures and devices are restricted by not knowing how the materials behave in real-time due to a lack of suitable instrumentation and test methods. The Basic Technology Nanorobotics programme has successfully developed new instrumentation to examine the 3D structural, mechanical, electrical and surface properties of nanostructures in real-time inside electron microscopes. The Basic Technology translation grant will underpin the translation of this technology into the industrial sphere. Through applying the techniques, unique world-leading capability will be available to UK industry and academia to determine their nanoobjects' functionality, reliability, failure modes and lifetime, and thus enable more effective engineering of their nanostructured materials and devices. Key interdisciplinary applications to be targeted by the translation of the technology to industry will include determining the real-time interaction of nanoparticles, dynamical nanotribology of nanostructured surfaces and coatings, failure of nanostructures including MEMS/NEMS components, nanoscale functionality and failure of biomedical materials and novel nanowelding methods. The translation grant will be used both to address existing industrial problems (demonstrating the technology capability), and also to carry out short-term high-risk exploratory investigations at the cutting edge of nanotechnology research to underpin future research programmes. The translation grant will ensure that the UKs industrial base will gain maximum advantage of the technological developments arising out of the Basic Technology grant. Furthermore it will ensure the training of the next generation of UK-based researchers in this field, and enhance links with UK and global companies and researchers to ensure a UK lead in this area.