Global - Promoting Research Partnerships: Strathclyde Escalator for Global Engagements in Research

斯特拉斯克莱德大学正在发展其作为国际领先技术大学的声誉，并在光子学，电力和能源，先进工程和制造以及生物纳米技术领域展示了优势。在这些主题中，美国和远东各机构的国际合作伙伴已被确定为跨多个主题的长期战略合作伙伴。为了发展这些并实现我们雄心勃勃的目标，我们提出了全球参与研究自动扶梯框架。这是以国际团体与和平大学之间的现有联系为基础，并规划逐步升级的活动。光子学主题侧重于氮化镓可见光发光二极管技术在微系统中的应用，通过先进的生物医学仪器和光通信的国际合作。它在一个统一的技术平台下为固态照明带来了两个巨大的机会：一个是用于移动的通信的高带宽数据通信接口，另一个是通过神经元的光刺激控制生物体行为的接口。在电力和能源主题中，将设立一个智能电网国际研究方案。这与一个具有国际重要性的领域产生了共鸣。为了实现英国和全球可再生能源低碳经济的目标，电力系统必须彻底改变。新的信息和通信技术必须联合收割机与电力系统运行和控制的进步相结合，以适应电动汽车、新能源服务和各种可再生发电技术。我们的目标是通过将国际专家和智能电网测试设施联系起来，在所有这些领域取得新的进展。先进工程和制造业主题支持社会在健康，交通，能源和气候方面的重大挑战。微纳尺度的流体系统工程将在应对这些挑战方面发挥重要作用;例如，纳米过滤海水，使其可供缺水人群饮用，并将微纳和纳米设备嵌入飞机和船舶表面，以提高燃油效率并减少二氧化碳排放。与该领域最优秀的国际研究人员合作，我们的目标是提供用于模拟多尺度流的全面新技术，并在包括下一代光刻技术在内的战略工程重大挑战中展示它们。在这一主题中，EPSRC连续制造和结晶中心关注的是在开发新型连续制造技术方面建立新的合作，以提高对颗粒形成的理解，并利用这些知识来增强具有特定有益特性的颗粒的制造。鉴于颗粒处理在许多精细化工行业（包括农用化学品、制药、染料、颜料和含能材料）中的重要性，这具有巨大的潜力。与国际专家的拟议联系将加快进展，提高英国研究的知名度，并最终增加高质量合作研究成果的机会。生物纳米技术主题推动基于生物相互作用的纳米结构的发明，操纵和开发，重点是医疗保健应用，最显着的是诊断，再生医学和通过递送或靶向阐明来改进药物。通过专注于对这些过程和系统的分子控制，并将物理和生命科学领域的领先研究人员与工程和健康相关学科的研究人员联系起来，目的是产生世界领先的研究成果，并在生物传感器，功能材料和自组装纳米结构等领域应用。

The University of Strathclyde is developing its reputation as a leading international technological university and demonstrates strengths in the areas of Photonics, Power and Energy, Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing, and Bionanotechnology. Within these themes international partners at various institutions in the USA and the Far East have been identified for longer term strategic engagements across multiple themes. To develop these and realise our ambitious targets the Global Engagements in Research Escalator framework has been proposed. This builds on existing linkages between international groups and the University and maps out the escalation activities. The Photonics theme focuses on the application of gallium nitride visible light emitting diode technology in microsystems through international collaborations on advanced biomedical instrumentation and optical communications. It brings together under a unified technology platform two tremendous opportunities for solid state lighting: a high-bandwidth data communications interface for mobile communications and an interface for control of behaviour in organisms via optical stimulation of neurons. In the Power and Energy theme an international research programme in smart grids will be created. This resonates with an area of international importance. In order to deliver the UK and global targets for a low carbon economy with renewable energy, the electric power system must change radically. New information and communication technologies must combine with advances in power system operation and control to accommodate electric vehicles, new energy services and a variety of renewable generation technologies. Our aim is to make novel advances in all of these areas by linking international experts and smart grid test facilities. The Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing theme underpins society's major challenges in health, transportation, energy and climate. The engineering of flow systems on the micro and nano scales will play an important role in meeting these challenges; for example, nano-filtering seawater to make it drinkable for water-stressed populations, and embedding micro and nano devices in aeroplane and ship surfaces to improve fuel efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions. Partnering with the best international researchers in the field, our aim is to deliver comprehensive new techniques for simulating multi-scale flows, and demonstrate them on strategic engineering grand challenges including next-generation lithography. Within this theme the EPSRC Centre for Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation is concerned with establishing new collaborations on the development of novel continuous manufacturing technologies to improve understanding of particle formation and exploit this knowledge to enhance manufacture of particles with specific beneficial properties. This has significant potential given the importance of particulate processing across many fine chemical industries including agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, dyes, pigments and energetic materials. The proposed links with international experts will lead to accelerated progress, raised profile of UK-based research and ultimately enhance the opportunities for high quality, collaborative research outcomes. The Bionanotechnology theme drives invention, manipulation and exploitation of nanoscale structures based on biological interactions with an emphasis on healthcare applications, most notably diagnostics, regenerative medicine and improvements to drugs either by delivery or target elucidation. By focusing on the molecular control over such processes and systems and linking leading researchers in the physical and life sciences with those in engineering and health related disciplines, the aim is to produce world leading research with applications in areas such as biosensors, functional materials and self-assembled nanostructures.