Small items of research equipment at the University of St Andrews. Supporting a new generation of Physical Sciences Research.

一系列小型设备将用于支持和加强早期职业研究人员和EPSRC资助的研究员和博士生的活动：合成光学材料（SOM）和纳米光子学小组正在开发适用于所有领域的材料和设备，这些材料和设备受益于纳米尺度的光物质相互作用的定制控制；例如，超薄柔性超材料（metaflex）嵌入石墨烯层，具有动态可控的光学响应，用于成像和隐身于能源和生物相关应用；基于半导体光放大器和窄纳米结构反射镜的窄线宽激光器，作为节能数据传输和操作的光学互连。催化研究人员正在开发更高效的原子合成和良性条件下的合成，为英国提供一个可持续的未来。此外，作为能源和化学品生产资源的矿物燃料迅速枯竭，今后必须作出改变，以增加生物量的利用。在这种情况下，最丰富的可再生资源是木质纤维素生物质，它比糖、淀粉、油和脂肪等替代原料丰富得多。通过提供改进的变温设备、现代计算机接口和大气控制，各种高质量的设施和研究项目将得到加强，这些设施和研究项目旨在表征诸如新型材料、设备、物质的不同状态、生物材料等。这些设施支持圣安德鲁斯所有的物理科学。化学生物学和健康将开发结合分子生物学、表面科学和工程学的项目，以制造新的设计生物催化剂，并迅速获得用于健康的设计天然产品类似物，并通过结合合成生物学和合成化学作为化学生物学的工具。此外，单分子显微镜技术将应用于阐明分子构象、评估化学反应、实现单分子传感、监测相关动力学、揭示样品异质性和以前所未有的细节检测瞬态物种。数学计算活动将通过提供新的并行计算设施而得到加强。此外，新设备将增强心理学和计算机科学学院的多学科小组开发和测试新的新颖输入和输出设备的能力，以及c)探索如何最好地利用这些输入和输出方式创建、设计和解释内容。

A range of small equipment will be used to support and enhance activities of early career researchers and EPSRC funded fellows and PhD students:Groups in synthetic optical materials (SOM) and nanophotonics are developing materials and devices for all fields that benefit from tailored control of light matter interaction at the nanoscale, eg ultrathin flexible metamaterials (metaflex) embedding graphene layers with dynamically controllable optical response for imaging and cloaking to energy and bio-related applications and narrow linewidth lasers based on semiconductor optical amplifiers and narrow nanostructured mirrors, as optical interconnect for energy efficient data transfer and manipulation. Researchers in catalysis are developing more atom efficient syntheses and syntheses under benign conditions to provide a sustainable future for the UK. Furthermore, the rapid depletion of fossil fuels as a resource for energy and chemicals production necessitates a future change to increase the use of biomass. The most abundant renewable resource in this context is lignocellulosic biomass, which is much more plentiful than the alternative feedstocks such as sugars, starch, oils and fats. A diverse range of high quality facilities and research programs aimed at characterising for example novel materials, devices, different states of matter, biological materials, will be enhanced by the provision of eg improved variable temperature devices, modern computer interfaces and atmospheric control. These facilities support all of the physical sciences in St Andrews.Chemical Biology and Health will develop programs combining molecular biology, surface science and engineering in order to make new designer biocatalysts and expeditious access to designer natural product analogues for health and as tools for chemical biology by combining synthetic biology and synthetic chemistry. Furthermore, single-molecule microscopy techniques will be applied to elucidate molecular conformation, assess chemical reactions, achieve single molecule sensing, monitor relevant kinetics, reveal sample heterogeneity and detect transient species with an unprecedented level of detail.Mathematical computational activity will be enhanced by provision of new parallel computing facilities. In addition the new equipment will enhance the ability of multi-disciplinary groups in the schools of Psychology and Computer Science to develop and test new novel input and output devices, and c) explore how best to create, design and explain content with these input and output modalities.