SMALL ITEMS OF RESEARCH EQUIPMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

这项申请的重点是支持20多名年轻的早期职业研究工作者(ECR)在能源、催化、制造技术和医疗技术四个跨学科领域的研究活动。这些研究主题是根据大学现有的同类研究优势、这些领域在满足未来社会需求方面存在的挑战、它们在世界级研究和解决未来国家重要性问题方面的潜力而选择用于投资新的研究人员的。这些研究主题中的每一个都有与EPSRC研究领域相关的积极研究方案。这些基金将支持GB 10k以下的小型设备，用于由这些ECR领导的研究计划，增强这些小组的研究能力，使新的研究线索成为可能，并与利物浦和更广泛的英国学术界的其他研究小组进行合作。这些主题将支持的领域包括：可再生能源中的能源问题，能源需求和核电的减少，新能源材料的进展，包括电池和光伏，核能的环境问题和材料建模。催化-催化和光催化材料和工艺的基础，新材料的开发及其应用，特别是特定材料的先进制造，开发更清洁、更安全和更便宜的现有技术路线，以及开发用于生物燃料和其他能源应用的新催化剂。制造技术-通过支持在高价值制造中广泛应用的新技术平台，为制造业开发技术，从工程学的优势发展精确控制和数据处理能力，以建立平台本身并展示如何将其应用于工业重要问题。医疗技术-通过装备物理和生命科学、工程和医学的跨学科合作来检查软组织和硬组织生物力学、生物材料和图像处理，支持生物医学工程作为一个快速增长的研究领域，从而导致新医疗设备的开发。

The focus for this application is to support the research activity of more than 20 young early career research workers (ECRs) in the four cross-disciplinary fields of Energy, Catalysis, Manufacturing Technologies and Healthcare Technologies. These research themes were chosen for investment in new research staff on the basis of the University's existing cognate research strengths, the challenges that exist in these areas in terms of meeting future societal needs, their potential for world class research and for addressing issues of future national importance. Each of these research themes have active research programmes related to EPSRC research areas. The funds will support small items of equipment under £10k for research programmes led by these ECRs, enhacing the research capabilities of these groups, enabling new strands of research and collaborations with other research groups both at Liverpool and in the wider UK academic community. Areas that will be supported within these themes include:Energy - problems in renewable energy, reduction in energy demand and nuclear power, advances in new energy materials, including batteries and photovoltaics, environmental aspects of nuclear energy and materials modelling.Catalysis -fundamentals of catalytic and photocatalytic materials and processes, development of new materials and their application, particularly to advanced manufacturing for specific materials, development of cleaner, safer and cheaper routes to existing technologies and the development of new catalysts for bio-fuels and other energy applications.Manufacturing Technologies - developing technologies for manufacturing industries by supporting new technology platforms that have broad application in high value manufacturing, developing precision control and data processing capability from strengths in engineering to both establish the platform itself and demonstrate how it can be applied to problems of industrial importance.Healthcare Technologies - supporting biomedical engineering as a fast growing area of research by equipping cross-disciplinary collaborations in the physical and life sciences, engineering and medicine to examine soft and hard tissue biomechanics, biomaterials and image processing, leading to development of new medical devices.