Very High Intensity Single Crystal Diffractometers (VHISCD)

诺丁汉大学化学学院是国际公认的研究的充满活力和创新的中心。该学院在2008年RAE中排名英国第二(剑桥和牛津之间)，目前的赠款收入超过2000万GB。我们突出的优势之一是合成化学与详细的结构表征和分析之间的密切互动。这项提议的目的就是在这一实力的基础上再接再厉，增加其能力和广度。单晶X射线结晶学分析支持了我们所有涉及合成化学的研究的生产力。它对于明确描述新材料的特性是必不可少的，但也揭示了结构、性能和功能之间的关系。在许多情况下，结构数据定义了下一代目标材料，并为优化其设计奠定了基础。每年有1200多个样品被提交给学校的晶体结构设施，但许多样品太难使用我们的旧仪器进行研究--这些仪器现在比目前可用的技术落后了几代人。我们现在正在寻求对我们的仪器进行真正重大的升级，利用一些令人兴奋的、最近开发的技术，包括非常明亮的实验室X射线源。

The School of Chemistry at The University of Nottingham is a vigorous, innovative hub for internationally-recognised research. The School was ranked 2nd in the UK (between Cambridge and Oxford) by the 2008 RAE, and current grant income exceeds £20M. One of our highlighted strengths is the close interaction between synthetic chemistry and detailed structural characterisation and analysis. This proposal is aimed squarely at building on this strength and increasing its capacity and breadth. Single crystal X-ray crystallographic analysis underpins the productivity of all our research involving synthetic chemistry. It is essential for the unambiguous characterisation of new materials, but also reveals relationships between structure, properties and function. In many cases structural data define the next generation of target materials and underpin the optimisation of their design. Over 1200 samples are submitted to the School's Crystal Structure Facility each year, but many are too difficult to study using our older instruments - these are now several technological generations behind what is currently available. We are now looking for really major upgrades to our instrumentation, by taking advantage of some exciting, recently-developed technologies including very bright laboratory X-ray sources.