Structuring the Future - Underpinning world-leading science in EaStCHEM through cutting edge characterisation

这项建议是为了投资于EaStCHEM(圣安德鲁斯大学和爱丁堡大学化学学院)的结构表征基础设施。许多化学品和材料的用途与它们的结构结构密切相关，因此，了解它们的结构对于了解如何在当前科学研究的一些最重要领域最大限度地发挥影响和制定新的尖端方案至关重要。这笔投资将用于结构表征、单晶X射线衍射(Sta)、粉末X射线衍射(Sta)、固态核磁共振(Sta)、液态核磁共振(UoE)、LC-MS(UoE)、成像/离子迁移率MS(UoE)等主要技术，支持和支持联合学院相当大比例的世界领先研究。我们的愿景是在结构科学的基础设施和培训方面投入巨资，为世界领先的实验提供更强的能力，这些实验将为我们具有质量和广度的广泛科学奠定基础。通过这项投资实现的科学质量(详情见下文)涵盖了符合EPSRC许多优先领域(例如催化、储能材料、医疗保健技术等)和许多重大挑战主题(例如拨号分子、扩展系统的定向组装等)的科学。因此，该提案中的国家重要性隐含在EPSRC的这些指定中。然而，我们努力提供一个环境，使这样的投资所带来的化学质量具有重大的全球影响，并包括加速我们对非学术世界的影响的具体目标。为此，EaStCHEM战略着眼于加强学术与行业互动的高影响力研究，总体目标是提高化学研究的经济和社会影响，以及促进尽可能高质量的基础科学。这一战略包括围绕现有基础设施和技术专长的独特集合，为研究生和工业研究人员制定强有力的培训方案。拟议的基础设施与EPSRC投资组合中的重要挑战主题之间有明确的联系。能源、医疗保健技术和制造未来是三个最相关的主题，将直接受到研究基础设施的影响。在这些主题中，有许多研究领域与拟议的研究直接相关--其中许多领域已被确定为EPSRC资金的增长领域(例如催化、能量储存)，以及其他计划维持资金的重要研究领域(燃料电池技术、合成配位和超分子化学等)。

This proposal is for investment in the infrastructure for structural characterisation in EaStCHEM (Schools of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews and the University of Edinburgh). The utility of many chemicals and materials is intimately connected to their structural architecture, and knowledge of their structure is therefore vital in understanding how to maximise impact and to develop new cutting edge programmes in some of the most important areas of current scientific research. The investment will be in major techniques employed for structural characterisation, single crystal X-ray diffraction (StA), powder X-ray diffraction (StA), solid state NMR (StA), liquid state NMR (UoE), LC-MS (UoE), imaging/ion mobility MS (UoE), underpinning and enabling a significant proportion of the world-leading research in the joint School. Our vision is to invest heavily in both the infrastructure and training in structural science to provide increased capability for world-leading experiments that will underpin a wide range of our science that has both quality and breadth. The quality of the science that will be enabled through this investment (see below for details) covers science that fits into many of the EPSRC priority areas (e.g. catalysis, energy storage materials, healthcare technologies etc) and many of the Grand Challenge themes (e.g. Dial-a-molecule, Directed assembly of Extended Systems etc). Therefore the National Importance in this proposal is implicit in these EPSRC designations. However, we strive to provide an environment where the quality of the chemistry enabled by investment such as this has significant global impact, and includes specific aims of accelerating our impact on the non-academic world. To this end the EaStCHEM strategy looks to emphasise high impact research that enhances academic-industry interactions with the overall goal of enhancing the economic and social impact of chemistry research as well as promoting fundamental science of the highest possible quality. This strategy includes the development of strong training programmes for graduate students and industrial researchers based around the unique collection of available infrastructure and technical expertise. There are clear links between the proposed infrastructure and the important challenge themes in the EPSRC portfolio. The Energy, Healthcare Technologies and Manufacturing the Future are the three most pertinent themes which will be directly impacted by the research infrastructure. Within the themes there are many research areas that map directly with the proposed research - many of which have been identified for growth in EPSRC funding (e.g. catalysis, energy storage) as well as other important research areas scheduled for maintained funding (fuel cell technologies, synthetic coordination and supramolecular chemistry etc).