Core Capability for Chemistry Research: Supporting Research Excellence in Chemistry at the University of Bath

巴斯大学化学系是化学领域领先的研究学院，拥有丰富多样的优秀研究成果。这是通过学科外和一系列合作伙伴之间的紧密联系而增强的，这是通过外向的合作方式实现的，作为领导者和合作伙伴积极参与重大的国家和国际合作。巴斯化学也有很强的工业联系。巴斯化学研究的高质量和数量得到了现代化实验室和设备空间的支持，最近巴斯校园可用实验室空间的增加表明了大学对质量和数量的认可。然而，随着最近研究活动的急剧增加，迫切需要更新和扩展我们的研究人员可用的设备组合。从这些需求的战略角度来看，我们已经确定了四个主要领域，其中设备的增强将对我们的研究能力和产出产生直接影响。这些是单晶x射线衍射套件，400MHz核磁共振光谱仪，MALDI-TOF/TOF质谱仪和UHPLC轨道阱质谱仪。最近扩建的化学研究空间非常适合容纳这些核心设备的增强，大学将进一步支持这些设备的安装。这些核心化学设备不仅为我们庞大而快速增长的研究工作提供了更多的能力，而且还将为我们的研究人员和他们的许多合作者开辟新的研究领域。

The Department of Chemistry at the University of Bath is a leading research school in Chemistry, with a diverse and substantial portfolio of excellent research. This is augmented by strong links outside the discipline and across a range of partners, which is enabled by an outward looking approach to collaboration, with heavy involvement in major national and international collaborations as both leader and partner. Bath Chemistry also has strong industrial links.The high quality and volume of Bath Chemistry research is supported by access to modern laboratory and equipment space, augmented by a recent increase in available laboratory space on the Bath campus showing the recognition of this quality and volume by the University. However, with recent dramatic increases in research activity, there is an urgent need to update and extend the portfolio of equipment available to our researchers. Taking a strategic view of these requirements, we have identified four main areas where equipment enhancements will have a high immediate impact on our research capabilities and outputs. These are a single crystal X-ray diffraction suite, a 400MHz NMR spectrometer, a MALDI-TOF/TOF Mass Spectrometer and a UHPLC Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer. The recently delivered expansion of chemistry research space is well suited to hosting these core equipment enhancements, whose installation will be further supported by the University.These pieces of core Chemistry equipment would offer not only much more capacity for our large and rapidly growing research effort, but this provision will also open up new areas of investigation for our researchers and their many collaborators.