Technologies for the Future

国际领先的科学需要拥有最先进设备的实验设施。先进材料是技术创新的关键驱动力，对科学和社会都有广泛的好处。在这个项目中，我们的目标是更新四个设施，对物理、电子、化学和生物产生影响，以增强我们在这一领域的能力，最大限度地利用约克大学和其他大学。我们将安装新的物理和化学表征系统，以支持一系列具有挑战性的新应用，例如最先进的薄膜生长能力和生物灵感传感器技术。使用这些新设备，我们将实现下一代材料开发的四个主要里程碑：1.更新薄膜生长能力，以开发下一代材料。更新电子显微镜设备，促进下一代材料的高空间分辨率测绘。扩展和更新分子表征方面的能力，以支持跨越物理和生命科学的多学科活动。通过增加一台高性能的Orbitrap Fusion仪器，更新、补充和扩展约克卓越质谱学中心(COEM)的能力。通过这项提议，我们将投资于最先进的设备，使我们能够创造、分析和理解新材料，并使用它们在大学内部和外部合作伙伴(包括JEOL和Seagate等关键行业合作伙伴)开发创新的跨学科技术。

Internationally leading science requires experimental facilities with state-of-the-art equipment. Advanced materials are a key driver of technological innovation, with widespread benefits for both science and society. In this project, we aim to refresh four facilities with impact across Physics, Electronics, Chemistry and Biology in order to enhance our capability in this area, with maximum usage across the University of York and beyond. We will install new physical and chemical characterisation systems to support a range of challenging new applications, for example, state of the art thin film growth capabilities, and biologically-inspired sensor technologies. Using these new facilities, we will achieve four major milestones for next-generation materials development:1. Refresh thin film growth capabilities in order to develop next generation materials.2. Renew electron microscopy facilities to facilitate high spatial resolution mapping of next generation materials.3. Extend and refresh a capability in molecular characterisation to underpin multidisciplinary activities spanning the physical and life sciences.4. Refresh, complement and extend the capabilities of the York Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry (CoEMS) by addition of a high-performance Orbitrap Fusion instrument.Through this proposal we will invest in state-of-the-art equipment that will enable us to create, analyse and understand new materials and use them to develop innovative interdisciplinary technologies within the university and with outside collaborators, including key industrial partners such as JEOL and Seagate.