Lancaster University ECR Equipment

这笔资金将用于支持兰开斯特大学材料科学研究所（MSI）早期职业研究人员（ecr）的新研究设备，与EPSRC的世界级实验室计划一致。兰开斯特大学的MSI是该大学的战略重点，首次围绕一些共同的研究主题，将我们所有的学者聚集在材料科学领域。这笔资金主要围绕2017年9月启动的MSI的第一个主题-活性表面和界面，鼓励化学，工程和物理之间的广泛合作，涉及42名学者，其中40%是ecr。兰开斯特大学通过50周年讲师计划吸引了许多ecr，该计划旨在培养未来的研究领导者，并为他们的职业和研究发展提供大量的教学减免和一揽子支持。EPSRC的这项投资，加上之前的机构投资（过去6年总计5500万英镑），将使具有定制孔隙度和功能的新型三维有机和有机金属结构的世界级研究成为可能。这些新材料将在能量存储和转换、多相催化和量子技术等领域得到应用。值得注意的是，在任命我们的ecr之前，这些研究领域在兰开斯特并不存在，只是随着MSI的形成和它提供的跨学科机会而聚集在一起。了解这些材料（以及许多其他材料）的结构和性能的确切性质是本研究领域的一个关键问题，其典型特征是可用能力的限制。这个问题通常是新材料开发的一个限制因素，因此本次投标将提供设备来实现这些特性，通过提供具有世界一流设施的优秀ecr来加快新材料开发过程。从该设备中受益的ecr将战略性地定位于开发：从分子结构到块状材料制造的综合多尺度能力；世界领先的材料表征；以及将材料科学创新应用于现实世界问题的专业知识。

This funding will be used to support new research equipment for Lancaster University's early career researchers (ECRs) in our Materials Science Institute (MSI), in line with EPSRC's World Class Labs initiative.Lancaster's MSI is a strategic focus for the University, bringing together all of our academics in the Materials Science space for the first time around a number of common research themes. This funding is centred around the first theme of the MSI recently launched in September 2017 - Active Surfaces and Interfaces, encouraging extensive collaboration between chemistry, engineering and physics, involving 42 academics, of which 40% are ECRs. Many of these ECRs have been attracted to Lancaster through our 50th Anniversary Lectureship scheme, which aims to nurture the research leaders of tomorrow, with significant teaching relief and a fantastic package of support for their career and research development.This investment from EPSRC, along with preceding institutional investment (totalling £55M over the past 6 years) will enable world-class research into a new class of three-dimensional organic and organometallic structures with tailored porosity and functionality. These new materials will have applications in topics such as energy storage and conversion, heterogeneous catalysis and quantum technologies. It is important to note that these areas of research did not exist at Lancaster prior to appointment of our ECRs and only came together with the formation of the MSI and the interdisciplinary opportunities it afforded.Understanding the exact nature of the structure and properties of these materials (and of many others) is a key issue in this research area, typified by restrictions in the capabilities available to characterise them. This problem is often a limiting factor in new materials development and thus this bid will provide equipment to enable these characterisations, speeding up the process of new materials development by providing excellent ECRs with world-class facilities. The ECRs that will benefit from this equipment will be strategically positioned to exploit: comprehensive multiscale capabilities in fabricating materials ranging from molecular structure to bulk material; world-leading materials characterisation; and expertise in applying materials science innovations to real world problems.