Heriot-Watt University EPSRC Core Equipment Funding Award

我们对核心设备分配的愿景是为两个设备套件提供资金，以促进雄心勃勃的世界级研究计划，涉及一系列学术团队，其中包括经验丰富的和早期职业研究人员。第一项设备是具有宽调谐范围、超窄线宽和大连续无模式跳变扫描范围的高功率激光器。该激光器将用于新型量子材料和器件的激光光谱学和量子控制，并在多个研究小组使用的共享设施中的几个实验装置之间共享。最终，这项研究将使在量子水平上测量、计算和交流信息的新方法成为可能。第二个设备套件用于质谱分析，可以实现气相色谱和电感耦合等离子体质谱分析的一系列功能。质谱分析套件将在化学科学研究所的许多研究小组之间共享，并与大学的其他学院共享。这将使我们能够在新的合成方法中表征我们制造的物种，并确定催化循环中的所有关键阶段。这就意味着我们可以优化合成策略，为绿色化学设计新的催化剂。

Our vision for the Core Equipment Allocation is to fund two equipment suites is to facilitate ambitious world-class research initiatives involving a range of academic teams which include mixture of experienced and early career researchers. The first item of equipment is a high-power laser with a broad tuning range, ultra-narrow linewidths, and a large continuous mode-hop-free scanning range. The laser will be used in laser spectroscopy and quantum control of novel quantum materials and devices and shared between several experimental setups in a shared facility used by multiple research groups. Ultimately, this research will enable new ways to measure, compute, and communicate information at the quantum level. The second equipment suite is for mass spectrometry to allow a range of capabilities around gas-chromatography and inductively coupled plasma MS. The mass spectrometry suite will be shared across many research groups in the Institute of Chemical Sciences through to other schools in the University. This will allow us the characterise the species we make in new synthetic methodologies and to identify all the key stages in a catalytic cycle for example. This then means that we can optimise synthetic strategies and design new catalysts for greener chemistry.