University of York - EPSRC capital award for core equipment 2022/23

约克大学提议通过这项战略投资购买以下核心资本设备：电感耦合等离子体光学发射光谱仪(ICP-OES)。该设备将增加大学的研究能力，并支持化学系、物理学院、工程技术学院和生物系的合作研究。该仪器将提供十亿分之一或以上浓度的溶液、分子和材料的关键定量元素组成信息。这将支持一些多学科合作项目，包括讯问金属络合物和用于化学合成、催化、包括电池在内的金属废料回收以及金属纳米颗粒磁性、诊断和治疗的材料。电感耦合等离子体原子发射光谱的高灵敏度也支持表征和理解需要包括金属分析在内的痕量金属分析的系统的工作。用于X射线衍射(X射线衍射)和反射率(XRR)研究的穹顶热台(Anton Paar DHS 1100)。所要求的热阶段将允许原位加热高达1100oC的样品，同时测量X射线衍射和X射线衍射率。这种原位热观察能力将提供额外的独特信息，如依赖于温度的相变、结构参数的热变化、揭示反应动力学、中间相或在较低温度下分解的高温相，所有这些在工业过程中都是高度相关的。它将在物理、工程和技术学院和我们的化学系的项目中使用，包括分析商业自旋电子和磁性设备中的磁性隧道结，以及分析太阳能电池的材料。这台设备不仅将为我们的工程和物理科学(EPS)研究人员增加急需的专用容量，而且还将具有特定于EPS实验要求的增强能力，例如扩展的波长检测范围(160-1600 nm)，以研究仅在更长波长下才能发现的节能过程。该仪器将支持我们化学系、物理、工程与技术学院、节能材料中心和约克-JEOL纳米中心的有机、无机、物理和分子材料组的研究人员在液晶、螺旋半导体、自愈式3D可打印凝胶和变形聚合物等领域的项目。

The University of York proposes to purchase the following items of core capital equipment through this strategic investment:An inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES). This equipment will add research capability to the University and support collaborative research across the Department of Chemistry, School of Physics, Engineering and Technology and Department of Biology. This instrument will provide critical quantitative elemental composition information of solutions, molecules and materials at part per billion concentrations and above. This will support a number of multi-disciplinary collaborative projects including interrogating metal complexes and materials used in chemical synthesis, catalysis, metal waste recycling including batteries, and metal nanoparticle magnetism, diagnostics and therapeutics. The high sensitivity of ICP-OES also supports work to characterise and understand systems requiring trace metal analysis including metallomics.A domed hot stage (Anton Paar DHS 1100) for x-ray diffraction (XRD) and reflectivity (XRR) studies. The requested hot stage will allow in-situ heating of samples up to 1100oC whilst simultaneously measuring XRD and XRR. This in-situ thermal observation capability will provide additional unique information such as temperature-dependent phase transformations, thermal changes of structural parameters, unveil reaction kinetics, intermediate phases, or high-temperature phases that decompose at lower temperatures, all of which are highly relevant in industrial processes. It will be used across the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology and our Department of Chemistry in projects including analysis of magnetic tunnel junctions within commercial spintronic and magnetic devices and analysis of materials for solar cells.A multi-parameter circular dichroism spectrophotometer. Not only will this equipment add much needed dedicated capacity for our engineering and physical sciences (EPS) researchers, but it will also have enhanced capability specific to EPS experimental requirements such as an extended wavelength detection range (160-1600 nm) to study energy-efficient processes that are only revealed at longer wavelengths. This instrument will support researchers across Organic, Inorganic, Physical and Molecular Materials groups in our Department of Chemistry, the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, the Centre for Energy Efficient Materials and the York-JEOL Nanocentre with projects in areas such as liquid crystals, helical semiconductors, self-healing 3D printable gels and 'shape-shifting' polymers.