Additive nanomanufacturing using nanoscale printing

关于上述总体方向，该项目将开始探索不同的方法，以联合收割机（i）电液动力学喷墨打印，（ii）扫描探针和（iii）纳米流体，如果适用的话，在表面上添加图案。我们讨论的方法之一是利用cytosurge生产的探针a）复制该公司在液体图案化方面的成功，以及B）将这项工作扩展到热致动和电致动材料，并以液体或蒸发形式对其进行图案化。这个项目的目标是提出一系列纳米级的制造技术，使我们能够在桌面上设置-UPS可以附加地蒸发打印材料，以及在实验室环境中不使用掩模而容易地蚀刻材料。其目标是大大简化目前依赖于光刻的纳米制造工艺。尽管光刻是一种非常成功的工艺，但现在已知这些工艺非常不环保（联合国估计生产2 g芯片需要1.6 kg化石燃料）。因此，虽然非常适合大规模制造相同的组件，但对于复杂的纳米器件来说，小批量组件的创新是不存在的。我们的目标是以较低的批量实现此类组件的“定制”制造。该项目将作为研究小组更大努力的一部分，为实现这一目标做出贡献。该项目还将培训哲学博士学生掌握一系列高要求技能，如光刻、器件设计和建模、纳米级表征、数据分析和报告撰写以及独立设计和运行实验的能力。这与EPSRC的战略“使其本地化，使其> bespoke”。它还能够让英国的小型设计公司真正测试原型设备，并通过价值链保留更多价值。潜在的合作者作为更大的EPSRC奖学金的一部分，由H。Bhaskaran包括IBM、牛津仪器、MSolv、Bodle Technologies和巴斯夫，但也包括其他EPSRC资助项目下的更大的财团，如可穿戴和灵活技术财团（WAFT，www.waftcollaboration.org）。这项研究与EPSRC的制造业未来主题以及工程和物理科学任务保持一致。具有工程学背景的学生有机会以独特的创造性方式为这一令人兴奋的研究领域做出贡献。EPSRC的研究领域：工程信息和通信技术（ICT）制造未来物理科学研究基础设施

Regarding the general direction outlined above, the project will begin by exploring different approaches to combine (i) Electrohydrodynamic-Inkjet Printing, (ii) Scanning Probes and (iii) Nanofluidics, if applicable, to additively pattern on surfaces. One of the approaches we discussed is to utilize probes produced by cytosurge to a) Replicate the success the company has had in patterning liquids and b) to extend this work to both thermally and electrically actuate materials and pattern them in either liquid or evaporated form.Overall, the aims of this project are to come up with a range of manufacturing techniques at the nanoscale that will enable us to have desktop set-ups that can evaporatively print materials additively, as well as easily etch materials without use of a mask in a laboratory setting. The goal is to vastly simplify the nanofabrication process, which currently relies on lithography. Although lithography is a wildly successful process, it is now known that these processes are very environmentally unfriendly (with estimates for a 2 g chip requiring 1.6 kg of fossil fuels to produce by the UN). Therefore, although well suited to mass manufacturing identical components, innovation on smaller batches of components is non-existent for complex nanoscale devices. Our goal is to enable "bespoke" manufacturing of such components with lower batch sizes. This project will contribute towards that goal as part of a larger effort within the research group.It will also train the DPhil student in a range of the high demand skills such as lithography, device design and modeling, characterization at the nanoscale, data analysis and report writing as well as the ability to design and run experiments independently.This is well aligned to EPSRC's strategy of "Make it local, make it > bespoke". It also has the capability to let small design houses that UK has to really test prototype devices and retain more value through the value chain. Potential collaborators as part of the larger EPSRC Fellowship held by H. Bhaskaran include IBM, Oxford Instruments, MSolv, Bodle Technologies and BASF, but also much larger consortiums under other EPSRC funded projects such as the Wearable and Flexible Technologies Consortium (WAFT, www.waftcollaboration.org). This research is aligned to EPSRC's Manufacturing the future theme, as well as the Engineering and Physical Sciences remits. With a background in engineering, the projects fits very well to the skills of the student, who has the opportunity to contribute in a uniquely creative manner towards this exciting research area.EPSRC's research areas:EngineeringInformation and communication technologies (ICT)Manufacturing the futurePhysical sciencesResearch infrastructure