Supporting and Nurturing Adventurous Chemistry Research in Cardiff

在补助金申请中，确定了四个具体的冒险研究项目，并提出了在补助金的24个月期间促进进一步冒险研究项目的程序。然而，专家小组表示，将只为支助项目3(赠款申请中的一项具体的初步试点研究)提供资金，并要求对赠款申请的原始摘要进行修改，以便只反映拟议研究的供资部分。本专项资助项目总结如下：项目3：许多重要材料(包括药物、颜料和其他工业上重要的化合物)是通过溶液形成晶体来制备的。在新材料的设计中，重要的是能够诱导特定类型的分子在结晶过程中形成的晶体中形成所需的结构排列。要实现这一目标，需要了解结晶过程是如何发生的。不幸的是，我们目前对结晶过程的关键早期阶段所发生的事情知之甚少，因此我们控制这类过程的能力受到严重限制。拟议的项目将评估一种新的想法，通过关注最初在形成最终结晶产品的过程中形成的分子聚集体，来深入了解结晶过程的早期阶段。

In the grant application, four specific adventurous research projects were identified, and procedures for promoting further adventurous research projects during the 24 month period of the grant were also proposed. However, the Panel has indicated that funding will be provided only to support Project 3 (one of the specific initial pilot studies in the grant application), and has requested that the original summary of the grant application should be modified to reflect only the funded component of the proposed research. The summary of this specific funded project is as follows:Project 3: Many important materials (including pharmaceuticals, pigments and other industrially important compounds) are prepared by the formation of crystals from solution. In the design of new materials, it is important to be able to induce a specific type of molecule to form a desired structural arrangement in the crystals that are formed in the crystallization process. To achieve this aim requires an understanding of how crystallization processes occur. Unfortunately, we currently have very little understanding of what happens in the crucial early stages of crystallization processes, and hence our ability to control such processes is severely limited. The proposed project will assess a new idea for gaining insights into the early stages of crystallization processes, by focusing on the molecular aggregates that are initially formed on the way to the formation of the final crystalline product.