Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectroscopy Requisition

主要申请人(PA)Towler正在提交购买电感耦合等离子体-光学发射光谱仪的申请。该仪器使研究人员能够确定生物活性物质的反应性。简单地说，ICP-OES评估材料中的离子释放，然后用它来预测作为离子释放量函数的材料对环境的响应。这些信息直接与材料在体内的降解性和可能的生物活性反应有关。*Towler的临床材料与诊断(CMD)实验室是瑞尔森工程与建筑科学学院(FEAS)资金最雄厚的实验室之一，自2013年开始他的任期以来，仅联邦资金就超过260万加元(来自加拿大卫生研究院(CIHR)的180万加元和来自国家科学与工程研究委员会(NSERC)的80万加元)。*CMD的HQP(目前有3名博士后研究员、6名博士生和5名MASC学生)正在开发新型玻璃和陶瓷材料，主要是为了造福加拿大老龄化的人口。Towler是莱尔森唯一在玻璃和陶瓷领域工作的教员，因此，他的学科几乎没有内部核心设备。*尽管Towler已经在他的资金允许的范围内购买了尽可能多的玻璃表征设备，但在过去的五年里，仍然有一种关键设备他既无法购买也无法不受限制地使用，那就是ICP-OES。为了：*1.最大限度地减少外包这类特征对联邦资金的消耗，*2.最大限度地提高同行评审产出的质量和数量，*3.拓展到新的科学领域，以及*4.改善HQP体验。*Towler正在为这台重要的材料分析设备申请资金。*通过接受这一请求，CMD有巨大的潜力来提高科学质量，因为它将对HQP体验产生‘连锁’效应，并增加它们留在加拿大学术界和工业界的可能性。**

Principal applicant (PA) Towler is submitting for consideration the purchase of an inductively coupled plasma – optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES). This apparatus enables researchers to determine the reactivity of bioactive materials. Simply, ICP-OES evaluates ion release from materials, which is then used to predict the environmental response to that material as a function of the quantity of ions released. This information directly relates to a material's degradability and likely bioactive response in vivo. ******Towler's Clinical Materials & Diagnostics (CMD) lab is one of the most well-funded in Ryerson's Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science (FEAS), with over C$2.6M in federal funds alone since commencement of his tenure in 2013 (C$1.8M from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, CIHR, and C$800k from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council, NSERC). ******The CMD's HQP (currently three post-doctoral fellows, six PhD and five MASc students) are developing novel glass and ceramic-based materials predominantly to benefit Canada's ageing population. Towler is the only faculty working in the glass and ceramics field in Ryerson and as a result, there is little in-house core equipment in his discipline.******Although Towler has purchased as much glass characterization equipment as his funds have allowed, there is still one critical piece of equipment he has neither been able to purchase nor find unfettered access to in the last five years, and that is ICP-OES. In order to:***1. minimize the drain of outsourcing such characterisation on federal funds, ***2. maximise the quality and quantity of peer-reviewed output,***3. expand into new scientific areas, and ***4. improve the HQP experience. ***Towler is requesting funds for this essential piece of materials analysis equipment. ******There is tremendous potential to improve the quality of science resulting from the CMD by accepting this request as it will have a ‘knock on' effect on the HQP experience and increase the likelihood of their retention in academia and industry in Canada.**