MRI: Acquisition of a Nanoimprinting System for Research and Education

MRI：获取用于研究和教育的纳米压印系统

• 批准号: 0821582
• 负责人: Chunlei Wang
• 金额: $ 39.76万
• 依托单位: Florida International University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0821582&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Nanoimprinting; System; Research

This award provides funds to the Florida International University to acquire a Nanoimprinter for research and education. Nanoimprinting is not governed by the optical diffraction limit and has the capability of large area exposures with high throughput. It will enable researchers at FIU?s open-access lab to conduct several main cutting edge research projects, such as: the development of micro-batteries based on carbon nanoelectrodes; integrated nano-photonic devices based on polymers; the mechanics of nanostructured polymer materials; DNA array biomedical devices; Micro/Nano fluidic devices; and carbon-nanotube sensors. The proposed activities will advance knowledge in and across different fields. By acquiring this next level of capability, FIU researchers and collaborators will be able to perform research on nanotechnology devices and processes that have great potential for actual applications. The successful development of the proposed projects, enabled by the Nanoimprinter acquisition, has broad implications in health care and homeland security. This instrumentation research will integrate undergraduate and graduate student?s training. Existing hands-on laboratory courses will be expanded to include experiments with this new nanoscale mass-production technology. Together with the exciting research topics, the enhanced infrastructure for research at FIU - one of the top Hispanic Serving Institutions in Florida - will attract more students from our underrepresented population into graduate school. A big impact on increasing the number of students in materials science, biomedical and electrical engineering from traditionally underrepresented groups is expected. Exposing graduate and undergraduate students to this new technology in an open-access laboratory will also help to boost interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research collaboration across various research groups, blurring the boundary of departments and even institutions. The Nanoimprinter will be placed in the existing open-access Motorola Nanofabrication Research Facility, and will be easily accessible to campus users as well as other academic and industry users in south Florida.

该奖项为佛罗里达国际大学提供资金以购买纳米压印机用于研究和教育。纳米压印不受光学衍射极限的限制，具有高通量大面积曝光的能力。它将使金融情报机构开放实验室的研究人员能够开展几个主要的前沿研究项目，例如：基于碳纳米电极的微型电池的开发；基于聚合物的集成纳米光子器件；纳米结构高分子材料力学； DNA阵列生物医学设备；微纳流体装置；和碳纳米管传感器。拟议的活动将增进不同领域内和跨领域的知识。通过获得这一新水平的能力，金融情报机构的研究人员和合作者将能够对具有巨大实际应用潜力的纳米技术设备和工艺进行研究。通过收购 Nanoimprinter，拟议项目的成功开发对医疗保健和国土安全具有广泛影响。该仪器研究将整合本科生和研究生的培训。现有的实践实验室课程将扩展到包括这种新的纳米级大规模生产技术的实验。佛罗里达国际大学（佛罗里达州顶尖的西班牙裔服务机构之一）的研究基础设施得到加强，再加上令人兴奋的研究课题，将吸引更多来自我们代表性不足的群体的学生进入研究生院。预计这将对增加传统上代表性不足的群体中材料科学、生物医学和电气工程学生的数量产生重大影响。让研究生和本科生在开放实验室接触这项新技术也将有助于促进不同研究小组之间的跨学科和多学科研究合作，模糊部门甚至机构的界限。纳米压印机将放置在现有的开放式摩托罗拉纳米制造研究设施中，校园用户以及佛罗里达州南部的其他学术和工业用户都可以轻松使用。