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; 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了资金，以获取研究和教育的纳米工具。纳米印刷不受光学衍射极限的控制，并且具有高吞吐量的大面积暴露能力。它将使FIU的开放式实验室的研究人员能够开展几个主要的尖端研究项目，例如：基于碳纳米电极的微爆发发展；基于聚合物的集成纳米光子设备；纳米结构聚合物材料的力学； DNA阵列生物医学设备；微/纳米流体设备；和碳 - 纳米管传感器。拟议的活动将提高不同领域和跨不同领域的知识。通过获得下一水平的能力，FIU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流程进行研究。由纳米型物品收购实现的拟议项目的成功开发对医疗保健和国土安全性具有广泛的影响。这项仪器研究将整合本科和研究生的培训。现有的动手实验室课程将扩大，包括使用这种新的纳米级批量生产技术的实验。加上令人兴奋的研究主题，FIU的研究基础设施增强了（佛罗里达州最重要的西班牙裔服务机构之一），将吸引更多来自代表性不足的人口的学生进入研究生院。预计将对增加材料科学，生物医学和电气工程的学生数量的影响很大。在开放式实验室中将毕业生和本科生揭露这项新技术，还将有助于促进各个研究小组之间的跨学科和多学科研究合作，从而模糊了部门甚至机构的边界。 Nanoimprinter将被放置在现有的开放式摩托罗拉纳米制造研究机构中，校园用户以及南佛罗里达州的其他学术和行业用户都可以轻松访问。