NNCI: Soft Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource

NNCI：软混合纳米技术实验 (SHyNE) 资源

基本信息

批准号：
2025633
负责人：
Vinayak Dravid
金额：
$ 550万
依托单位：
Northwestern University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Cooperative Agreement
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-09-01 至 2025-08-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2025633&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
NNCI Soft Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental

项目摘要

Non-Technical Description:The Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource NNCI site is the Northwestern University (NU) led collaborative venture with the Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility (PNF) of the University of Chicago (UC). SHyNE builds on each institution's long history of transforming the frontiers of science and engineering. Soft nanostructures are typically polymeric, biological, and fluidic, while hybrid represents systems comprising structures and hybrid materials comprising soft-hard interfaces. SHyNE facilities provides broad access to an extensive fabrication, characterization, and computational infrastructure with a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary approach for transformative science and enabling technologies. SHyNE provides specialized capabilities for soft materials and soft-hard hybrid nano-systems. SHyNE enhances regional capabilities by providing users with on-site and remote open-access to state-of-the-art laboratories and world-class technical expertise to help solve the challenging problems in nanotechnology research and development. SHyNE covers non-traditional industries: agricultural, biomedical, chemical, food, geological and environmental, among others. A critical component of the SHyNE mission is scholarly outreach through secondary and post-secondary research experience and integration with course/curricula as well as societal and public outreach through a novel nano-journalism project in collaboration with the Medill School of Journalism. SHyNE promotes and facilitates active participation of underrepresented groups, including women and minorities, in sciences and utilizes Chicago's public museums for broader community outreach. SHyNE leverages an exceptional depth of intellectual, academic, and facilities resources to provide critical infrastructure in support of research, application development, and problem-solving in nanoscience and nanotechnology and integrates this transformative approach into the societal fabric of Chicago and the greater Midwest.Technical Description:SHyNE is a solution-centric, open-access collaborative initiative with strong ties with Northwestern University's International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN), in partnership with University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. SHyNE open-access user facilities bring together broad experience and capabilities in traditional soft nanomaterials such as biological, polymeric or fluidic systems and hybrid systems combining soft/hard materials and interfaces. Collectively, soft and hybrid nanostructures represent remarkable scientific and technological opportunities. However, given the sub-100nm length-scale and related complexities, advanced facilities are needed to harness their full potential. Such facilities require capabilities to pattern soft/hybrid nanostructures across large areas and tools/techniques to characterize them in their pristine states. These divergent yet integrated needs are met by SHyNE, as it coordinates Northwestern's extensive cryo-bio, characterization and soft-nanopatterning capabilities with the state-of-the-art cleanroom fabrication and expertise also at UC's Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility (PNF). SHyNE addresses emerging needs in synthesis/assembly of soft/biological structures and integration of classical clean-room capabilities with soft-biological structures, providing expertise and instrumentation related to the synthesis, purification, and characterization of peptides and peptide-based materials. SHyNE coordinates with Argonne National Lab facilities and leverages existing super-computing and engineering expertise under Center for Hierarchical Materials Design (CHiMaD) and Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII), respectively. An extensive array of innovative educational, industry and societal outreach, such as nano-journalism, industry-focused workshops/symposia and collaborations with Chicago area museums, provide for an integrated and comprehensive coverage of modern infrastructure for soft/hybrid systems for the next generation researchers and the broader society.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

非技术描述：软性和混合纳米技术实验（Shyne）资源NNCI网站是西北大学（NU）与芝加哥大学（UC）的Pritzker Nanofricational（PNF）的合作合作。 Shyne建立在每个机构改变科学和工程前沿的悠久历史上。软纳米结构通常是聚合物，生物学和流体的，而混合体代表了包括结构和杂种材料的系统。 Shyne设施为广泛的制造，表征和计算基础架构提供了广泛的访问权，采用多方面和跨学科的方法进行变革科学和促进技术。 Shyne为软材料和软性混合纳米系统提供了专门的功能。 Shyne通过为用户提供最先进的实验室和世界一流的技术专长，从而增强了区域能力，以帮助解决纳米技术研究和开发中具有挑战性的问题。 Shyne涵盖了非传统行业：农业，生物医学，化学，食品，地质和环境等。 Shyne任务的一个关键组成部分是通过与Medill新闻学院合作，通过二级和上学后的研究经验和与课程/课程以及社会和公共宣传的融合以及社会和公共宣传的关键组成部分。 Shyne促进并促进了包括妇女和少数民族在内的代表性不足的团体的积极参与，并利用芝加哥的公共博物馆进行更广泛的社区外展。 Shyne利用了智力，学术和设施资源的特殊深度，以支持纳米科学和纳米技术的研究，应用程序开发以及解决问题的问题，并将这种变革性的方法整合到芝加哥和更大的中西部的社会结构中。纳米技术（IIN）与芝加哥大学的Pritzker分子工程学院合作。 Shyne Open-OpenAccess用户设施在传统的软纳米材料（例如生物学，聚合物或流体系统以及混合系统）中汇集了广泛的经验和功能，结合了软/硬材料和接口。总体而言，软和混合纳米结构代表了非凡的科学和技术机会。但是，鉴于长度尺度和相关的复杂性低于100nm，需要先进的设施来利用其全部潜力。这样的设施需要功能来对大面积和工具/技术的软/混合纳米结构进行模板，以在其原始状态下对其进行表征。 Shyne满足了这些不同而综合的需求，因为它可以通过最先进的清洁室制造，并在UC的Pritzker纳米制作设施（PNF）协调西北地区广泛的冷冻生物，表征和软纳米图案的功能。 Shyne满足了软/生物结构的合成/组装的新兴需求，以及与软生物结构结构的经典清洁室功能的整合，提供了与肽和肽基材料的合成，纯化和表征相关的专业知识和仪器。 Shyne分别与Argonne国家实验室设施协调，并利用分层材料设计中心（CHIMAD）和数字制造与设计创新研究所（DMDII）的现有超级计算和工程专业知识。各种各样的创新教育，工业和社会宣传，例如纳米企业家，以行业为重点的研讨会/专注于芝加哥地区博物馆的合作以及与下一代研究人员和广泛的社会的软性/混合系统的现代基础设施的综合覆盖范围。基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。