MRI: Acquisition of an X-ray diffractometer for materials structural characterization and research training

MRI：购买 X 射线衍射仪用于材料结构表征和研究培训

基本信息

批准号：
2117180
负责人：
Abdellah Lisfi
金额：
$ 39.97万
依托单位：
Morgan State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2117180&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
MRI Acquisition ray diffractometer materials

项目摘要

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY:This Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award is to acquire a multifunctional X-ray diffractometer that will enhance research and education activities at Morgan State University. The requested instrument will be crucial in fulfilling the needs of advanced structural characterizations of various types of functional materials developed by scientists at Morgan State University and their partners at other collaborating institutions. This instrumentation award will consolidate the existing research collaboration between Morgan’s scientists and their partners at neighboring institutions and allow the establishment of new alliances with other academic institutions and the industrial sector. In addition to benefiting the university and its collaborators, the acquisition of this instrumentation will positively impact other sectors. The requested funds will enhance the research infrastructure of Morgan State University, which is an HBCU, and will offer research opportunities and training to minority students. It will boost junior faculty development at this institution. This will promote greater participation in materials science by African-Americans, who are underrepresented in this field of science. This instrument will increase the competitiveness of minority students in the functional materials field at Morgan State. This will significantly enhance the opportunities for African-American graduates in the job market.TECHNICAL SUMMARY:The multifunctional X-ray diffractometer to be acquired includes all typical scans offered by a four-circle diffractometer in addition to the capability of high temperature measurement. The PIs and the senior personnel of this grant are scientists from Morgan State University and Loyola University Maryland with research interests in materials such as ferromagnets, highly magnetostrictive alloys, nanomaterials, thermo-electrics, low-dimensional hetero-structures, porous materials, magneto-electrics, and optical materials. The equipment will be used to fulfill the needs of advanced structural characterization of various types of materials under development by the PIs and their research partners, as well as to provide research training to students, postdocs and faculty. The multifunctional diffractometer will play a key role in investigating the structural properties of these materials by conducting the following measurements. (1) The four-circle diffractometer scans will enable the determination of the materials' structure, quantify strain in heterostructures, determine the crystallographic orientation and epitaxy, and map the distribution of crystallites in the investigated materials. (2) The high temperature capability of the requested instrument will be crucial in investigating phase transition and determining structural changes accompanying this transition in functional materials. All these measurements together with other analyses offered by facilities at the PIs' and the senior personnel institutions will be crucial in conducting cutting-edge research and advancing scientific knowledge in the field of functional materials. This will enable engineering new advanced materials with superior performances, which will benefit the industrial sector.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.

非技术摘要：这项主要的研究工具（MRI）奖是在Morgan State Universal上获得了多种型号的拱门和教育活动将在邻近机构的科学家与其合作伙伴之间进行合作，并与其他学术界建立新的联盟，以使大学及其合作者受益。所请求的资金将增强Morgan State的基础结构，这是HBCU，这将是HBCU，并将成为HBCU的基础。训练少数族裔的学生，在摩根州立大学的竞争性材料领域不足以增加竞争力的学生。来自摩根州立大学和洛约拉大学的科学家，含有材料，例如铁磁铁，高度磁磁性合金，纳米材料，热电器的材料，磁电磁电子和光学材料。 PIS和研究派对的材料，为学生提供研究培训，并通过晶体学方向和同志，在研究这些材料的结构特性方面具有关键作用。在研究材料中的晶体分布将至关重要通过卓越的表演来推进局限性的新高级材料领域，这将使该奖项受益。