Equipment: Facilitating Optical X-Ray Techniques for Research and Organized Training at Alabama State University (FOXTROT-ASU)

设备： 阿拉巴马州立大学 (FOXTROT-ASU) 促进光学 X 射线技术研究和组织培训

• 批准号: 2324575
• 负责人: Robert Green
• 金额: $ 20.37万
• 依托单位: Alabama State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2324575&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Equipment; Facilitating; Optical; Ray; Techniques

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) provides support to strengthen STEM undergraduate education and research at HBCUs. This project focuses on the acquisition of an X-ray diffractometer to enhance the teaching and research capabilities within the Chemistry, Forensic Biology, Forensic Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering programs. Underrepresented students in STEM will have the opportunity to conduct research with major instrumentation and have questions answered by utilizing this technique. Access to this instrument allows for students to strengthen their research background and understand the connection between theory and application by incorporating this technique into the degree program curricula. This endeavor will play a role in preparing students for the workforce and/or advanced degree programs in STEM disciplines and create local collaborations with other institutions and affiliated research centers.Project goals include the effective analysis of complex structures of novel crystalline samples synthesized from solid-state techniques by which defects can be induced via substitution or by a post-synthesis reduction step. X-ray diffraction will be used as an essential technique to monitor and identify phases within the synthetic process and gives insight to the completion of the process. The subsequent properties analyzed as a result of this technique gives valuable insight regarding the changes based on the sample’s composition, structure, stability, and local environment of atoms. Refined bond distances and angles generated from Rietveld analysis provided by the instrument will be used to provide bond valence sums and global instability indices for synthetic products and compared with computationally modeled bond valence values for optimization leading to higher impact peer-reviewed publications.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.

传统黑人学院和大学 - 本科生计划 (HBCU-UP) 为加强 HBCU 的 STEM 本科教育和研究提供支持。该项目的重点是购买 X 射线衍射仪，以增强化学、法医学领域的教学和研究能力。生物学、法医化学和生物医学工程项目中代表性不足的学生将有机会使用主要仪器进行研究，并利用该技术回答问题。通过将该技术纳入学位课程课程，加强他们的研究背景并了解理论与应用之间的联系。这项努力将有助于学生为 STEM 学科的劳动力和/或高级学位课程做好准备，并与其他机构建立本地合作。项目目标包括有效分析通过固态技术合成的新型晶体样品的复杂结构，通过取代或通过合成后还原步骤可诱导缺陷。的基本技术监控和识别合成过程中的阶段，并深入了解该过程的完成情况，通过该技术分析的后续特性可以提供有关基于样品的成分、结构、稳定性和原子局部环境的变化的宝贵见解。该仪器提供的 Rietveld 分析生成的精细键距和角度将用于提供合成产品的键价总和和全局不稳定性指数，并与计算建模的键价值进行比较以进行优化，从而产生更高影响力的同行评审出版物。奖项反映通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。