Capital Award for Core Equipment at Durham University

杜伦大学核心设备资本奖

• 批准号: EP/T024275/1
• 负责人: Colin Bain
• 金额: $ 35.04万
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FT024275%2F1
• 关键词: Capital; Award; Core; Equipment; Durham

This grant provides support for underpinning equipment for research in chemistry, physics and materials science. By increasing throughput of samples, decreasing downtime due to equipment failure and benefitting from improvements in performance of modern instruments, the new equipment will lead to greater efficiency, higher performance and lower costs. Four pieces of instrumentation will be acquired.Mass spectrometry is a core technique underpinning research in synthetic chemistry. The requested instrument replaces a current spectrometer at the end of its life and provides automated spectra of samples initially separated by high pressure liquid chromatography. UV absorption spectra are provided alongside the mass distribution of the samples. This system allows rapid assessment of samples with enhanced results being available due to the new system.'Energy dispersive analysis of X-rays' (EDX) enables the chemical composition of a sample within an electron microscope to be determined. This detector will be added to the current focused ion beam instrument which as well as being able to image samples can also "machine" the sample with micron precision. With this attachment as the machining is taking place the user will be able to analyse the material being ablated. In certain structured samples this will enable more precise machining as well as mapping information on the local composition of samples.Microwave ovens are a familiar gadget in every kitchen and microwaves can also be used to heat up chemical reactions. Microwave reactors will soon be as common in a chemistry laboratory as in the kitchen. This grant will enable the purchase of a microwave reactor to support a range of projects in synthetic chemistry and materials science and be of particular benefit to early-career researchers.NMR is a standard method that is used by synthetic chemists to ensure that they have produced the correct chemical and to determine its purity at the end of chemical synthesis. In an active research department such analysis is provided as a service with samples being left for analysis. The purchase here is for a robotic handling system which will take the sample and then run a spectrum minimising the sample handling time and maximising the throughput of the instrument. The autosampler will enable the NMR spectrometer to run up to 60,000 spectra per year.

该赠款为化学，物理和材料科学研究的基础设备提供了支持。通过增加样品的吞吐量，由于设备故障而减少停机时间并受益于现代仪器的性能的改善，新设备将提高效率更高，性能更高和成本降低。质谱法是合成化学研究基础研究的核心技术。所请求的仪器在其寿命结束时取代了当前的光谱仪，并提供了最初由高压液相色谱分离的样品的自动光谱。与样品的质量分布一起提供了紫外吸收光谱。该系统允许快速评估由于新系统而获得的结果。“ X射线的Energy分散分析”（EDX）可以确定电子显微镜中样品的化学组成。该检测器将被添加到当前聚焦的离子束仪器中，并能够以微米精度“机器”样品“机器”。随着加工的进行，用户将能够分析正在消融的材料。在某些结构化样品中，这将实现更精确的加工以及绘制有关样品局部组成的信息。Microwave烤箱是每个厨房中熟悉的小工具，也可以使用微波炉来加热化学反应。微波反应堆在化学实验室中很快将与厨房一样普遍。该赠款将使购买微波反应堆能够支持合成化学和材料科学领域的一系列项目，并特别受益于早期研究人员。NMR是一种标准方法，由合成化学家使用，以确保他们已经生产正确的化学物质并确定化学合成结束时其纯度。在活跃的研究部门中，提供了一种服务，作为一项服务，并保留样本进行分析。这里的购买是用于机器人处理系统的，该系统将采用样品，然后运行频谱，以最大程度地减少样品处理时间并最大程度地提高仪器的吞吐量。 AutoSampler将使NMR光谱仪每年高达60,000个光谱。