Block copolymers and Ionic Liquids for Data Storage (BILDS)

用于数据存储的嵌段共聚物和离子液体 (BILDS)

• 批准号: EP/X021386/1
• 负责人: Matthew Derry
• 金额: $ 26万
• 依托单位: Aston University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX021386%2F1
• 关键词: Block; copolymers; Ionic; Liquids; Data

This carefully designed training program will transform a talented Fellow, Dr Amit Kumar Sarkar, and provide him the perfect platformto become an independent researcher to develop impactful research to address real world issues. In the digital world that we nowlive, we are creating more and more data exponentially - we are simply running out of storage space. To tackle this challenge, BILDSwill develop an innovative, affordable, and industrially relevant next-generation material technology for data storage applications.Block copolymer-ionic liquid (BCP-IL) composite materials with extremely small (sub-5 nm) domains will be developed for use innanolithography techniques used to fabricate efficient data storage devices with high data storage density (areal density) for existinglarge-scale data centers, thus significantly reducing the need to construct new large-scale facilities. A custom-made rig will beconstructed to facilitate sophisticated in situ grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS) experiments to uncover robustdesign rules for the formation of these new materials - a significant technical advancement that will enable a more seamlesstransition to industry. The specific research objectives (ROs) are: RO1- Training of the Fellow and two-way knowledge transferbetween the Fellow and each Host; RO2 - Synthesis, characterization, and phase separation behavior of novel, industrially relevantBCP-IL pairings; RO3 - Fabricate BCP-IL materials with enhanced nanoscale resolution (sub-5nm) for nanopatterning technology;RO4 - Construct new rig for in situ GISAXS studies to elucidate optimal conditions for nanopatterning. The BILDS consortium ismultidisciplinary & intersectoral, scrupulously assembled to achieve these ambitious ROs: academic hosts from Aston University (UK),Babes-Bolyai University (Romania) and Diamond Light Source (UK), plus industrial advisors from BASF (Germany) and SpecialistComputer Centers (SCC).

这项精心设计的培训计划将改变一位才华横溢的研究员Amit Kumar Sarkar博士，并为他提供了一个完美的平台，成为独立的研究人员，以开发有影响力的研究来解决现实世界问题。在我们现在的数字世界中，我们正在逐步创建越来越多的数据 - 我们只是用尽了存储空间。 To tackle this challenge, BILDSwill develop an innovative, affordable, and industrially relevant next-generation material technology for data storage applications.Block copolymer-ionic liquid (BCP-IL) composite materials with extremely small (sub-5 nm) domains will be developed for use innanolithography techniques used to fabricate efficient data storage devices with high data storage density (areal density) for existinglarge-scale data centers, thus significantly减少建造新的大型设施的需求。定制的钻机将构建，以促进精致的原位放牧式X射线散射（GISAXS）实验，以揭示这些新材料形成的强大设计规则 - 这是一个重大的技术进步，将使对行业进行更无缝的延伸。具体的研究目标（ROS）是：RO1-对同伴和每个主持人之间的培训和双向知识转移； RO2-新型，工业相关的构成，表征和相分离行为； RO3-用于纳米图案技术的纳米级分辨率增强的BCP -IL材料； RO4-为原位Gisaxs研究构建新的钻机，以阐明纳米图案的最佳条件。 BILDS联盟ISMULTIDORIDICARION＆INTERECERAL，仔细组装以实现这些雄心勃勃的ROS：来自阿斯顿大学（英国），巴布斯 - 波利亚大学（罗马尼亚）和钻石光源（英国）的学术主持人，以及来自巴斯夫（德国）的工业顾问（德国）和专业科学中心（SCC）。