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才华横溢的研究员阿米特·库马尔·萨卡博士，并为他提供完美的平台，让他成为一名独立研究员，以开展有影响力的研究来解决现实世界的问题。在我们现在生活的数字世界中，我们正在以指数方式创建越来越多的数据 - 我们只是耗尽了存储空间。为了应对这一挑战，BILDS将开发一种创新、经济实惠且与工业相关的下一代材料技术，用于数据存储应用。将开发具有极小（亚5纳米）域的嵌段共聚物-离子液体（BCP-IL）复合材料使用纳米光刻技术为现有大型数据中心制造具有高数据存储密度（面密度）的高效数据存储设备，从而显着减少建造新的大型设施的需要。将建造一个定制的钻机，以促进复杂的原位掠入射小角度 X 射线散射 (GISAXS) 实验，以揭示形成这些新材料的稳健设计规则 - 这是一项重大的技术进步，将能够更加无缝地过渡到工业。具体的研究目标（RO）是： RO1- 研究员的培训以及研究员和每位主持人之间的双向知识转移； RO2 - 新型工业相关 BCP-IL 配对的合成、表征和相分离行为； RO3 - 制造具有增强纳米级分辨率（亚 5 纳米）的 BCP-IL 材料，用于纳米图案化技术；RO4 - 构建用于原位 GISAXS 研究的新装置，以阐明纳米图案化的最佳条件。 BILDS 联盟是多学科和跨部门的，为实现这些雄心勃勃的 RO 而精心组建：来自阿斯顿大学（英国）、Babes-Bolyai 大学（罗马尼亚）和 Diamond Light Source（英国）的学术主持人，以及来自巴斯夫（德国）和专业计算机中心的工业顾问（SCC）。