Experimental Equipment Call for Imperial College London
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
This proposal seeks investment in key items of experimental equipment to a broad range of researchers from across the Engineering and Physical Sciences domains. Investment is also sought to refresh or update of existing equipment. It is targeted specifically at key research strengths, including advanced materials and in particular surface and interface characterisation of nanomaterials. Other target areas are high-speed imaging, optic fabrication, biomedical engineering and core imaging technologies.
Planned Impact
It is intended that the funding provides as much added value and impact as possible.
Firstly, researchers benefiting from experience of working on facilities at the frontiers of research will be more highly skilled.
Secondly, many of the research teams benefiting from the enhanced facilities are already engaging with end-users or they are working on collaborative grants with industrial partners. The impact will therefore occur through day-to-day interactions on these projects, with end-users benefiting from increased quality of outcomes resulting from the enhanced equipment base.
The multidisciplinary nature of these bundles means that researchers will need to collaborate well in order to avoid multiple duplication of equipment. If successful, the new equipment funded through this award will be added to our institutional Research Facilities Directory - an on line database available to all members of College and will ensure maximum usage of equipment and reduce duplication.
IP that may arise through experiments performed on the equipment will be dealt with through the usual channels at Imperial and if any intellectual property requires protection then IC innovations will handle the formal patenting activities.
Firstly, researchers benefiting from experience of working on facilities at the frontiers of research will be more highly skilled.
Secondly, many of the research teams benefiting from the enhanced facilities are already engaging with end-users or they are working on collaborative grants with industrial partners. The impact will therefore occur through day-to-day interactions on these projects, with end-users benefiting from increased quality of outcomes resulting from the enhanced equipment base.
The multidisciplinary nature of these bundles means that researchers will need to collaborate well in order to avoid multiple duplication of equipment. If successful, the new equipment funded through this award will be added to our institutional Research Facilities Directory - an on line database available to all members of College and will ensure maximum usage of equipment and reduce duplication.
IP that may arise through experiments performed on the equipment will be dealt with through the usual channels at Imperial and if any intellectual property requires protection then IC innovations will handle the formal patenting activities.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Donal Bradley (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
El-Shinawi H
(2018)
NASICON LiM 2 (PO 4 ) 3 electrolyte (M = Zr) and electrode (M = Ti) materials for all solid-state Li-ion batteries with high total conductivity and low interfacial resistance
in Journal of Materials Chemistry A
García-Trenco A
(2018)
PdIn intermetallic nanoparticles for the Hydrogenation of CO2 to Methanol
in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
García-Trenco A
(2017)
Pd 2 Ga-Based Colloids as Highly Active Catalysts for the Hydrogenation of CO 2 to Methanol
in ACS Catalysis
Kim N
(2020)
Surface enhanced Raman scattering artificial nose for high dimensionality fingerprinting
in Nature Communications
Mielewczyk-Gryn A
(2019)
Water uptake analysis of acceptor-doped lanthanum orthoniobates
in Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
Pike S
(2017)
Colloidal Cu/ZnO catalysts for the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol: investigating catalyst preparation and ligand effects
in Catalysis Science & Technology
Pramana S
(2018)
Crystal structure and surface characteristics of Sr-doped GdBaCo 2 O 6-d double perovskites: oxygen evolution reaction and conductivity
in Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Regoutz A
(2018)
A novel laboratory-based hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy system.
in The Review of scientific instruments
Tetzner K
(2017)
Sub-second photonic processing of solution-deposited single layer and heterojunction metal oxide thin-film transistors using a high-power xenon flash lamp
in Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Twyman N
(2019)
Rapid photonic curing of solution-processed In2O3 layers on flexible substrates
in Applied Surface Science
| Description | The key provision of this award was a range of new underpinning research capability. The key findings are therefore multi-faceted and cover the broadest range of science and engineering disciplines. Fundamentally the award has supported the development of well in excess of 100 researchers at all levels from the disciplines across the full range of departments at Imperial College. In addition we have engaged with numerous industry partners, supported the work of our Centres for Doctoral Training, in both research and training, and provided data to support numerous research publications, spin-out companies and further funding applications. There is no single discovery or piece of work that can be highlighted as the nature of the award was to provide underpinning capability. |
| Exploitation Route | The data and experience of operating these advanced characterisation instruments provides a model for facilities in the most effective operation of research infrastructure, in the most effective ways of interacting with users (training, costing, technique development) and in the applicability of certain techniques to a range of technical problems. |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Chemicals,Education,Electronics,Energy,Environment,Healthcare |
| Description | The equipment that was procured through this funding stream has underpinned research across the college since its installation and has resulted in numerous PhD and PDRA fellows receiving training and publishing their data. This has led to collaborations with numerous industries and hence the impact is multi sectoral, but virtually impossible to quantify. The most significant impact is therefore in the education and training of users, but each of the pieces of equipment have contributed to new findings across many industry sectors. Indeed the availability of this equipment has been central to the success of the department of materials in securing significant subsequent research awards that rely on the data that is generated by these instruments, The broad and underpinning nature of the equipment means that attributing individual contributions is impossible. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Education,Energy,Environment,Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal |