Materials Research Laboratory

该奖项是为了表彰在伊利诺伊大学香槟分校Myron B.Salamon博士的指导下对材料研究实验室(MRL)的重新支持。MRL由来自六个学术部门的约40名教职员工组成；55名研究生和7名博士后研究助理也得到了支持。研究工作集中在几个主要主要领域的互动、多学科研究项目上。MRL还运营着支撑大学材料研究工作的主要中央设施，并与校园内的其他单位合作维护一些研究服务设施。在MRL推力区域研究方面，与行业和政府实验室有互动。计划中的研究包括光学半导体和异质结构、先进催化材料、无序材料的亚稳性和动力学以及先进计算材料研究等主要推动领域。这一MRL为互动研究提供了一个极好的环境。它的中央研究设施是首屈一指的，而且得到了有效的管理。最近在校园内建立的与材料研究相辅相成的主要研究中心提供了新的机会，这一点得到了MRL的充分认可。许多教员在他们自己的研究领域都很出色；他们聚集了一批令人敬畏的人才，以强烈的互动方式在材料研究中的一些重要问题上发挥作用。拟议预算提供了足够的资源，以支持在光学半导体和异质结构以及先进计算材料研究方面的拟议努力；在先进催化材料领域迅速起步；支持无序材料动力学方面的推力研究；并为新举措提供适当的启动资金。它还规定继续大力支持仪器设备和中央研究设施。

This award is for renewed support of the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) under the direction of Dr. Myron B. Salamon at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The MRL is comprised of about 40 faculty members from six academic departments; 55 graduate students and 7 postdoctoral research associates are also supported. The research effort is concentrated on interactive, multidisciplinary research projects in several major thrust areas. The MRL also operates major central facilities that underpin materials research efforts at the University, and maintains a number of research service facilities in collaboration with other units on campus. There are interactions with industry and government laboratories in relation to MRL thrust area research. The planned research includes major thrust areas in optical semiconductors and heterostructures, advanced catalytic materials, metastability and dynamics of disordered materials, and advanced computational materials research. This MRL provides a superb environment for interactive research. Its central research facilities are second to none and it is effectively managed. The recent establishment on campus of major research centers in fields that complement materials research provides new opportunities that are fully recognized by the MRL. Many of the faculty are outstanding in their own areas of research; together they bring a formidable array of talent to bear in a strongly interactive manner on a number of important problems in materials research. The recommended budget provides adequate resources to support the proposed efforts in optical semiconductors and heterostructures and in advanced computational materials research; to make a rapid start in the area of advanced catalytic materials; to support thrust research in the dynamics of disordered materials; and to provide appropriate seed funding for new initiatives. It also provides for continuing strong support of instrumentation and central research facilities.