US-Federal Republic of Germany Joint Seminar on Current Developments in Polymer Science; Grossen Ledder, FRG; September 9-14, 1990

美国-德意志联邦共和国高分子科学当前发展联合研讨会；

• 批准号: 9000152
• 负责人: Dale Pearson
• 金额: $ 1.13万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-08-15 至 1991-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9000152&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Federal; Republic; Germany; Joint

This award supports the participation of approximately ten young U.S. polymer scientists in a joint workshop with potential collaborators from the Federal Republic of Germany. Several industrial participants are expected, at their own expense. The meeting was co-organized by Dale S. Pearson of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Edwin L. Thomas of MIT together with Joachim Wendorff of the German Plastics Institute, Darmstadt, and Hans Kricheldorf from the Department of Applied and Macro- molecular Chemistry, University of Hamburg. The workshop will be held in a small village near Cologne, and will conclude with a tour and panel discussion at the new Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research at Mainz, FRG. This is a major new facility which indicates the strong interest of the German government and scientific community in polymer science. Prior bilateral meetings in this field (over three years ago and with different participants) resulted in a number of joint research projects, publications and arrangements for sabbaticals in Germany and the U.S. The small size of the meeting is particularly conducive for initiating close professional relationships among people who have not had an opportunity to meet before. The primary objective of the workshop is to address critical areas of polymer science through a well balanced program that includes contributions from chemistry, physics, materials science, and engineering. Presentations will be about evenly divided among polymer synthesis and modification, polymer characterization, and polymer theory. Particular emphasis will be given to two areas: synthetic research on electroactive polymers, a topic that has fostered intense collaboration between the physics and chemistry communities, and the more general but rapidly expanding area of polymer theory. Advances in theoretical concepts coupled with the increased availability of supercomputers are having a major impact on the way polymer scientists view macromolecular behavior. In addition, the participants will review progress in several areas included in previous meetings, such as liquid crystalline polymers, self-organizing systems, and polymer interfaces and surfaces. German research in polymer dynamics and surface characterization is among the best in the world due to their excellent facilities for neutron and X-ray scattering studies and some top-notch people.

该奖项支持大约十位美国聚合物科学家参加联合研讨会的参与，并与来自德意志联邦共和国的潜在合作者参与。 期望有几个工业参与者自费。 这次会议由加利福尼亚大学圣塔芭芭拉分校的戴尔·S·皮尔森（Dale S. 该研讨会将在科隆附近的一个小村庄举行，并将在FRG Mainz的新Max Planck聚合物研究所进行游览和小组讨论。 这是一个主要的新设施，表明德国政府和科学界对聚合物科学的兴趣很大。 该领域的以前的双边会议（三年前和不同的参与者）导致了许多联合研究项目，出版物和安排在德国和美国的休假，这次会议的小规模尤其有利于在没有机会见面的人之间建立亲密的专业关系。 研讨会的主要目的是通过一个均衡的计划来解决聚合物科学的关键领域，其中包括化学，物理，材料科学和工程的贡献。 演示将在聚合物合成和修饰，聚合物表征和聚合物理论之间均匀分裂。 将特别强调两个领域：关于电活性聚合物的合成研究，该主题促进了物理和化学群落之间的强烈合作，以及更一般但迅速扩展的聚合物理论领域。 理论概念的进步以及超级计算机的可用性增加对聚合物科学家看待大分子行为的方式产生了重大影响。 此外，参与者将审查先前会议中包括的几个领域的进度，例如液晶聚合物，自组织系统以及聚合物界面和表面。 德国在聚合物动力学和表面表征方面的研究是世界上最好的，因为它们在中子和X射线散射研究方面以及一些一流的人。