Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Polymer Interfaces

该提案旨在在理海大学建立聚合物界面产学合作研究中心。 该中心的重点是发展对聚合物和基材之间的界面区域的结构、动态、动力学和能量特征的分子水平理解。 这将通过使用激光光散射、反气相色谱、阻抗光谱、XPS、拉曼、核磁共振、FTIR 等对工业相关模型/聚合物基底系统进行详细表征来完成。航空航天、石化和微电子行业的公司将从这些研究中受益。 项目经理建议连续奖励 50,000 美元，为期五年。 每 12 个月结束时，项目经理和/或工程中心部门主任将根据多项标准审查中心的进展情况，包括以下内容： 1) 大学与工业界互动与合作的发展程度； 2）支持基础扩大的程度； 3) 强有力的研究计划的发展程度。 如果审查令人满意，项目经理将建议支持下一期的持续资助。

This proposal is for the establishment of an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Polymer Interfaces at Lehigh University. The focus of the Center is on developing a molecular level understanding of the structural, dynamic, kinetic, and energetic characteristics of the interphase region between a polymer and substrate. This will be accomplished through detailed characterization of industrially relevant model/polymer substrate systems using laser light scattering, inverse gas chromotography, impedance specroscopy, XPS, Raman, NMR, FTIR etc. Companies from the aerospace, petrochemical and microelectronic industries will profit from these studies. The Program Manager recommends a continuing award for $50,000 for a five-year period. Near the end of each 12 month period the Program Manager and/or the Director of the Engineering Centers Division will review the progress of the Center on a number of criteria, including the following: 1) the extent to which the university-industry interaction and collaboration is developing; 2) the extent to which the support base is expanding; 3) the extent to which a robust research program is developing. If the review is satisfactory, the Program Manager will recommend support of the next period of this continuing award.