U.S.-Japan Workshop: New Aspects of Photoresponsive Materials

9602876托尔伯特该奖项支持10名美国学者参加1996年11月4日至8日在加利福尼亚州卡特琳娜岛会议中心举行的美日关于光响应材料新方面的研讨会。联合组织者是亚特兰大佐治亚理工学院的Laren Tolbert教授和Gary Schuster教授，以及九州大学的Masahiro Irie教授。选定拟议研讨会的主题是为了突出在用光改变材料性能方面取得的最新进展。这种材料可用于光电设备，如成像、存储和显示设备，以及模拟生命系统的光驱动响应的所谓“智能”材料。这些变化包括颜色的变化(“光致变色”)以及导致实际运动的变化(“光学机械”)。当然，最终的光驱动生物反应是光合作用，这代表了两国持续的活动重点。美国和日本都在这些领域取得了根本性的发现，这两个群体之间加强思想和信息交流显然对保持高水平的智力产出至关重要。美国的参与者在光化学、光物理和材料科学领域提供了广泛的专业知识和地理代表性，并被选为美国最活跃的研究人员，同时提供了不同的兴趣。因此，这项建议实现了该计划通过国际合作交流和转让科学知识的目标。***

9602876 Tolbert This award supports the participation of 10 U.S. academic participants in a U.S.-Japan seminar on New Aspects of Photoresponsive Materials, to be held at the Catalina Island Conference Center, California, from November 4-8, 1996. The co-organizers are Professors Laren Tolbert and Gary Schuster of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and Professor Masahiro Irie of Kyushu University. The theme of the proposed seminar was chosen in order to highlight recent advances in the use of light to bring about changes in the properties of materials. Such materials may be used in optoelectronic devices, such as imaging, memory, and display devices, as well as so-called "smart" materials which mimic the light-driven responses of living systems. These include changes in color ("photochromics") as well as changes leading to actual motion ("optomechanics"). Of course, the ultimate light-driven biological response is photosynthesis, and this represents a continuing focus of activity in both countries. Fundamental discoveries in each of these areas are being made both in U.S. and in Japan, and increased exchange of ideas and information between these two groups is clearly essential to maintaining a high level of intellectual output. The U.S. participants provide a broad cross section of expertise and geographical representation in the area of photochemistry, photophysics, and materials science, and were selected on the basis of being the most active researchers in the U. S. while providing a diverse range of interests. Therefore, this proposal fulfills the objectives of the Program in its exchange and transfer of scientific knowledge through international collaboration. ***