CAREER: Combinatorially-Engineered Interfaces for Inorganic Nanostructures

大卫博士W.赖特，化学系，迪克讷大学是由化学，国家科学基金会的部门的无机，生物无机和有机化学计划的支持下，他的工作职业奖，其主要重点是无机纳米结构的功能界面的发展。具体而言，主要目标是使用合成组合方法来设计，合成和表征支架的“分子工具箱”，用于合成受生物矿化过程启发的新材料。根据研究活动的多学科性质，该奖项还支持高年级本科生的综合实验室概念的发展和一年级研究生的实习。在这种多学科研究跨越材料科学，环境，化学，生物学和纳米技术等领域的程度上，研究生和博士后研究员将接受不同学科和分支学科的培训。综合实验室的概念和教学目标，让学生“用他们的头思考，用他们的手做”将提供本科生和研究生的基本技能和哲学，这将使他们接触到独立研究的创新方法。

Dr. David W. Wright, Department of Chemistry, Duquesne University is supported by the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program of the Division of Chemistry, National Science Foundation, for his work under a Career Award whose principal focus is the development of functional interfaces for inorganic nanostructures. Specifically, the main objective is the use of synthetic combinatorial approaches to design, synthesize and characterize a "molecular toolbox" of scaffolds for the synthesis of new materials inspired by biomineralization processes. Following the multidisciplinary nature of the research activities, the award also supports development of an integrated laboratory concept for upper-class undergraduates and a practicum for first year graduate students.To the extent that this multidisciplinary research cuts across such fields as material science, the environment, chemistry, biology and nanotechnology, graduate students and post-doctoral associates will be trained in diversified disciplines and sub-disciplines. The integrated laboratory concept and the pedagogical goal to have students "think with their heads and do with their hands" will provide undergraduate and graduate students with basic skills and a philosophy that will expose them to innovative approaches for independent research.