U.S.-France Cooperative Research: Self-Organization in Oxide Glasses

0138707 Boolchand这个为期三年的美法材料研究合作奖涉及辛辛那提大学和皮埃尔和玛丽居里大学（巴黎六）以及法国国家科学研究中心（CNRS）奥尔良高T实验室的研究人员和学生。 美国的普尼特·布尔钱德（Punit Boolchand）和法国的理查德·克纳（Richard Kerner）领导着这个由理论家和实验家组成的团队。 这项研究涉及氧化物玻璃的结构研究。 其目的是开发模型来预测热性能和结构性能。碱金属硅酸盐玻璃将准备;他们的热和光谱性能进行比较和对比;和约束和随机团聚理论应用于实验结果。 美国研究人员为这次合作带来了玻璃合成、光谱学和约束理论方面的专业知识。 法国在玻璃结构建模方面的理论专业知识和奥尔良的高温玻璃制备设施对此进行了补充。该奖项代表了美国方面向NSF和CNRS提出的平行建议。 NSF将为美国研究人员和研究生提供旅费和生活费。 CNRS将支持法国研究人员和研究生访问美国。这项研究将促进对氧化物玻璃的热特性和结构特性的理解，以及它们作为光通信和硅微电子器件制造用石英光纤的商业应用。 该项目将推进美国和法国研究生的博士论文研究，他们将积极参与氧化物玻璃的合成，表征和实验结果的分析。

0138707BoolchandThis three-year award for US-France collaboration in materials research involves researchers and students at the University of Cincinnati and at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI) and the High-T Laboratory in Orleans of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Punit Boolchand in the US and Richard Kerner in France lead this team of theorists and experimentalists. The research addresses structural studies of oxide glasses. The objective is to develop models to predict thermal and structural properties. Alkali silicate glasses will be prepared; their thermal and spectroscopic properties compared and contrasted; and constraint and stochastic agglomeration theories applied to the experimental results. The US investigators bring to this collaboration expertise in synthesis of glasses and spectroscopy and constraint theory. This is complemented by French theoretical expertise in modeling glass structure and access to high temperature glass preparation facilities in Orleans. This award represents the US side of parallel proposals to the NSF and the CNRS. NSF will cover travel funds and living expenses for the US investigators and graduate students. CNRS will support visits by French researchers and graduate students to the United States. The research will advance understanding of the thermal and structural properties of oxide glasses and their commercial applications as silica fibers for optical communications and for silicon microelectronic device fabrication. The project will advance doctoral thesis research of US and French graduate students, who will actively participate in the synthesis, characterization of oxide glasses, and analysis of experimental results.