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

0138707Boolchand这个为期三年的美法合作材料研究奖项涉及辛辛那提大学、皮埃尔和玛丽·居里大学(巴黎六世)以及法国国家科学研究中心(CNRS)奥尔良的High-T实验室的研究人员和学生。美国的普尼特·布尔昌德和法国的理查德·科纳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。其目的是开发预测热学和结构性能的模型。将制备碱硅酸盐玻璃；比较和对比它们的热学和光谱性质；并将约束和随机团聚理论应用于实验结果。美国调查人员为这次合作带来了玻璃合成、光谱和约束理论方面的专业知识。此外，法国在建模玻璃结构和进入奥尔良高温玻璃制备设施方面的理论专业知识也起到了补充作用。这一奖项代表了美国方面对NSF和CNRS的平行提议。NSF将支付美国调查人员和研究生的旅费和生活费。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和结构特性及其作为光通信和硅微电子器件制造的二氧化硅光纤的商业应用的理解。该项目将促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.