Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures

人们对开发用于各种应用的先进陶瓷和创新复合材料非常感兴趣，包括结构部件，节能环保和热障以及高性能电子和传感器材料。结构陶瓷具有独特的性能，可在先进的高温应用（柴油发动机、涡轮机）中发挥巨大优势。创新的陶瓷复合材料也在开发中，用于高温应用，耐磨材料，新型传感器和智能结构应用。智能陶瓷和压电陶瓷贴片传感器可以附着在结构的外表面，或直接嵌入材料中，以提供结构行为的原位测量。薄膜氧化物基结构和铁电钙钛矿是制造传感器、换能器、纳米磁性、滤波器和非易失性存储器等电子器件所必需的。本延续提案侧重于利用包括纳米工程在内的创新材料加工方法以协同方式影响先进结构陶瓷和复合材料以及电子陶瓷材料的基础科学问题。先进材料和智能结构中心（CAMSS）特别感兴趣的子项目领域包括：o纳米工程和表面工程涂层和材料（功能梯度涂层、燃料电池材料、环境和热障涂层以及金属陶瓷连接）o纳米复合材料和其他创新复合材料（纳米结构陶瓷复合材料涂层、自增强Si 3 N4复合材料、纳米磁性材料和先进氧化物基纤维复合材料）和电子和智能材料与结构（先进电子材料，新型传感器材料和健康监测-智能结构）拟议的中心延续活动将在纳米结构和其他先进材料的科学和技术方面发展强大的研究和教育计划。纳米科学和技术有望彻底改变下一代技术，从结构材料到智能结构，从微电子到医学。为了将美国工业战略性地定位在领导地位，我们需要为学生提供纳米和其他创新工程领域所需的多学科技能。我们寻求建立一个跨学科的基础设施，超越部门的障碍，并有助于在先进材料和智能结构这一重要领域的研究和教育的整合。该计划的主要目标是：（1）继续促进先进材料工程作为一个统一的研究和教育学科;（2）继续开发多学科课程，培养新一代的研究生;和（3）继续招募优秀的本科生和研究生从代表性不足的群体进入这一领域的巨大技术重要性。以上列出的该延续提案的所有子项目领域将以连贯的方式强调先进和纳米晶材料的以下方面，利用NC A T SU，NCSU，ORNL，工业和其他教育合作伙伴的研究团队的互补技能：1）合成和加工; 2）表征（宏观，微观和纳米）; 3）结构-性能相关性;和4）建模。与NSF/CREST、NCSU-NSF/原子分辨率电子显微镜设施、NSF/ERC -佛罗里达大学（连通性）和ORNL/高温材料实验室设施相关的研究设施将在这些学生的研究培训中发挥关键作用。在NCSU Co-PI（JN）的指导下，NCSU的NSF原子分辨率TEM设施代表了该国独特的研究设施，学生可以接受原子级表征技术的培训，这些技术对于新型材料和结构的纳米工程至关重要。上述研究设施（机械测试设备、创新加工设施和各种表征设施）将提供一个独特的平台，促进多学科方法，以整合研究生教育和研究，招收少数民族研究生和本科生，并在这一至关重要的领域引入新的课程。这些基础研究的结果将用于开发解释新型先进材料和纳米结构材料的不寻常特性的模型，这些活动的最终目标是开发设计具有独特特性的先进和新型纳米结构材料的预测工具，从而建立“通过设计创造材料”的知识库。作为中心活动的一部分，针对当地和全球社区的强有力的外联和技术转让工作也将继续进行。

There is a keen interest in developing advanced ceramics and innovative composites for a wide variety of applications including structural components, energy-efficient environmental and thermal barriers, and high performance electronic and sensor materials. Structural ceramics have unique properties that can be used to great advantage in advanced high temperature applications (diesel engines, turbines). Innovative ceramic composites are also being developed for use in high-temperature applications, wear resistant materials, and novel sensor and smart structure applications. Smart ceramics and piezo ceramic patch sensors may be attached to the external surfaces of structures, or directly embedded within materials to provide in-situ measurements of structural behavior. Thin film oxide-based structures and ferroelectric perovskites, are needed for fabrication of electronic devices such as sensors, transducers, nanomagnetics, filters and non-volatile memories.This continuation proposal focuses on the basic science issues affecting both advanced structural ceramics and composites and electronic ceramic materials in a synergistic manner using innovative materials processing methods including nanoengineering. The subproject areas of particular interest to the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures (CAMSS) include:o Nanoengineered and surface engineered coatings and materials (functionally gradient coatings, fuel cell materials,environmental and thermal barrier coatings, and metal-ceramic joining)o Nanocomposites and other innovative composites (nanostructured ceramic composite coatings, self-reinforced Si3N4 composites, nanomagnetics, and advanced oxide based fiber composites) ando Electronic and smart materials and structures (advanced electronic materials, novel sensor materials and health monitoring-smart structures)The proposed center continuation activity will develop strong research and education programs in the science and technology of nanostructured and other advanced materials. Nanoscale science and technology is expected to revolutionize next-generation technology ranging from structural materials to smart structures, microelectronics tomedicine. To position US industry strategically in a leadership role, we need to equip students with the multidisciplinary skills needed for nano and other innovative engineering fields. We seek to create a crossdisciplinary infrastructure that transcends departmental barriers and lends itself to the integration of research and education in this vital field of advanced materials and smart structures. The primary goals of this program are: (1) continue to promote advanced materials engineering as a unifying research and education discipline; (2) continue to develop multidisciplinary curricula for training the new generation of graduate students; and (3) continue to recruit talented undergraduate and graduate students from underrepresented groups into this field of immense technological importance. All the subproject areas of this continuation proposal listed above will emphasize the following aspects of advanced and nanocrystalline materials in a coherent way, utilizing the complementary skills of the research teams at NC A&T SU, NCSU, ORNL, industry and other educational partners: 1) synthesis and processing; 2) characterization (macro, micro and nano); 3) structure-property correlations; and 4) modeling. Research facilities associated with NSF/CREST, NCSU-NSF/Atomic Resolution Electron Microscope Facility, NSF/ERC -University of Florida (connectivity) and the ORNL/ High Temperature Materials Laboratory facilities will play a pivotal role in the research based training of these students. The NSF Atomic Resolution TEM Facility at NCSU under the direction of NCSU Co-PI (JN) represents a unique research facility in the country, where students can be trained in atomic-level characterization techniques that are essential for nanoengineering of novel materialsand structures. The above research facilities (mechanical test equipment, innovative processing facilities and various characterization facilities) will provide a unique platform to foster multidisciplinary approaches for integrating graduate education and research, recruiting minority graduate and undergraduate students, and introducing new course curricula in this field of vital importance. The results of these fundamental studies will be used to develop models to explain novel advanced materials and unusual properties of the nanostructured materials.The eventual aim of these activities will be to develop predictive tools for designing advanced and novel nanostructured materials with unique properties so that a knowledge base for "creating materials by design" will be established. Strong outreach and technical transfer efforts targeted towards the local and global community will also continue as a part of the center activity.