IGERT: Multiscale Phenomena in Soft Materials

IGERT：软材料中的多尺度现象

• 批准号: 0221589
• 负责人: Morton Denn
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: CUNY City College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-12-01 至 2010-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0221589&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Multiscale; Phenomena; Soft; Materials

This proposal describes an inter-institutional IGERT program in soft materials to be offered jointly at City College of CUNY and Columbia University, which are in close proximity. De Gennes defines soft materials as organic media that organize on supramolecular length scales via weak associative interactions. Examples include thin polymeric films for sensors, organic blends for electronic displays, and natural and artificial tissue, spanning the range from complex fluids to soft solids. They are intrinsically multi-scale, molecular to macroscopic. A stunning variety of structures and morphologies can emerge, enabling a wide range of new technologies, and all scales impact processing and use. The Ph.D. program will be built around joint seminars, an industrial internship, collaborative thesis research, and a core of joint course offerings, including two new laboratory courses. The research will be in three complementary areas: effects of confinement on polymer statics and dynamics, chemical and physical patterning, and multi-scale phenomena in bio-related materials. The proposed core curriculum will be taken in addition to the core disciplinary requirements in the student's major department. Our proposal is consistent with existing Ph.D. requirements for all five participating departments, and does not add in any way to the degree requirements or faculty teaching loads; the soft materials courses will satisfy existing elective requirements, but will enable the students to focus these electives within a coordinated program. The proposed collaborative program is unique in two respects: First, it leverages the intellectual and material resources of two neighboring, urban, public/private institutions with complementary faculty and diverse student bodies. Second, it creates a unique, synergistic environment for research and graduate education in a niche area that is at the heart of numerous technologies essential to industries based in the greater New York regional area.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the fifth year of the program, awards are being made to twenty-one institutions for programs that collectively span the areas of science and engineering supported by NSF.

该提案描述了一个机构间IGERT软材料计划，将在城市大学城市学院和哥伦比亚大学，这是在附近联合提供。De Gennes将软材料定义为通过弱缔合相互作用在超分子长度尺度上组织的有机介质。例子包括用于传感器的聚合物薄膜，用于电子显示器的有机混合物，以及天然和人造组织，涵盖从复杂流体到软固体的范围。它们本质上是多尺度的，从分子到宏观。各种各样的结构和形态可以出现，使各种各样的新技术成为可能，所有规模都影响着加工和使用。的博士该计划将围绕联合研讨会，工业实习，合作论文研究和联合课程的核心，包括两个新的实验室课程。该研究将在三个互补的领域：限制对聚合物静态和动态，化学和物理图案，以及生物相关材料的多尺度现象的影响。建议的核心课程将采取除了在学生的主要部门的核心学科要求。我们的建议与现有的博士学位一致。所有五个参与部门的要求，并没有以任何方式增加学位要求或教师的教学负荷;软材料课程将满足现有的选修要求，但将使学生集中在一个协调的程序这些选修课。拟议的合作计划在两个方面是独一无二的：第一，它利用了两个相邻的，城市，公共/私人机构的智力和物质资源，具有互补的教师和多样化的学生团体。第二，它创造了一个独特的，协同的环境，研究和研究生教育在一个利基领域，是在许多技术的核心，以工业为基础的大纽约区域area.IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士的挑战。科学家和工程师与多学科背景和技术，专业和个人技能所需的未来的职业需求。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中促进研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第五年，该奖项将颁发给21个机构，这些机构的计划共同跨越了NSF支持的科学和工程领域。