An Operating Center Proposal for Renewing an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Polymer and Composite Engineering

聚合物工业是我们这个时代最具活力和扩展的工业之一。在竞争极其激烈的全球市场上，这是美国仍保持强大领导地位的少数几个行业之一。近5年来，美国国家科学基金会（NSF）在俄亥俄州立大学建立了先进聚合物与复合材料工程产学研合作中心（CAPCE），开展了工业界与学术界的重点合作。CAPCE为面向应用的工业研究人员和面向基础的大学研究人员提供了全面而有序的合作，促进了先进聚合物和复合材料的商业化。该中心将继续强调更传统的聚合物和复合材料工业制造部门的需求，因为这些成员主导着工业支持基础。此外，他们的努力将包括：-与行业成员合作，将国家科学基金会支持的研究的基础研究成果转化为商业产品和工艺；-在产品制造中采用环境友好型技术，减少能源消耗和有毒化学品；减少挥发性溶剂和制造废物的数量；提高可持续性；-利用微纳米制造技术，为生物mems、传感器和其他应用实现高效、低成本的批量生产。

The polymer industry is one of the most dynamic and expanding industries of our time. It is one of the few industries in which the U.S. still holds a strong leadership in an extremely competitive global market.A focused collaboration between industry and academia has been underway for nearly five years through the activities of the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Polymer and Composite Engineering (CAPCE) at the Ohio State University. CAPCE offers comprehensive and well-organized collaboration between application-oriented researchers in industry and fundamental-oriented researchers in universities, enhancing commercialization of advanced polymer and composites materials. The Center will continue to emphasize the needs of the more traditional manufacturing sector of the polymer and composite industry, since these members dominate the industrial support base. In addition, their efforts will include:- Cooperating with industry members to translate basic research results from NSF supported research into commercial products and processes;- Incorporating environmentally-friendly technologies in product manufacturing by reducing energy consumption and toxic chemicals; reducing the amount of volatile solvents and manufacturing waste; and increasing sustainability; and- Enabling efficient, low-cost mass production of parts for bio-MEMS, sensors, and other applications, using micro and nanno-fabrication techniques.