International: Joint U.S.-Germany Workshop on Polymers, July 20-25, 2003, Bayreuth, Germany

这项提议寻求为一个联合研讨会提供资金，重点是新型聚合物材料的合成和性能，并将有来自美国和德国的年轻科学家参加。本次研讨会的拟议与会者对复杂聚合物材料的合成和表征做出了贡献，这些材料的性能可以限制在微米和纳米尺度上。聚合物具有复杂的结构，不同化学成分的复杂排列，通过高通量组合技术的发展，表征方法的范围已经扩大。拟议的与会者有许多重叠的兴趣，包括树枝状大分子、超支化聚合物和环状聚合物的广泛使用；聚电解质多层膜的开发；用于设备和药物输送的响应材料的开发；多肽和蛋白质的合成；两亲性分子和嵌段共聚物在溶液和固态中的自组装；以及将有组织的相用于新的合成程序和开发新的材料。讲习班的目标是启动新的合作和互动，因此将侧重于缺乏国际曝光率的年轻研究人员。为了强调新的互动，任何人都不允许参加两次美德研讨会，除非他或她被选为下一次会议的共同组织者，或者是前一次会议的组织者。拟议的美方与会者包括九名助理教授、两名最近晋升的副教授和两名组织者，他们都是副教授。除了确保不断形成新的互动外，这一规定还阻止演变成一个“老男孩俱乐部”。拟议的讲习班有妇女和少数群体的积极参与。在15名拟议的美国参与者(3名工业界人士)中，6名是女性，3名是非裔美国人，1名是西班牙裔，3名是亚洲人(这是美国教职员工水平的少数民族)。在12名拟议的德国与会者中，有两名是女性。美国的参与者代表来自加利福尼亚州、德克萨斯州、中西部和东北部各州的大学和公司。

This proposal seeks funding for a joint Workshop focusing on the synthesis and properties of new polymeric materials, and will involve younger scientists from the United States and Germany. The proposed participants in this symposium have contributed to the synthesis and characterization of sophisticated polymeric materials whose properties can be confined at micron and nanometer length scales. The polymers have complex architectures, complex arrangements of diverse chemical constituents, and the range of characterization methods has expanded through the development of high throughput combinatorial techniques. The proposed participants have many overlapping interest, including the broad use of dendrimers, hyperbranched and cyclic polymers; the development of polyelectrolyte multilayers; the development of responsive materials for devices and drug delivery; the synthesis of pepties and proteins; the self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules and block copolymers in both solution and solid-state; and the use of organized phases for new synthetic procedures and to develop new materials. The goal of the Workshop is to initiate new collaborations and interactions, and will therefore emphasize younger researchers who lack international exposure. In order to emphasize new interactions, no one is allowed to attend the US-Germany workshop twice, unless he or she is chosen to co-organize the next meeting or was the previous organizer. The proposed American participants include nine Assistant Professors, two recently-promoted Associate Professors, and the two organizers who are both Associate Professors. In addition to ensuring that new interactions are constantly forming, this stipulation also discourages evolution into an "old-boys club". The proposed workshop features active participation of women and minorities. Of the fifteen proposed US participants (three industrial), six are women, three are African American, one is hispanic, and three are Asian (which are minorities at the faculty level in the US). Of the twelve proposed German participants, two are women. The US participants represent Universities and companies from California, Texas, the Midwest and northeastern states.