Symposium on Polymer Chemistry in Nanotechnology, Fall ACS Meeting, September 7-11, 2003, New York, N.Y

这项提案要求美国国家科学基金会提供3000美元的演讲者旅行援助，用于在2003年秋季在纽约举行的全国ACS会议(2003年9月7日至11日)上举行的Poly/PMSE研讨会上，主题为“纳米技术中的聚合物化学”。本次研讨会的联合组织者是爱荷华大学的Pi(CU Boulder)和C.Allan Guymon教授。研讨会的重点将是如何将聚合物化学应用于学术界和工业界的许多学科，这也是目前的国家科学技术倡议。鉴于这种广泛的兴趣，以及聚合物化学和纳米技术都是NSF的重要研究和教育目标的事实，我们相信这次研讨会将是NSF会议支持的理想人选。在知识价值方面，这次研讨会将提供一个跨学科的论坛，展示和讨论关于如何利用聚合物化学来获得具有相关和有趣特性的功能纳米结构材料、装置和系统的新的和以前未发表的结果。纳米技术的成功发展依赖于化学家、聚合物化学家、材料科学家、物理学家和化学工程师的跨学科合作，以创造和理解在纳米尺度上运行的新的物理原理。聚合物有望在纳米材料和器件的发展中发挥关键作用，因为它们为化学修饰和器件制造提供了一个方便、轻便的平台。从更广泛的影响来看，这次研讨会将成为展示聚合物纳米技术领域学术和工业研究的一个便利、高调的场所。与这次研讨会相关的演讲、海报和预印本不仅可以用来教育ACS成员，也可以用来教育普通科学公众关于纳米技术中聚合物的相关性。这次研讨会也将成为一个重要的平台，让年轻的科学家(即研究生和博士后研究员)参与和了解聚合物化学和纳米技术交叉领域的令人兴奋的机会。

This proposal requests $3000 from the NSF for speaker travel assistance for a POLY/PMSE symposium titled "Polymer Chemistry in Nanotechnology", to be held at the Fall 2003 National ACS Meeting in New York City, NY (September 7-11, 2003). The co-organizers of this symposium are the PI (CU Boulder) and Prof. C. Allan Guymon from the University of Iowa. The symposium will focus on how polymer chemistry can be applied to both academia and industry across many disciplines, and it is also currently a national science and technology initiative. Given this broad interest and the fact that polymer chemistry and nanotechnology are both important research and education objectives within NSF, we believe this symposium would be an ideal candidate for NSF conference support.In terms of intellectual merit, this symposium will provide an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation and discussion of new and previously unpublished results on how polymer chemistry can be used to achieve functional nanostructured materials, devices, and systems with relevant and interesting properties. The successful development of nanotechnology relies on the interdisciplinary cooperation of chemists, polymer chemists, materials scientists, physicists, and chemical engineers to create and understand new physical principle operating on the nanometer-scale size regime. Polymers are expected to play a pivotal role in the development of nanostructured materials and devices, because they offer a convenient, lightweight platform for chemical modification and device fabrication. This symposium will act as a vehicle to help keep members of ACS at the forefront of research at the intersection of polymer science and nanotechnology, so that even more important advances can be realized via a higher degree of participation.In terms of broader impact, this symposium will be a convenient, high profile venue for the presentation of academic and industrial research in the area of polymer-based nanotechnology. The talks, posters, and preprints associated with this symposium can be used to educate not only ACS members but also the general scientific public on the relevance of polymers in nantechnology. This symposium will also serve as an important platform for allowing young scientists 9i.e., graduate students and postdoctoral fellows) to participate in and learn about the exciting opportunities at the intersection of polymer chemistry and nanotechnology.