Chemical Design of Materials

通过化学键中心（CBC）第一阶段第二阶段的奖励，化学系和数学与物理科学理事会多学科活动办公室共同支持加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的Nicola a . Spaldin的研究，她将领导来自UCSB、休斯顿大学、俄亥俄州立大学和卡内基梅隆大学的研究人员的合作。这个CBC汇集了化学家和材料科学家，目标是利用化学键的原理来实现多功能材料的合理设计。在项目的第一阶段，CBC团队拥有化学合成、结构表征、薄膜生长和高级计算方面的专业知识，将专注于固体中的极性键，以设计和合成具有有趣的电和磁性质的极性固体。该CBC的长期目标是将新设计的极性固体的特殊性能与附加功能相结合，以便合理设计和制备“智能”材料。除了化学和材料科学交叉领域的基础理解和技术突破外，广泛的推广计划将提高公众对化学作为现代创新主要驱动力的认识。化学键合中心旨在集中创新的合作努力，解决一个“大问题”，这将导致化学或化学与其他科学的界面的重大进展，并有可能吸引广泛的科学和公众的兴趣。

With this Chemical Bonding Center (CBC) Phase I, Step II award, the Division of Chemistry and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate jointly support the research of Nicola A. Spaldin, of the University of California at Santa Barbara, who will lead a collaborative of researchers from UCSB, the University of Houston, Ohio State University, and Carnegie Mellon University. This CBC brings together chemists and material scientists with the goal of using the principles of chemical bonding to achieve the rational design of multifunctional materials. In phase I of the project, the CBC team, with expertise in chemical synthesis, structural characterization, thin film growth, and high level computation, will focus on polar bonding in solids to design and synthesize polar solids exhibiting interesting electrical and magnetic properties. The long-term goal of this CBC will be to combine the exceptional properties of newly designed polar solids with additional functionalities in order to rationally design and prepare "smart" materials. In addition to the fundamental understanding and technological breakthroughs that will result from this CBC at the interface of chemistry and materials science, an extensive outreach program will enhance the public's appreciation of chemistry as a major driving force in modern innovation.Chemical Bonding Centers are designed to focus innovative collaborative efforts that address a "big problem" which will lead to a major advance in chemistry or at the interface of chemistry and other sciences and will have the potential to attract broad scientific and public interest.