MRSEC: Multifunctional Nanoscale Material Structures

MRSEC：多功能纳米材料结构

• 批准号: 0520513
• 负责人: Monica Olvera
• 金额: $ 1070万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-10-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0520513&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRSEC; Multifunctional; Nanoscale; Material; Structures

The Northwestern University MRSEC supports innovative research and education emphasizing fundamental materials science and engineering issues that have potential benefits to society. This research effort shares the theme of "Multifunctional Nanoscale Material Structures," that involve materials synthesis, processing, characterization, theory and modeling. In addition to educating a diverse group of graduate students, the Northwestern MRSEC offers programs that prepare coming generations to better understand the world around them. High school students are introduced to inquiry-based materials science through the Center-developed Materials World Modules program. This MRSEC educates several dozen undergraduates and high school teachers annually in summer research programs. The Northwestern MRSEC has collaborative international research programs and has established the first program between a MRSEC and an internationally renowned art museum; via the Art Institute of Chicago-Northwestern University Program in Conservation Science, the MRSEC contributes to an understanding of the materials science aspects of our cultural heritageThe MRSEC consists of the following Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs): IRG #1 Synergistic Linear and Nonlinear Phenomena in Multifunctional Oxide Ceramic Systems - that studies and exploits the unique attributes of oxide materials that result simultaneously in two or more functionalities (electronic, photonic, and magnetic). IRG #2 Novel Processing Routes to Nanostructured Polymer Blends and Nanocomposites - that studies and exploits the roles of non-equilibrium mechanical forces and equilibrium thermodynamics on the nanoscale structure and macroscale properties of polymer blends and composites resulting from gradient copolymerization, thermoreversible gelcasting, and solid-state shear pulverization. IRG #3 Plasmonics and Molecular Based Electronics: Fundamentals and New Tools - that studies nanoparticles that act as plasmonic switches and develops nanoscale optical characterization tools for investigating conductor-molecule-conductor junctions that lie at the heart of molecule based electronics Participants in the Center currently include 32 senior investigators, 4 postdoctoral associates, and 20 graduate students from six departments. Professor John Torkelson directs the MRSEC.

西北大学MRSEC支持创新研究和教育，强调对社会有潜在利益的基础材料科学和工程问题。 这项研究工作的主题是“多功能纳米材料结构”，涉及材料合成，加工，表征，理论和建模。 除了教育研究生的多元化群体，西北MRSEC提供的方案，准备后代更好地了解他们周围的世界。 高中学生通过中心开发的材料世界模块程序介绍了基于探究的材料科学。 该MRSEC每年在暑期研究项目中教育几十名本科生和高中教师。 西北MRSEC有合作的国际研究计划，并建立了MRSEC和国际知名艺术博物馆之间的第一个程序;通过芝加哥西北大学艺术学院保护科学计划，MRSEC有助于我们的文化遗产的材料科学方面的理解MRSEC由以下跨学科研究小组（IRG）组成：IRG #1多功能氧化物陶瓷系统中的协同线性和非线性现象-研究和利用氧化物材料的独特属性，同时产生两种或多种功能（电子，光子和磁性）。 IRG #2纳米结构聚合物共混物和纳米复合材料的新加工路线-研究和利用非平衡机械力和平衡热力学对聚合物共混物和复合材料的纳米级结构和宏观尺度性质的作用，这些聚合物共混物和复合材料由梯度共聚、热可逆凝胶浇铸和固态剪切粉碎产生。 IRG #3 Plasmonics and Molecular Based Electronics：Fundamentals and New Tools-研究充当等离子体开关的纳米粒子，并开发纳米级光学表征工具，用于研究位于分子电子学核心的导体-分子-导体结中心的参与者目前包括32名高级研究员，4名博士后助理和20名来自六个部门的研究生。 John Torkelson教授领导MRSEC。