MRSEC: MRSEC on Nanostructured Interfaces

威斯康星州大学的材料研究科学与工程中心（MRSEC）致力于纳米结构界面的科学与工程。 MRSEC在促进威斯康星州大学擅长的各种科学和工程学科之间的合作方面发挥着关键作用。 它包括一个领先的，世界知名的跨学科教育集团。 威斯康星州MRSEC的理念是，教育和人力资源开发需要与研究相同的创新水平。 这一理念提供了丰富的机会，将尖端MRSEC研究的兴奋带给不同的受众。 威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校MRSEC的跨学科教育集团（IEG）是生产新的教学辅助工具的国家领导者，说明了MRSEC相关主题的纳米材料和现象，以及更广泛的材料科学和工程。 MRSEC支持的共享实验设施为校园和区域内更广泛的材料科学界提供了基础设施。 威斯康星州大学的MRSEC由三个跨学科研究小组（IRG）组成：IRG-1：硅基纳米膜材料将探索薄膜的科学和技术，薄度决定了结构和形貌，并创造了独特的电子，机械和缺陷特性。超薄硅和应变工程允许一个新的研究领域的愿景-极薄的半导体膜的基础研究-具有潜在的重大技术成果。 IRG-2：功能有机-无机电子界面将设计，制造和表征无机材料和有机分子结构之间的界面，以实现对其结构和电子特性的高水平控制，这对从传感到照明的广泛应用至关重要。 IRG-3：Nanostructured Interfaces to Biology将把重点转移到聚合物和液晶材料的设计上，这些材料提供对生物系统（包括蛋白质，病毒和人类胚胎干细胞）合成材料界面的化学功能和物理特性的空间和时间控制。 该中心的参与者目前包括39名高级研究员，7名博士后研究员和17名来自整个校园10多个部门的研究生。 胡安·德巴勃罗教授领导MRSEC。

The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at the University of Wisconsin addresses the science and engineering of nanostructured interfaces. The MRSEC plays a critical role in promoting collaboration between a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines at which the University of Wisconsin excels. It includes a leading-edge, world-renowned interdisciplinary education group. The Wisconsin MRSEC has the philosophy that Education and Human Resource Development requires the same level of innovation as research. This philosophy provides a wealth of opportunities to bring the excitement of cutting-edge MRSEC research to diverse audiences. The UW-Madison MRSEC's Interdisciplinary Education Group (IEG) is a national leader in producing new instructional aids illustrating nanoscale materials and phenomena in MRSEC-related topics, and in materials science and engineering more broadly. The MRSEC supported shared experimental facilities provides infrastructure to the broader materials science community on campus and regionally. The University of Wisconsin's MRSEC is comprised of three Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs): IRG-1: Silicon Based Nanomembrane Materials will explore the science and technology of membranes so thin that the thinness determines the structure and topography, and creates unique electronic, mechanical, and defect properties. Ultra-thin silicon and strain engineering allow a vision of a new field of investigation - fundamental studies of extremely thin semiconductor membranes - with potentially significant technological outcomes. IRG-2: Functional Organic-Inorganic Electronic Interfaces will design, fabricate, and characterize interfaces between inorganic materials and organic molecular structures in order to achieve a high level of control over their structural and electronic properties, critical to a broad spectrum of applications from sensing to lighting. IRG-3: Nanostructured Interfaces to Biology will move its focus to the design of polymeric and liquid-crystalline materials that provide both spatial and temporal control over the chemical functionality and physical properties of interfaces of synthetic materials presented to biological systems, including proteins, viruses and human embryonic stem cells. Participants in the Center currently include 39 senior investigators, 7 postdoctoral associates, and 17 graduate students from over 10 departments throughout campus. Professor Juan De Pablo directs the MRSEC.