MRSEC: Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials

MRSEC：材料科学与工程中心

• 批准号: 0520565
• 负责人: David Tirrell
• 金额: $ 868万
• 依托单位: California Institute of Technology
• 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 2012-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0520565&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRSEC; Center; Science; Engineering; Materials

Under renewed NSF support, The Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials (CSEM) at Caltech will carry forward its mission as a multifaceted materials research and education center. CSEM combines world-class materials research programs organized as interdisciplinary research groups and seed research projects, with educational programs serving underrepresented minority undergraduate, community college, and high school students across Southern California and also serving the general public via television-based mass media programming. The Center will address both research and educational aspects of materials science in several areas: i) Macromolecular materials design to produce tailored responses to cellular adhesion and growth; ii) novel ferroelectric photonic materials that enable new freedoms in tuning the dispersion relations for photonic materials and devices and offer a new avenue for scientific progress in using light to understand complex materials behavior; and iii) advanced structural materials based on bulk metallic glass composites, with the potential to enable new amorphous structural materials with strength-to-weight ratio much higher than steel. CSEM also supports emerging research areas via seed projects, which will focus on i) catalytic materials for chemical storage of hydrogen via methanol production and use in nonpolymer fuel cells based on "superprotonic" solid acids and ii) spintronic and optoelectronic properties of organic semiconductor/ferromagnetic heterostructures with applications in future electronic and quantum computing devices.

在 NSF 的新支持下，加州理工学院材料科学与工程中心 (CSEM) 将继续履行其作为多方面材料研究和教育中心的使命。 CSEM 结合了以跨学科研究小组和种子研究项目形式组织的世界一流的材料研究项目，以及为南加州代表性不足的少数族裔本科生、社区学院和高中生提供服务的教育项目，并通过电视大众媒体节目为公众提供服务。该中心将在以下几个领域解决材料科学的研究和教育方面的问题：i）高分子材料设计，以产生针对细胞粘附和生长的定制反应； ii) 新型铁电光子材料，可以在调整光子材料和器件的色散关系方面实现新的自由度，并为利用光理解复杂材料行为的科学进步提供新途径； iii）基于大块金属玻璃复合材料的先进结构材料，有可能使新型非晶结构材料的强度重量比远高于钢。 CSEM 还通过种子项目支持新兴研究领域，这些项目将重点关注 i) 通过甲醇生产化学储存氢的催化材料以及在基于“超质子”固体酸的非聚合物燃料电池中的使用，以及 ii) 有机半导体/铁磁异质结构的自旋电子和光电特性及其在未来电子和量子计算设备中的应用。