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.

在新的NSF支持下，加州理工学院的材料与工程中心（CSEM）将继续作为多方面材料研究和教育中心的任务。 CSEM结合了世界一流的材料研究计划，该计划是跨学科研究小组和种子研究项目的组织，以及为整个南加州提供代表性不足的少数族裔本科生，社区学院和高中生提供的教育计划，并通过基于电视的大众媒体计划为公众提供服务。该中心将在多个领域介绍材料科学的研究和教育方面：i）大分子材料设计，以产生对细胞粘附和生长的量身定制反应； ii）新型的铁电光子材料，可以在调整光子材料和设备的分散关系方面提供新的自由，并为使用光来理解复杂材料行为的科学进步提供新的途径； iii）基于块状金属玻璃复合材料的高级结构材料，有可能使新的无定形结构材料具有强度与重量的比率高于钢。 CSEM还通过种子项目支持新兴的研究领域，该项目将重点介绍I）基于“超螺旋体”固固体和ii）在非聚合物燃料电池中化学储存氢的催化材料，ii）具有有机半导体/富特电磁物质的旋转和光电性和光电性，并使用未来的量子化计算机和定量计算。