MRSEC: Genetically Engineered Materials Science and Engineering Center

MRSEC：基因工程材料科学与工程中心

• 批准号: 0520567
• 负责人: Mehmet Sarikaya
• 金额: $ 540万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 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 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0520567&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRSEC; Genetically; Engineered; Materials; Science

The University of Washington MRSEC supports innovative research and education that integrates modern molecular biology with state of the art chemical synthesis to construct hybrid materials exhibiting properties that cannot be achieved through either traditional biological or chemical routes. By engineering modular biomolecular components with tailored recognition, structural, and informational properties and interfacing them with specific molecular and inorganic nanoscale components the MRSEC will impart materials with photonic / electronic / catalytic / chemical functionality that can be reorganized, addressed, and reconfigured on demand in response to external stimuli. The center will develop coordinated activities in graduate and undergraduate education and outreach, establish an international network of laboratories sharing a common interest in molecular biomimetics, and partner with industry and national laboratories to translate fundamental discoveries into new products realities. The MRSEC will conduct a unique outreach program to Native Americans in the Seattle area.The MRSEC, consisting of one Interdisciplinary Research Group - Polypeptides as genetically engineered building blocks for functional hybrid materials - will create protein-based molecular building blocks with tailored functionalities and use them for the synthesis and assembly of nanostructured hybrid materials exhibiting novel or improved properties. Participants in the Center currently include ten senior investigators, four postdoctoral associates, and five graduate students from seven departments and two partner universities - New York University and the Istanbul Technical University. Professor Mehmet Sarikaya directs the MRSEC..

华盛顿大学MRSEC支持将现代分子生物学与最先进的化学合成相结合的创新研究和教育，以构建具有传统生物或化学途径无法实现的性能的杂化材料。通过设计具有量身定制的识别、结构和信息特性的模块化生物分子组件，并将它们与特定的分子和无机纳米组件相连接，MRSEC将赋予材料光子/电子/催化/化学功能，这些功能可以根据外部刺激的需要进行重组、寻址和重新配置。该中心将在研究生和本科生教育和推广方面开展协调活动，建立在分子仿生学方面具有共同兴趣的国际实验室网络，并与行业和国家实验室合作，将基础发现转化为新产品现实。MRSEC将对西雅图地区的美洲原住民进行一项独特的推广计划。MRSEC由一个跨学科研究小组组成--多肽是功能杂交材料的基因工程构建块--将创建具有定制功能的基于蛋白质的分子构建块，并将它们用于合成和组装展示新颖或改进性能的纳米结构杂化材料。该中心的参与者目前包括十名高级研究员、四名博士后助理和来自七个系和两所伙伴大学--纽约大学和伊斯坦布尔技术大学--的五名研究生。Mehmet Sarikaya教授是MRSEC的负责人。