EMT: NSF Workshop on Programmed Self-Assembly

该提案要求NSF以其他NSF在新兴跨学科研究的目标领域的研讨会的方式，支持关于该主题的有限范围的NSF研讨会。拟议的NSF可编程自组装研讨会的目标将仅限于研究（而不是进行新的研究）NSF在允许可编程的自组装方法方面的自组装领域的研究挑战、应用和机会。自组装是一个新兴的跨学科主题，对美国国家科学基金会现有的项目至关重要，并且将受到以程序化自组装主题为中心的研讨会（很大程度上迄今尚未探索）的积极影响。提议的研讨会将考虑开发与计算方法相关或利用计算方法的自组装方法的科学挑战，提供可编程性，并应用于从分子到微观甚至更大尺度的尺度。本次NSF研讨会将以跨学科为核心，参与者来自化学、生物化学、物理、材料科学、电气工程、计算机科学和数学。它将影响纳米科学的研究界以及从事大规模自组装研究的其他学科。它也将有利于国家科学基金会允许识别有针对性的研究机会和挑战。为了确保研究生的参与，他们的一些旅行和当地费用将得到支持。PI和他的机构杜克大学纯粹作为一种服务向社区提出建议-这个研讨会的任何方面都不会收取管理费。

The proposal requests NSF support for a limited scope NSF workshop on this topic, in the style ofother NSF workshops in targeted areas of emerging interdisciplinary research. The goal of the proposed NSF workshop on Programmed Self-Assembly will be restricted to study (rather than conduct new research) the research challenges, applications, and opportunities to NSF in the areas of Self-Assembly with respect to Self-Assembly methods that allow for Programmability.Intellectual MeritSelf-assembly is a key emerging interdisciplinary topic of essential importance toexisting programs within NSF, and would be very positively impacted by a workshopcentering on the (largely until now unexplored) topic of Programmed Self-Assembly. Theproposed workshop will consider scientific challenges to developing Self-Assemblymethods that relate to or utilize computational methods, provide programmability and areapplied to scales ranging from molecular to micro to even larger scales.\Broader Impact This NSF workshop will be interdisciplinary at its core, with participants fromChemistry, Biochemistry, Physics, Material Science, Electrical Engineering, ComputerScience, and Mathematics. It will impact both the research community in Nanoscience aswell as other disciplines engaged in the study of self-assembly at larger scales. It will alsobenefit the NSF to allow for the identification of targeted research opportunities andchallenges. To insure involvement by graduate students, a number of their travel andlocal expenses will be supported. The PI and his institution Duke University purely as aservice make the proposal to the community - there will no overhead charged on anyaspect of this Workshop.