U.S.-Germany: Cooperative Research on Surfactant Self-Aggregation on Solid Surfaces and in Pores

美德：固体表面和孔隙中表面活性剂自聚集的合作研究

• 批准号: 0541956
• 负责人: Keith Gubbins
• 金额: $ 0.37万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-01-15 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0541956&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Germany; Cooperative; Research; Surfactant

This award supports the PI and several graduate, undergraduate, and postdoctoral students from North Carolina State University in a collaboration withMartin Schoen, Gerhard Findenegg, and Sabine Klapp of the Physics Department at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. The research will focus on the self-assembly of surfactants on solid surfaces and in nano-porous solids. Such self-assembly processes are as yet only poorly understood, but are crucial in applications ranging from sensors, thin-film technologies, lithographic processes, electronic devices , and sol-gel nano-coatings to biomimetic materials. They are also of great fundamental interest, since many unique features of the self-assembly are as yet unexplained. The phenomena of interest spans a range of length scales from the atomic to the microscopic and of time scales from picoseconds to microseconds, so that new simulation methodology or theoretical techniques are required to study the systems successfully. The project combines the expertise in experimental and dynamical simulation studies of surfactant self-assembly of the Berlin group with the extensive experience of the NC State group in equilibrium properties of host phases confined within nano-porous materials.The broader impacts of this collaboration are that it increases interactions between US researchers and those in Germany, it promotes collaborative opportunities and career development for US students, and it enhances the infrastructure for research and education by laying the groundwork for future international research and education opportunities.

该奖项支持来自北卡罗来纳州立大学的PI和几名毕业生，本科生和博士后学生与德国柏林技术大学物理系的Marartin Schoen，Gerhard Findenegg和Sabine Klapp合作。 该研究将集中于在固体表面和纳米孔固体中表面活性剂的自组装。 这种自组装过程尚不清楚，但对于从传感器，薄膜技术，光刻工艺，电子设备和Sol-Gel纳米涂料到仿生材料的应用至关重要。 它们也具有极大的兴趣，因为自组装的许多独特功能尚未解释。 感兴趣的现象跨越了从原子到显微镜的长度范围范围，并从Picseconds到微秒的时间尺度，因此需要新的模拟方法或理论技术来成功研究系统。 该项目结合了柏林集团表面活性剂自组装的实验和动态模拟研究的专业知识与NC国家组在纳米孔材料中限制在主机阶段的均衡性能中的丰富经验为未来的国际研究和教育机会奠定基础。