RUI: Pattern Formation in Cellular and Multicellular Chemical Systems

RUI：细胞和多细胞化学系统中的模式形成

• 批准号: 0608631
• 负责人: Jerzy Maselko
• 金额: $ 14.9万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Anchorage Campus
• 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: 2006-06-01 至 2009-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0608631&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Pattern; Formation; Cellular; Multicellular

Jerzy Maselko of the University of Alaska - Anchorage is supported by a Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) award from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry program with co-funding by the Office of International Science and Engineering to carry out research on complex precipitation structures which arise in various inorganic salt systems. The PI and his students have discovered a number of structures including some which mimic biological cells and other life forms. Experimental studies are being conducted on various silicate and carbonate structures that form in a flow system. A substantial international component to this project exists and includes visits by scientists from The University of Szeged in Hungary to Alaska. The Hungarian scientists, experts in modeling the interaction of chemical reaction with diffusion and buoyancy, are helping in the development of computational models of the precipitation processes to probe the underlying mechanism of the formation of these structures. U.S. students from Alaska, including Alaskan Native Americans, will, in turn, visit the Hungarian laboratory with the PI and participate in research in Central Europe. This work is having a broader impact through the investigation of basic chemical processes which may be involved in the origin of life, as well as through the inclusion of students from groups traditionally under-represented in science in an international scientific team.

阿拉斯加大学安克雷奇分校的Jerzy Maselko获得了理论和计算化学项目的本科院校研究（RUI）奖的支持，由国际科学与工程办公室共同资助，对各种无机盐系统中出现的复杂沉淀结构进行研究。PI和他的学生已经发现了许多结构，包括一些模仿生物细胞和其他生命形式的结构。正在对流动系统中形成的各种硅酸盐和碳酸盐结构进行实验研究。该项目有一个实质性的国际组成部分，包括匈牙利塞格德大学的科学家对阿拉斯加的访问。匈牙利科学家是模拟化学反应与扩散和浮力相互作用的专家，他们正在帮助开发降水过程的计算模型，以探索这些结构形成的基本机制。来自阿拉斯加的美国学生，包括阿拉斯加原住民，将与PI一起参观匈牙利实验室，并参加中欧的研究。这项工作通过调查可能涉及生命起源的基本化学过程，以及通过将来自传统上在科学领域代表性不足的群体的学生纳入国际科学小组，正在产生更广泛的影响。