Speaker Travel Support for "Polymers and Liquid Crystals" ACS Symposium; Boston, MA; August 19-23,2007

“聚合物与液晶”ACS 研讨会演讲者旅行支持；

• 批准号: 0726679
• 负责人: Douglas Gin
• 金额: $ 0.3万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2008-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0726679&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Speaker; Travel; Support; Polymers; Liquid

This proposal requests $3000 from the NSF for speaker travel assistance for a POLY Division symposium titled "Polymers and Liquid Crystals", to be held at the Fall 2007 ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA (Aug. 1923, 2007). The co-organizers of this symposium are the PI (CU Boulder) and Prof. C. Allan Guymon from the University of Iowa. The focus of this symposium is to showcase new research and application directions in the area of liquid crystal (LC)-containing and LC-based polymer systems. Such materials are important because LCs provide the ability to readily control order and anisotropy in polymer materials, and thereby amplify or modify specific properties. In addition, LC components offer the ability to control polymer architecture on the nanometer scale to generate organic nanomaterials with enhanced chemical and/or physical properties. Nanotechnology is an area of great interest to both academia and industry across many disciplines, and it is also currently a national science and technology initiative. The last major ACS POLY symposium on polymers and LCs was held 8 years ago in Fall 1999. The ACS also held a very small symposium in the Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Division entitled "Nanostructured Liquid Crystal/Polymeric Materials Applications and Devices" in Fall 2003. Since that time, a number of new research directions in LC polymer systems have emerged. These include new types of materials using new LC phases and polymer architectures; integration of new functional properties into LC polymer materials; and new areas of application, including functional coatings, membranes, catalysts, tissue engineering scaffolds, and micro-actuators. This symposium will highlight these new advances and research directions in this exciting area of polymer chemistry and materials science. Given that polymer chemistry and nanoscience are two important research and education areas within NSF, we believe this symposium would be an ideal candidate for NSF conference support.In terms of intellectual merit, this symposium will provide an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation and discussion of new and previously unpublished results on how polymer chemistry and LC science can be used to achieve functional, ordered polymer materials with relevant and interesting properties. taminants from water. The combination of polymer chemistry with LC technology has already lead to many high-performance ordered polymer materials (e.g., main-chain LC poly(aramid) fibers for high strength and ballistic protection), as well as new display and optical technologies (e.g., polymer-dispersed LC (PDLC) displays). However, the area of polymers and LCs is still at a very early stage of development. Only a handful of classes of LCs (mainly thermotropic LC phases) and polymer architectures (linear, side-chain, cross-linked resins) have been combined and explored. New combinations of LCs and polymer chemistries hold the promise of leading to new types of ordered polymer materials with unprecedented structures and properties. Consequently, it is important for researchers to understand the fundamental behavior and structure of new LC polymer materials, and also see their potential to be used in new application areas beyond structural materials and optical materials. This symposium will act as a vehicle to help keep members of ACS at the forefront of research at the intersection of polymer science and LC technology.In terms of broader impact, this symposium will be a convenient, high profile venue for the presentation of academic and industrial research in the area of LC polymer materials chemistry. The talks, posters, and preprints associated with this symposium will be used to educate not only ACS members but also the general scientific public on the relevance of ordered polymer systems based on LCs This symposium will also serve as an important platform for allowing young scientists (i.e., beginning investigators, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows) to participate and learn about the exciting opportunities at the intersection of polymer chemistry and LC materials.

该提案要求 NSF 提供 3000 美元，用于为题为“聚合物和液晶”的 POLY 部门研讨会提供演讲者旅费资助，该研讨会将于 2007 年秋季在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行的 ACS 全国会议（1923 年 8 月）举行。本次会议的共同主办方为PI（CU Boulder）和爱荷华大学C. Allan Guymon教授。本次研讨会的重点是展示含液晶（LC）和基​​于液晶的聚合物系统领域的新研究和应用方向。此类材料非常重要，因为液晶能够轻松控制聚合物材料的有序性和各向异性，从而放大或修改特定性能。此外，液晶组件能够在纳米尺度上控制聚合物结构，从而生成具有增强化学和/或物理特性的有机纳米材料。纳米技术是学术界和工业界在多个学科领域都非常感兴趣的领域，也是目前的一项国家科技举措。上一次关于聚合物和液晶的 ACS POLY 大型研讨会于 8 年前的 1999 年秋季举行。ACS 还在高分子材料：科学与工程 (PMSE) 部门于 2003 年秋季举办了一次小型研讨会，题为“纳米结构液晶/高分子材料应用和设备”。从那时起，液晶聚合物系统中出现了许多新的研究方向。其中包括使用新液晶相和聚合物结构的新型材料；将新的功能特性融入液晶聚合物材料中；以及新的应用领域，包括功能涂层、膜、催化剂、组织工程支架和微执行器。本次研讨会将重点介绍高分子化学和材料科学这一令人兴奋的领域的新进展和研究方向。鉴于聚合物化学和纳米科学是 NSF 内的两个重要研究和教育领域，我们相信本次研讨会将是 NSF 会议支持的理想候选者。就智力价值而言，本次研讨会将为展示和讨论新的和以前未发表的成果提供一个跨学科论坛，讨论如何利用聚合物化学和液晶科学来实现具有相关和有趣特性的功能性、有序聚合物材料。来自水中的污染物。聚合物化学与液晶技术的结合已经催生了许多高性能有序聚合物材料（例如，用于高强度和防弹保护的主链液晶聚芳酰胺纤维），以及新的显示和光学技术（例如聚合物分散液晶（PDLC）显示器）。然而，聚合物和液晶领域仍处于发展的早期阶段。仅对少数类别的液晶（主要是热致液晶相）和聚合物结构（线性、侧链、交联树脂）进行了组合和探索。液晶和聚合物化学的新组合有望产生具有前所未有的结构和性能的新型有序聚合物材料。因此，研究人员必须了解新型液晶聚合物材料的基本行为和结构，并看到它们在结构材料和光学材料之外的新应用领域的潜力。本次研讨会将作为一个工具，帮助 ACS 成员保持在聚合物科学和液晶技术交叉领域研究的前沿。就更广泛的影响而言，本次研讨会将成为展示液晶聚合物材料化学领域学术和工业研究的便捷、高调的场所。与本次研讨会相关的演讲、海报和预印本不仅将用于教育 ACS 成员，而且还将用于教育广大科学公众关于基于液晶的有序聚合物系统的相关性。本次研讨会还将作为一个重要平台，让年轻科学家（即新研究人员、研究生和博士后）参与并了解高分子化学和液晶材料交叉领域的令人兴奋的机会。