PIRE: POLYMER Education and Research Partnership between US and Korea

摘要提案编号：0730243 PI姓名：RYU，ChangPI所在机构：Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteProposal Title：PIRE：美国和韩国之间的聚合物教育和研究伙伴关系这个国际研究和教育伙伴关系（PIRE）项目是伦斯勒理工学院、马萨诸塞州阿默斯特大学、德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校、北卡罗来纳州州立大学、浦项科技大学、首尔国立大学、西江大学和延世大学。 奥尔巴尼的纽约州立大学的一名专家负责监督韩国语言和文化培训。 该团队正在共同努力，在聚合物合成，表征和具有可调节单体序列的杂聚物理论（HAMS）方面开展全球研究和教育奋进。 该项目包括两大类HAMS研究：（i）开发聚合物合成化学和分馏技术，以定制单体序列分布，实现含有亲水和疏水重复单元的功能HAMS。这些努力得到了理论模型和计算机模拟的发展的补充，以探索不同时间尺度上的化学细节;（ii）结构、化学和物理表征，以理解HAMS共聚物结构在增强聚合物-聚合物界面、控制表面粘附和识别中的作用，在聚合物纳米复合材料的制造中充当相容剂，并增强pH敏感HAMS用于受控货物释放和水凝胶应用的功能性。 这些科学目标的成功将揭示在界面上的结构复杂的分子的基本原理，并提供在上述应用中设计和控制界面的知识。韩国机构已成为PIRE合作伙伴的目标，为美国学生提供及时的全球研究机会;利用韩国的科学和工业聚合物研究基础设施。 美国和韩国合作者的研究专长协同结合：（1）提供本科夏季文化，研究和教育计划（向美国各地的学生开放）参与韩国语言和文化的综合培训序列，然后在韩国进行科学研究项目;（2）通过鼓励参与的本科生在美国PIRE大学广泛而全面的全球参与研究项目中申请和进行研究生研究，加强研究生教育;（3）促进美国-韩国文化和研究交流，通过开发一个研究生交流计划，包括访问和美国的长期停留。（4）通过促进女性和代表性不足的群体参与交流计划，增加她们的研究生和本科生研究活动;（5）通过将这些活动纳入 该项目由国际科学与工程办公室（OISE）通过PIRE计划和数学与物理科学理事会（MPS）材料研究部（DMR）的聚合物计划资助。

ABSTRACTProposal No.: 0730243PI Name: RYU, ChangPI's Institution: Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteProposal Title: PIRE: POLYMER Education and Research Partnership between US and Korea This Partnership for International Research and Education (PIRE) project is a collaborative effort between scientists and engineers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of Texas at Austin, North Carolina State University, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Sogang University, and Yonsei University. A specialist from the State University of New York at Albany oversees the Korean language and cultural training. This team is working together to develop a global research and education endeavor in polymer synthesis, characterization, and theory of heteropolymers with adjustable monomer sequences (HAMS). The project encompass two broad classes of research on HAMS: (i) the development of polymer synthesis chemistry and fractionation techniques to tailor monomer sequence distribution for the realization of functional HAMS containing hydrophilic and hydrophobic repeat units. These efforts are complemented by the development of theoretical models and computer simulations to probe the details of chemistry on different timescales; (ii) structural, chemical and physical characterization to understand the role of HAMS copolymer architecture in strengthening polymer-polymer interfaces, controlling surface adhesion and recognition, acting as compatibilizing agents in the fabrication of polymer nanocomposites and enhancing the functionality of pH-sensitive HAMS for controlled cargo release and hydrogel applications. Success of these scientific objectives will shed light on the fundamentals of architecturally complex molecules at interfaces and provide knowledge to design and control interfaces in the aforementioned applications.Korean institutions have been targeted as PIRE partners to provide U.S. students with timely global research opportunities; capitalizing upon Korea's scientific and industrial polymer research infrastructure. The research expertise of the U.S. and Korean collaborators is synergistically combined: (1) to offer an undergraduate summer cultural, research and education program (open to students across the U.S.) to participate in an integrated sequence of training in Korean language and culture, followed by a scientific research project in Korea; (2) to enhance graduate education by encouraging the participating undergraduates to apply and pursue graduate research within the broad and comprehensive spectrum of globally-engaging research projects at the U.S. PIRE universities; (3) to promote the U.S.-Korea cultural and research exchange by developing a graduate student exchange program involving visits and extended stays of the U.S./Korean graduate students for a year in the collaborating Korean/U.S. investigator's laboratory; (4) to increase the graduate and undergraduate research activities of female and underrepresented groups by promoting their participation in the exchange programs; (5) to reinforce the existing K-12 educational outreach activities of all the PIs via the integration of those activities into the Virtual Polymer Laboratory maintained at RPI, and (6) to spur new outreach activities building upon the partnerships established by the participating faculty.The project is funded by the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) through the PIRE program and the Polymer Program of the Division of Materials Research (DMR) in the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS).