PIRE: POLYMER Education and Research Partnership between US and Korea

ABSTRACTProposal没有。： 0730243PI姓名：RYU， ChangPI所在机构：Rensselaer Polytechnic institute提案标题：PIRE：这项国际研究与教育合作项目（PIRE）是伦斯勒理工学院、马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校、德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校、北卡罗来纳州立大学、浦项科技大学、首尔国立大学、西江大学和延世大学的科学家和工程师们共同努力的结果。美国纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校（State University of New York at Albany）的专家负责韩国语和文化培训。该团队正在共同努力开发具有可调单体序列（HAMS）的聚合物合成，表征和理论的全球研究和教育工作。该项目包括两大类对HAMS的研究：(i)发展聚合物合成化学和分离技术，以定制单体序列分布，以实现包含亲水和疏水重复单元的功能性HAMS。这些努力还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，以了解HAMS共聚物结构在加强聚合物-聚合物界面、控制表面粘附和识别、在聚合物纳米复合材料制造中作为增容剂以及增强ph敏感的HAMS的功能以控制货物释放和水凝胶应用方面的作用。这些科学目标的成功将揭示界面结构复杂分子的基本原理，并为上述应用中的界面设计和控制提供知识。韩国院校已成为国际研究合作伙伴，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是协同结合的：(1)提供一个本科生暑期文化，研究和教育项目（向美国各地的学生开放），参加韩国语言和文化的综合培训，然后在韩国进行科学研究项目；(2)加强研究生教育，鼓励参与的本科生申请并在美国国际合作伙伴关系大学广泛而全面的全球参与研究项目中进行研究生研究；(3)促进韩美文化和研究交流，制定研究生交流计划，让美国和韩国研究生在韩美合作国家访问和长期停留一年研究员的实验室;(4)通过促进女性和代表性不足群体参与交流项目，增加她们的研究生和本科生研究活动；(5)通过将现有的K-12教育推广活动整合到RPI维护的虚拟聚合物实验室中，加强所有pi的教育推广活动；(6)在参与教师建立的伙伴关系的基础上，促进新的推广活动。该项目由国际科学与工程办公室（OISE）通过数学与物理科学理事会（MPS）材料研究部（DMR）的PIRE计划和聚合物计划资助。

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).