Travel Support for Young Faculty Members and Postdocs to attend the Symposium on "Stimuli-Responsive Polymers" at the ACS National Spring Meeting, April 6-10, 2008, New Orleans, LA

为年轻教师和博士后参加 ACS 全国春季会议“刺激响应聚合物”研讨会提供差旅支持，该会议将于 2008 年 4 月 6 日至 10 日在路易斯安那州新奥尔良举行

• 批准号: 0751393
• 负责人: Christoph Weder
• 金额: $ 0.35万
• 依托单位: Case Western Reserve University
• 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: 2007-12-01 至 2008-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0751393&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; Support; Young; Faculty; Members

INTELLECTUAL MERIT: The past two decades have seen a surging interest in theexploration and exploitation of stimulus-responsive polymers, i.e. macromolecularmaterials which, usually reversibly, change at least one of their key properties in responseto an external stimulus such as such as a change in temperature, pH, ionic strength,solvent, and irradiation with light or electric fields. The possibility to program them withdesired functions clearly distinguishes stimulus-responsive polymers from otheradvanced materials with 'traditional' functional characteristics. Demonstrated or targetedhigh-level functions such as perception, judgment, movement, and recognition, havetriggered the inaccurate but rather descriptive use of the term 'intelligent materials'. Thecombination of fundamental scientific curiosity on the one hand and the broadtechnological opportunities that promise to impact virtually all areas of life on the otherdefine the increasing interest in these materials. The goal of this symposium is to bringtogether established experts, scientists at the beginning of their careers, and students fromdifferent disciplines, to share most up-to-date and important research focused on thedesign, synthesis, processing and application of stimuli-responsive polymers. Four halfdayoral sessions with about 30 talks will concentrate on (1) MechanoresponsiveMaterials; (2) Responsive Polymers for Bio-Applications; (3) Polymers with UnusualSensing Capabilities; and (4) Polymers that Respond to Electromagnetic Radiation.BROADER IMPACT: All of the funds awarded from NSF will be used to facilitatesymposium attendance by faculty members that are at the beginning of their careers (andtheir students) and who might otherwise not be able to attend. Priority will be given toparticipants who would like to give oral presentations and from groups that areunderrepresented in STEM disciplines.

知识专长：在过去的二十年里，人们对刺激响应聚合物的研究和开发产生了浓厚的兴趣，刺激响应聚合物是一种大分子材料，它通常会可逆地改变至少一种关键性质，以响应外部刺激，如温度、pH值、离子强度、溶剂以及光或电场的照射。编程的可能性，他们与所需的功能清楚地区分刺激响应聚合物与其他先进的材料与“传统”的功能特性。被证明或有针对性的高级功能，如感知、判断、运动和识别，引发了对“智能材料”一词的不准确但描述性的使用。一方面是基本的科学好奇心，另一方面是广泛的技术机会，这些机会几乎可以影响生活的所有领域，这两者的结合决定了人们对这些材料越来越感兴趣。本次研讨会的目的是汇集专家，科学家在他们的职业生涯开始，和学生从不同的学科，分享最新的和重要的研究集中在thefesign，合成，加工和应用的刺激响应聚合物。四个半天的口头会议，约30个讲座将集中在（1）机械响应材料;（2）生物应用的响应聚合物;（3）具有不寻常的传感能力的聚合物;和（4）响应电磁辐射的聚合物。所有的基金将被用于促进研讨会出席的教员是在他们的职业生涯的开始（以及他们的学生），否则他们可能无法参加。将优先考虑那些愿意做口头报告的参与者和来自STEM学科代表性不足的团体。