Materials World Network: Cooperative Activity in Materials Research between US Investigators and their Counterparts in Chile

材料世界网络：美国研究人员与智利同行之间的材料研究合作活动

• 批准号: 0807012
• 负责人: Thomas Witten
• 金额: $ 52.4万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-06-15 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0807012&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Materials; World; Network; Cooperative; Activity

A group of materials researchers at the University of Chicago will continue collaborative research with counterparts at the Universidad de Chile and the Universidad de Santiago. The core activity of this ?Chicago-Chile Materials Collaboration" is to provide ten-week internships for six selected Chilean students each year at the U. of Chicago, and for a like number of University of Chicago students at the Chilean universities. The project also sponsors visits by faculty in both directions. The research centers on the consequences of strong deformation in soft materials. This project enhances existing tandem research efforts in granular motion under vibration and collision. It extends collaboration on buckling of liquid-supported molecular films engendered under the previous grant. It further investigates a broad spectrum of problems, including the interaction between foci of curvature in a crumpled sheet, the stochastic nature of abrupt stress relaxation events in crumpled sheets and in magnets, puzzling kinetic growth patterns resembling Laplacian growth in molecular films and in drying suspensions, anomalies in the collective motion in confined colloidal suspensions and in sedimenting suspensions, the storage and transport of magnetization information in disordered magnets, the connection between molecular events and organized crawling motion in eucaryotic cells. Despite the manifest excellence of the Chilean partners' research and the excellent academic preparation and motivation of the Chilean students, these faculty and students are under-represented on the scientific scene. This pool of under-recognized talent represents a major opportunity. The Chicago researchers benefit by tapping this talent pool. Chicago student participants benefit by experiencing the creative scientific culture of the Chilean partners. During the first grant period, these internships made a major impact on many of the students' careers. As in the last funding cycle, the experience of working on current research problems with leaders in this research is expected to trigger a new level of performance and activity in these students. The program is also expected to spawn new collaborations between senior researchers at the partner institutions, as in the past funding cycle.

芝加哥大学的一组材料研究人员将继续与智利大学和圣地亚哥大学的同行合作研究。其核心活动？芝加哥-智利材料合作”是提供为期十周的实习，为六个选定的智利学生每年在美国。芝加哥大学和智利大学的芝加哥大学学生。该项目还赞助教师进行双向访问。该研究集中在软材料的强变形的后果。该项目加强了现有的串联研究工作在振动和碰撞下的颗粒运动。 它扩展了在以前的资助下产生的液体支撑分子膜的屈曲合作。它进一步研究了广泛的问题，包括弯曲的焦点之间的相互作用在一个皱巴巴的片，突然应力松弛事件的随机性质在皱巴巴的片和磁铁，令人费解的动力学增长模式类似拉普拉斯增长在分子膜和干燥悬浮液，异常的集体运动在有限的胶体悬浮液和沉降悬浮液，无序磁体中磁化信息的存储和传输，真核细胞中分子事件和有组织爬行运动之间的联系。尽管智利合作伙伴的研究和智利学生出色的学术准备和动力，这些教师和学生在科学界的代表性不足。这些未被充分认识的人才是一个重大的机会。芝加哥大学的研究人员从这一人才库中获益。芝加哥学生参与者受益于体验智利合作伙伴的创造性科学文化。在第一个赠款期间，这些实习对许多学生的职业生涯产生了重大影响。 与上一个资助周期一样，与本研究的领导者一起研究当前研究问题的经验预计将引发这些学生的表现和活动达到新的水平。该计划还有望在合作机构的高级研究人员之间产生新的合作，就像过去的资助周期一样。