Interdisciplinary Nanotoxicity Center

建议通过支持多学科纳米毒性CREST中心来加强杰克逊州立大学（JSU）的研究和教育计划。该中心将由JSU生物系、化学系、物理系和土木与环境工程系的教师组成。跨学科的研究小组将对纳米材料进行全面的研究，这将加强杰克逊州立大学的研究基础设施。拟议的项目包括纳米材料的开发和生产以及其毒性研究的不同方面。有五个拟议的研究子项目：？银团簇：结构、光谱、顺磁性和化学吸附的理论研究？纳米粒子物理中的环境特异性问题：光学、能量转移和弛豫过程？？基于纳米材料的环境毒素传感技术瑞利散射光谱？,吗?纳米材料：毒性机制、生物蓄积潜力及其预测模型应用研究？，和？纳米材料物理性质和毒性的建模与预测。拟议中心的所有子项目之间都有密切的联系。其中一个独特的特点是计算组和实验组之间的双向互动。理论小组将模拟实验学家研究的纳米物种。基于计算计算的数据，实验学家将能够测试理论预测的具有增强特性的新材料。新课程和实验室将由中心成员开发和执行，以建立材料科学研究生课程。该中心的活动将侧重于培训少数族裔的研究生和本科生，并为杰克逊周边大学和HBCU/MI机构的本科生提供讲座、研讨会、系列研讨会和暑期研究项目。中心成员的合作活动还将包括组织两个系列的年度国际会议：？计算化学的最新趋势？然后呢?计算化学与材料科学南方学校除了扩张国家？作为科学和技术的基地，该中心还将增加授予非裔美国人计算化学博士学位的数量，并将为美国大学和学院提供高素质和多样化的教职员工。

The enhancement of research and educational programs at Jackson State University (JSU) by supporting the multi-disciplinary Nanotoxicity CREST Center is proposed. The Center will consist of faculty members from the JSU Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Civil and Environmental Engineering. The interdisciplinary group of researchers will perform comprehensive investigations of nanomaterials that will strengthen the research infrastructure of Jackson State University. The proposed projects include different aspects of the development and production of nanomaterials and investigations of their toxicity. There are five proposed research subprojects: ?Silver Clusters: A Theoretical Study of Structure, Spectra, Paramagnetism, and Chemisorption?; ?Environment-Specific Issues in Nanoparticle Physics: Optical, Energy Transfer and Relaxation Processes?; ?Nanomaterial Based Sensing of Environmental Toxin Using hyper ? Rayleigh Scattering Spectroscopy?, ?Nanomaterials: a Study of Toxicity Mechanism, Bioaccumulation Potential, and Application for Prediction Modeling?, and ?Modeling and prediction of Physical Properties and Toxicity of Nanomaterials?. There are strong links among all subprojects of the proposed Center. One of the unique features is the two-way interaction between computational and experimental groups. The theoretical group will model nano-species studied by experimentalists. Based on the data from computational calculations, experimentalists will be able to test new materials that are predicted by theory to possess an enhanced property of interest. New courses and laboratories will be developed and executed by members of the Center in order to establish a graduate program in Materials Science. The Center's activities will be focused on training minority underrepresented graduate and undergraduate students and on lectures, workshops, seminar series, and research summer programs for undergraduate students from colleges surrounding Jackson and from HBCU/MI institutions. The collaborative activities of the members of the Center will also include the organization of two series of annual international conferences: ?Current Trends in Computational Chemistry? and ?Southern Schools on Computational Chemistry and Materials Science?. In addition to expanding the nation?s base for science and technology, the Center will also increase the number of Ph.D. degrees in computational chemistry awarded to African-Americans and will provide well qualified and diverse faculty members for US universities and colleges.