Interdisciplinary Nanotoxicity Center

杰克逊州立大学(JSU)建议通过支持多学科纳米毒性CREST中心来加强研究和教育项目。该中心将由JSU生物、化学、物理和土木工程与环境工程系的教职员工组成。这个跨学科的研究小组将对纳米材料进行全面调查，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开发和生产的不同方面以及对其毒性的调查。提出了五个研究子项目：银团簇：结构、光谱、顺磁性和化学吸附的理论研究；纳米粒子物理中与环境有关的问题：光学、能量转移和弛豫过程？；基于纳米材料的环境毒素的超？瑞利散射光谱学？纳米材料：毒性机理、生物蓄积潜力的研究及其在预测建模、纳米材料的物理性质和毒性的建模和预测中的应用。拟建中心的所有次级项目之间有很强的联系。其中一个独特的特点是计算小组和实验小组之间的双向互动。理论小组将对实验者研究的纳米物种进行建模。基于计算计算的数据，实验者将能够测试理论预测具有增强的感兴趣的特性的新材料。中心成员将开发和执行新的课程和实验室，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代表不足的研究生和本科生，以及为杰克逊周围大学和HBCU/MI机构的本科生提供讲座、研讨会、系列研讨会和研究暑期项目。该中心成员的合作活动还将包括组织两个系列的国际年度会议：计算化学的当前趋势？以及？南方计算化学和材料科学学校？除了扩大国家S的科技基地外，该中心还将增加授予非裔美国人的计算化学博士学位，并将为美国大学和学院提供高素质和多样化的教师队伍。

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.