Travel Support for Young Faculty and Graduate Students to Attend the Symposium on "Active and Responsive Surfaces" at the ACS National Meeting, 3/22-26/09, Salt Lake City, UT

技术：当今聚合物研究的一个核心挑战是创造能够根据需要或响应环境变化动态改变其结构和性能的材料。在响应性材料的设计中，表面和界面是一个特别吸引人的焦点领域，因为位于界面的少量材料对润湿性、粘附性、光学外观和生物活性等许多性质产生了不成比例的巨大影响。因此，通过对具有响应性表面的材料施加相对温和的刺激，可以实现显著的性能变化。非技术性：本次研讨会的目的是将活跃和响应性表面领域的知名领导者和后起之秀聚集在一起，计划举行五个半天的会议，总共30-35个口头报告，描述表面和界面上响应性材料系统的制备、表征和应用，包括接枝聚合物层、自组装单层、多层涂层和微制造结构。NSF的所有资金将用于支持处于职业生涯早期阶段的教职员工和研究生的旅行，这些人可能没有其他资金允许他们参与。将关注在科学和工程学科中传统上代表性不足的群体。

TECHNICAL: A central challenge in polymers research today is the creation of materials that can dynamically alter their structures and properties on demand, or in response to changes in their environment. Surfaces and interfaces represent a particularly attractive area of focus in the design of responsive materials, since the small amount of material that resides at an interface exerts disproportionately large effects on many properties such as wetability, adhesivity, optical appearance and bioactivity. Thus, remarkable changes in properties may be accomplished through the application of relatively mild stimuli to materials with responsive surfaces.NON-TECHNICAL: The purpose of this symposium is to bring together established leaders and rising stars in the area of active and responsive surfaces of five half-day sessions are planned, with a total of 30-35 oral presentations describing the preparation, characterization and application of responsive materials systems at surfaces and interfaces, including grafted polymer layers, self-assembled monolayers, multi-layer coatings, and micro fabricated structures. All of the funds from the NSF will be used to support travel of faculty members in the early stages of their careers, and graduate students, who might not have other funding to allow them to participate. Attention will be give to groups traditionally under-represented in science and engineering disciplines.