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

为年轻教师和研究生参加 ACS 全国会议“主动和响应表面”研讨会提供差旅支持，2009 年 3 月 22 日至 26 日，犹他州盐湖城

• 批准号: 0838022
• 负责人: Ryan Hayward
• 金额: $ 0.3万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0838022&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; Support; Young; Faculty; Graduate

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.

技术支持：当今聚合物研究的一个核心挑战是创造能够根据需求或响应环境变化动态改变其结构和性能的材料。 表面和界面代表了响应材料设计中特别有吸引力的焦点区域，因为驻留在界面处的少量材料对许多性能（例如润湿性、粘附性、光学外观和生物活性）产生不成比例的大影响。 因此，通过对具有响应表面的材料施加相对温和的刺激，可以实现性能的显著变化。本次研讨会的目的是汇集既定的领导者和后起之秀在该地区的积极和响应表面的五个半天的会议计划，共有30-35口头介绍描述的准备，表征和响应材料系统在表面和界面的应用，包括接枝聚合物层，自组装单层，多层涂层和微加工结构。 所有来自NSF的资金将用于支持教师在职业生涯早期的旅行，以及研究生，他们可能没有其他资金允许他们参与。 将注意在科学和工程学科中历来代表性不足的群体。