PFI: A Multinational Partnership to Incite Innovation via New Generation Tailored Polymers for Interfaces

PFI：跨国合作伙伴通过新一代接口定制聚合物激发创新

• 批准号: 0917730
• 负责人: Robert Lochhead
• 金额: $ 59.97万
• 依托单位: University of Southern Mississippi
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0917730&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; Multinational; Partnership; Incite; Innovation

This Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project--a Type III (A:C) partnership between University of Southern Mississippi (USM) an NSF PFI graduated grantee (0227827), and Jones County Junior College (JCJC) (Laurel, MS), an institution new to the PFI Program (defined as one that has never been a PFI grantee)--focuses on the processes for creating new polymers and in doing so represents an opportunity to raise awareness and acceptance of high-throughput experimentation into the mainstream of industrial chemistry. In addition students will be exposed to the range of companies that use such techniques internationally. The proposal selects a specific focus; namely, polymeric/surface interactions important for delivery and control of active ingredients in consumer products that can bear the high cost of functionally tuned specialty polymers. If successful, the proposed activity will introduce new concepts and tools that will accelerate the rate of discovery. The members of this large multidisciplinary team, which collectively brings substantial resources to this major effort, are at the frontiers of their respective areas and the resulting collaboration will yield results that should advance scientific understanding as well as increase commercial intelligence.The project is aimed directly at bottlenecks in discovery, innovation and commercialization. The proposed team will be partnered with world-leading companies which will implement the successes of the project. By advancing high throughput experimentation, the route to discovery will be accelerated and by linking with large multinational companies, commercialization of entrepreneurial innovations will be sped to market by the global logistics of the multinational corporations. The proposed activity will prepare the advanced workforce that will be necessary to master the concepts, the skills, and the new tools. The attention that the proposers have paid to the education and development of that workforce should yield rich dividends, and the lessons learned will be publicized broadly and are likely to be relevant to other industries and other ventures.Partners at the inception of the project are Academic Institutions: University of Southern Mississippi (lead institution), Jones Country Junior College, Louisiana Tech University, Petal High School, State Board of Community and Junior Colleges, and University of Mississippi; Private Sector Organizations: Ablitec Technologies; Amerchol Division of Dow Chemical; BASF; Business Launchpoint; Chemspeed Technologies USA and Switzerland, DSM Nutritional Products-USA, Holland, and Switzerland; Glactech; Glaxo Smith Kline; Hub City Technologies; Hybrid Plastics; Johnson and Johnson; MBM Tech; Mississippi Power; Scigenesis; The Procter & Gamble Company; and Trechem; and Local Government Organizations: Areas Development Partnership, Mississippi Development Authority, and Mississippi Technology Alliance.

该创新合作伙伴关系（PFI）项目--南密西西比大学（USM）（NSF PFI毕业受资助者（0227827））和琼斯县初级学院（JCJC）（月桂，MS）（PFI计划的新机构（定义为从未获得PFI资助者））之间的III型（A：C）合作伙伴关系--专注于创建新聚合物的过程，并在这样做的过程中代表了一个机会，以提高对工业化学主流高通量实验的认识和接受度。 此外，学生将接触到在国际上使用这种技术的公司的范围。 该提案选择了一个具体的重点，即聚合物/表面相互作用的重要性，交付和控制的活性成分的消费品，可以承受高成本的功能调整的特种聚合物。 如果成功，拟议的活动将引入新的概念和工具，加快发现的速度。这个庞大的多学科团队的成员共同为这一重大努力带来了大量资源，他们处于各自领域的前沿，由此产生的合作将产生促进科学理解和增加商业情报的成果。该项目直接针对发现，创新和商业化的瓶颈。拟议的团队将与世界领先的公司合作，这些公司将实施该项目的成功。通过推进高通量实验，将加速发现之路，通过与大型跨国公司建立联系，将通过跨国公司的全球物流加快企业创新的商业化。拟议的活动将培养掌握概念、技能和新工具所需的先进劳动力。建议者对劳动力的教育和发展所给予的关注应该会产生丰厚的回报，所吸取的经验教训将广泛宣传，并可能与其他行业和其他企业有关。南密西西比大学（牵头机构）、琼斯乡村初级学院、路易斯安那理工大学、花瓣高中、社区和初级学院州立委员会和密西西比大学;私营部门组织：Ablitec Technologies;陶氏化学Amerchol分部;巴斯夫;业务启动点;美国和瑞士Chemspeed技术公司; DSM营养产品-美国、荷兰和瑞士; Glactech; Glaxo Smith Kline; Hub City Technologies;混合塑料;约翰逊和约翰逊; MBM Tech;密西西比电力公司; Scigenesis;宝洁公司; Trechem;以及当地政府组织&：地区发展伙伴关系，密西西比发展管理局和密西西比技术联盟。