Travel Support for an ACS PMSE Symposium "Functional Polymer Nanocomposites for Energy Storage and Conversion", March 22-26, 2009, Salt Lake City, UT

ACS PMSE研讨会的差旅支持？功能化聚合物纳米复合材料的能量存储和转换？2009年3月22日至26日，犹他州盐湖城提案摘要：本提案寻求材料研究部聚合物项目的资助，以支持受邀演讲者和主持人在研讨会上的旅行。功能聚合物纳米复合材料的能量存储和转换？将于2009年3月22日至26日在犹他州盐湖城举行的第237届ACS全国会议上举行。本次研讨会由高分子材料：科学与工程学部（PMSE）主办。本次研讨会由宾夕法尼亚州立大学材料科学与工程系的PI和Qing Wang教授共同主办。随着全球油价的飙升和全球气候变暖，能源危机已经成为每个人都面临的紧迫问题。美国的生活水平、社会保障和经济。包括聚合物在内的先进功能材料开始在我们可持续和清洁能源生产、能源运输和储存以及最终用途的最终目标中发挥前所未有的作用。作为一个及时的能源问题研讨会，本次研讨会重点讨论了先进聚合物纳米复合材料在电能存储、聚电解质膜（PEM）燃料电池和有机光伏等领域的应用。1)本次研讨会将通过邀请来自国际和美国学术机构和行业的演讲，重点介绍用于储能和转换的先进聚合物纳米复合材料的前沿科学研究和技术；2)这也将为聚合物纳米复合材料的储能和转换应用的未来方向发光。3)大力开展教育工作，提高国民对聚合物纳米复合材料储能和转化的可行性和重要性的认识。虽然过去的ACS研讨会已经强调了聚合物纳米复合材料，但这次研讨会是ACS第一次强调其在能量存储和转换方面的应用。本次研讨会将为跨学科领域的研究人员提供一个论坛，展示和交流他们在电容器、PEM燃料电池和太阳能电池方面的前沿和/或未发表的功能聚合物纳米复合材料的研究成果。它还为研究生和博士后提供了一个极好的机会，可以从邀请的演讲中学习，并通过参加口头和海报展示相互学习。由于及时的能源焦点，本次研讨会将受到美国和世界范围内广泛的化学，物理和材料研究人员的重大关注。所有受邀演讲的预印本、贡献演讲的预印本和海报将在PMSE预印本的2009年春季卷中发表。本次研讨会鼓励来自学术界和工业界的年轻/刚起步的研究者、女性研究人员、研究生和博士后参与。申请资金的一部分还将用于支持研究生和博士后的旅行，重点是女性、少数民族和代表性不足的群体。

Travel Support for an ACS PMSE Symposium ?Functional Polymer Nanocomposites forEnergy Storage and Conversion?, March 22-26, 2009, Salt Lake City, UTA. Proposal SummaryThis proposal seeks funding from the Polymer Program, Division of Materials Research,to support travels for invited speakers and presenters in a symposium entitled ?Functional Polymer Nanocomposites for Energy Storage and Conversion? to be held at the 237th ACS national meeting, Salt Lake City, UT in March 22-26, 2009. This symposium is sponsored by the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE). The co-organizers of this symposium are the PI and Prof. Qing Wang at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University. With the soaring of global oil prices and global warming, energy crisis has become a pressing issue that challenges everyone?s standards of life, societal security, and economy. Advanced functional materials including polymers start to play an unprecedented role in our ultimate objective of sustainable and clean energy production, energy transportation & storage, and end uses. As a timely symposium on the energy issues, this symposium focuses on applications of advanced polymer nanocomposites in electric energy storage, polyelectrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells, and organic photovoltaics. Three objectives are aimed: 1) This symposium is going to highlight the frontier scientific research and technologies in advanced polymer nanocomposites for energy storage and conversion by invited presentations from international and the U.S. academic institutions and industries; 2) It is also going to shine lights for the future directions of polymer nanocomposites for energy storage and conversionapplications. 3) Educational efforts will be endeavored to enhance the national awareness of the feasibility and importance of polymer nanocomposites for energy storage and conversion. Although the past ACS symposiums have highlighted polymer nanocomposites, this symposium is the first one in ACS to emphasize their applications in energy storage and conversion. Intellectual Merit This symposium will provide a forum for researchers from interdisciplinary fields to present and exchange their cutting edge and/or unpublished results of functional polymer nanocomposites for capacitors, PEM fuel cells, and solar cells. It also provides an excellent opportunity for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to learn from the invited talks andfrom one another by participating in oral and poster presentations. Broad Impact due to the timely energy focus, this symposium will receive significant attention from a broad range of chemistry, physics, and materials researchers in the U.S. and world wide. Preprints of all invited talks, contributed talks, and posters will be published in the Spring 2009 volume of the PMSE Preprint. This symposium encourages participation of young/starting investigators, female researchers, graduate students and postdocs from both academic andindustries. A certain amount of the requested fund will also be used to support travels of graduate students and postdocs with an emphasis on female, minority, and underrepresented groups.