IRES: U.S.-Swedish Summer Research Experience for Students at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, on Materials Research and Interfacial Phenomena

0968244IRES：美国-瑞典斯德哥尔摩皇家理工学院学生暑期研究经验，材料研究和界面现象这个国际学生研究经验项目（IRES），由首席研究员（PI） Ilona Kretzschmar领导，在纽约城市学院（CCNY），将为美国本科生和研究生提供在瑞典斯德哥尔摩皇家理工学院（KTH）的早期职业研究经验。在为期十周的暑期课程中，IRES参与者将参与材料科学和界面现象研究，并将获得胶体组装，颗粒表面改性和颗粒-颗粒相互作用表征的实践经验。学生的研究训练将在Kretzschmar教授（CCNY）的实验室和KTH进行，并与她在斯德哥尔摩的同行Magnus Johnson教授、Mamoun Muhammed教授、Jinshan Pan教授和Mark Rutland教授合作。CCNY的研究部分将使IRES参与者熟悉用于创建所谓的片状粒子的粒子表面修饰技术。KTH化学科学与工程学院的研究部分将包括对IRES参与者进行基于afm的胶体探针表征的培训，以测量颗粒-颗粒相互作用和斑块颗粒系统中的连接片结合强度。总的来说，这些活动应该有助于建立一个由初级和高级研究人员组成的不断增长的美国-瑞典材料网络。结果有望导致粒子-粒子相互作用和连接片结合的新测量方法，这可能有助于未来在表面和腐蚀科学、功能材料和木材化学等领域应用电化学和生物技术的工作。这个美国-瑞典IRES的更广泛的影响包括将学生从代表性不足的群体（即少数民族和女性学生）引入欧洲领先机构的研究环境，同时为所有参与者提供早期职业指导。IRES的参与者将从格罗夫工程学院和纽约市-路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）项目中招募。每位参与者将在学年期间通过每两周一次的会议得到PI的指导，并为他们在PI的国际研究经验做好准备。s实验室。在前往斯德哥尔摩之前，IRES参与者将与他们的KTH导师和PI一起制定夏季研究计划。研究经验本身将为学生提供解决问题的科学方法的独特视角，并为他们提供胶体研究的全球视角。此外，IRES的参与者将通过发表在CCNY学生研究期刊上的文章、在城市会议系列、美国国家科学基金会工程教育奖获得者会议上的演讲，以及一年一度的“通往博士学位的桥梁”静修活动，分享他们的经验。与IRES的目标一致，这种传播努力将为美国学生（许多来自代表性不足的群体）提供充足的榜样，同时展示获得国际研究经验的重要性。总的来说，这符合NSF的目标，即通过使美国和欧洲的专家能够结合互补的人才，在共同感兴趣和有能力的领域分享研究和教育资源，从而促进科学知识的发展。

0968244IRES: U.S.-Swedish Summer Research Experience for Students at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, on Materials Research and Interfacial Phenomena This program for International Research Experience for Students (IRES), headed by principal investigator (PI) Ilona Kretzschmar, at the City College of New York (CCNY), will provide U.S. undergraduate and graduate students with early career research experience at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. During focused ten-week summer programs, IRES participants will be involved in materials science and interfacial phenomena research and will gain hands-on experience with colloidal assembly, particle surface modification, and particle-particle interaction characterization.Student research training will occur in the laboratory of Professor Kretzschmar (CCNY) and at KTH, in cooperation with her counterparts in Stockholm, Professors Magnus Johnson, Mamoun Muhammed, Jinshan Pan, and Mark Rutland. The research component at CCNY will familiarize IRES participants with particle surface modification techniques that are used to create so-called patchy particles. The research component at KTH, in the School of Chemical Science and Engineering, will involve the training of IRES participants in AFM-based colloidal probe characterization for measuring particle-particle interactions and linker-patch binding strengths in patchy particle systems. Overall, these activities should help build a growing US-Swedish materials network of junior and senior researchers. Results are expected to lead to novel measurements of particle-particle interactions and linker-patch binding which may contribute to future work in applied electrochemistry and biotechnology in areas such as surface and corrosion science, functional materials, and wood chemistry. The broader impacts of this US-Swedish IRES include the introduction of students from underrepresented groups, i.e., minority and female students, to a research environment at a leading European institution while providing all participants with early career mentoring. IRES participants will be recruited from the Grove School of Engineering and the New York City-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program. Each participant will be mentored by the PI through biweekly meetings during the academic year and prepared for their international research experience in the PI?s laboratory. Prior to their travel to Stockholm, IRES participants will develop a summer research plan with their KTH mentors and the PI. The research experience itself will provide the students with a unique perspective on the scientific approach to problem solving and give them a global perspective on colloids research. Further, IRES participants will share their experience via publications in the CCNY Journal for Student Research and presentations at the Urban Conference Series, the NSF Engineering Education Awardees Conference, and an annual Bridge-to-the-Doctorate retreat. Consistent with IRES objectives, this dissemination effort will provide U.S. students, many from from underrepresented groups, with ample role models while demonstrating the importance of obtaining international research experience. Altogether, this meets the NSF goal of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling experts in the United States and Europe to combine complementary talents and share research and education resources in areas of strong mutual interest and competence.