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

0968244IRES：斯德哥尔摩皇家理工学院学生在材料研究和界面现象方面的美国-瑞典暑期研究经验这个学生国际研究经验项目(IRES)，由纽约城市学院(CCNY)的首席研究员Ilona Kretzschmar领导，将为美国本科生和研究生提供瑞典斯德哥尔摩皇家理工学院(KTH)的早期职业研究经验。在为期十周的暑期项目中，IRES的参与者将参与材料科学和界面现象的研究，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。学生研究培训将在Kretzschmar(CCNY)教授的实验室和KTH与她在斯德哥尔摩的同行Magnus Johnson、Mamoun Muhammed、金山潘和Mark Rutland教授的合作下进行。CCNY的研究部分将使IRES的参与者熟悉用于制造所谓斑块粒子的粒子表面修饰技术。化学科学与工程学院KTH的研究部分将涉及对IRES参与者进行基于AFM的胶体探针表征的培训，以测量颗粒-颗粒相互作用和片状颗粒系统中的连接物-贴片结合强度。总体而言，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。预计结果将导致颗粒-颗粒相互作用和链接剂-贴片结合的新测量，这可能有助于在表面和腐蚀科学、功能材料和木材化学等领域的应用电化学和生物技术方面的未来工作。这种美国-瑞典IRES的更广泛影响包括将来自代表性不足群体的学生，即少数族裔和女性学生，介绍到一所领先的欧洲机构的研究环境中，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)计划中招募。每名参与者将在学年期间通过每两周一次的会议由PI指导，并为他们在Pi？S实验室的国际研究经验做准备。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一个独特的视角来科学地解决问题，并让他们对胶体研究有一个全球的视角。此外，IRES的参与者将通过在CCNY学生研究杂志上发表文章，以及在城市会议系列、NSF工程教育奖获得者会议和一年一度的博士之桥静修活动中发表演讲来分享他们的经验。与IRES的目标一致，这一传播努力将为许多来自代表性不足群体的美国学生提供大量的榜样，同时展示获得国际研究经验的重要性。总而言之，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，并在共同感兴趣和能力强的领域共享研究和教育资源，来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.