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

0968244 IRES：美国-瑞典夏季研究经验的学生在皇家理工学院，斯德哥尔摩，材料研究和界面现象这一计划的国际研究经验的学生（IRES），由首席研究员（PI）伊洛娜Kretzschmar，在纽约城市学院（CCNY），将在瑞典斯德哥尔摩的皇家理工学院（KTH）为美国本科生和研究生提供早期职业研究经验。 在为期10周的暑期项目中，IRES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教授（CCNY）的实验室和KTH与她在斯德哥尔摩的同行，Magnus约翰逊教授，Mamoun Schummed教授，潘金山和马克·拉特兰。 CCNY的研究部分将使IRES参与者熟悉用于创建所谓的片状颗粒的颗粒表面改性技术。KTH化学科学与工程学院的研究部分将涉及IRES参与者在基于AFM的胶体探针表征方面的培训，用于测量颗粒间的相互作用和斑块状颗粒系统中的连接体-斑块结合强度。 总的来说，这些活动应该有助于建立一个不断增长的初级和高级研究人员的美国-瑞典材料网络。 结果预计将导致新的测量颗粒之间的相互作用和连接器补丁绑定，这可能有助于未来的工作在应用电化学和生物技术领域，如表面和腐蚀科学，功能材料，木材化学。 这一美国-瑞典IRES的更广泛影响包括引入来自代表性不足群体的学生，即，少数民族和女学生，在一个领先的欧洲机构的研究环境，同时为所有参与者提供早期职业辅导。 IRES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。 每个参与者将在学年期间通过双周会议由PI指导，并为他们在PI的国际研究经验做好准备。的实验室。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参与者将通过在CCNY学生研究杂志上的出版物和城市会议系列，NSF工程教育获奖者会议以及年度桥梁博士务虚会上的演讲分享他们的经验。与IRES的目标一致，这种传播工作将为美国学生，许多来自代表性不足的群体，提供充足的榜样，同时证明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联合收割机互补人才，并在共同感兴趣和有能力的领域分享研究和教育资源，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.