"IRES: U.S.-Germany Collaborative Research on Self-Assembled Nanostructures"

“IRES：美德自组装纳米结构合作研究”

• 批准号: 1065466
• 负责人: Keith Gubbins
• 金额: $ 14.87万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-01 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1065466&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; U.S.; Germany; Collaborative; Research

This program will provide a strong international experience for doctoral students at North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, through collaborative research projects and teaching with institutions in and near Berlin, Germany. The research project will focus on interdisciplinary studies of self-assembly of molecules on solid surfaces to form nanostructures. The German institutions involved will be the Technical University of Berlin (the lead institution on the German side), Humboldt University and the Max Planck Institute of Colloid and Interface Science (Golm, Potsdam). The collaborative program will involve 13 faculty members in Germany, and 15 doctoral students there. On the U.S. side the project will involve 12 faculty at NCSU and UNC-Chapel Hill, and will support visits by 15 U.S. doctoral students to Berlin, where they will spend a part of their doctoral study period (a minimum of 11 weeks) working in the overseas partner institution. U.S IRES Fellows will have a U.S. advisor and a co-advisor in the partner institution in Germany, and will continue working on their research project after return to the U.S. The German doctoral students will spend a similar or longer amount of time working in the U.S. host institutions; funding for the visits by German students to the U.S. is available from a grant from the Graduate College program of the German Science Foundation (DFG). The educational program will include course modules in theory, experiment and technology of nanoscience taught by faculty on both sides and made available by video transmission. Regular IRES seminars, in which faculty, students and postdocs give short accounts of their latest results, will be broadcast synchronously as video conferences. There will be an annual meeting of the participants, including German colleagues (students and faculty), to discuss results and to assess the program. The plan described here is the result of workshops & discussions held by the participants in Berlin and Raleigh.Intellectual Merit. The self-assembly of surface-active molecules to form various nano-scale structures on solid surfaces (micellar structures on surfaces and in pores, thin films, patterned films, nanoclusters, etc.) lies at the heart of many biological and physical processes, but the fundamental principles of how molecules self-assemble to form these structures are poorly understood, making it difficult to predict and design nano-structured devices. This graduate program will bring together many experts from diverse fields and institutions to develop a fundamental understanding of such processes.Broader Impact. Improved understanding of directed self-assembly will impact many important technologies, including microelectronics, chemical and biological sensors, photonics, catalysis, drug delivery and medicine. The strong international aspects of the program address an important need in U.S. graduate education at a time of increasing globalization. We believe the international experience gained will have an important and lasting impact on the outlook and careers of the students. Recruitment of students from under-represented groups will be facilitated by our close contacts with North Carolina Central University (NCCU), a nearby (20 miles) HBCU, through coordination with NCSU?s AGEP/Opt-Ed program, and NCSU?s Women in Science & Engineering (WISE) program which is aimed at encouraging women to enter this field. Prior to departure the U.S. students will network with the visiting German students and will be encouraged to take the German for Graduate Students course offered at NCSU. Students whose research is in appropriate areas will have access in Berlin to the North German supercomputer network (at Konrad-Zuse-Institut, Berlin), and to the national synchrotron source BESSY, located at the Helmholtz-Zentrum in Berlin.This project is supported by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) and the NSF Directorate of Engineering (ENG), Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET).

该项目将通过与德国柏林及其附近机构的合作研究项目和教学，为北卡罗来纳州立大学和北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的博士生提供强大的国际经验。该研究项目将集中于分子在固体表面自组装形成纳米结构的跨学科研究。参与的德国机构将是柏林工业大学（德国方面的牵头机构），洪堡大学和马克斯普朗克胶体和界面科学研究所（戈姆，波茨坦）。该合作项目将涉及德国的13名教师和15名博士生。在美国方面，该项目将涉及NCSU和北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的12名教师，并将支持15名美国博士生访问柏林，他们将在海外合作机构度过部分博士学习期（至少11周）。美国IRES研究员将在德国的合作机构有一名美国顾问和一名联合顾问，并将在返回美国后继续从事他们的研究项目。德国博士生将在美国主办机构工作相似或更长时间；德国学生访问美国的经费来自德国科学基金会（DFG）的研究生院项目。该教育计划将包括纳米科学理论、实验和技术的课程模块，由双方教员授课，并通过视频传输提供。在定期的IRES研讨会上，教师、学生和博士后将简短地介绍他们的最新成果，这些研讨会将作为视频会议同步播出。将有一个参与者的年度会议，包括德国同事（学生和教师），讨论结果和评估项目。这里描述的计划是参与者在柏林和罗利举行的讲习班和讨论的结果。知识价值。表面活性分子的自组装在固体表面上形成各种纳米级结构（表面和孔隙，薄膜，图案膜，纳米团簇等）是许多生物和物理过程的核心，但分子如何自组装形成这些结构的基本原理知之甚少，这使得难以预测和设计纳米结构器件。这个研究生课程将汇集来自不同领域和机构的许多专家，以发展对这些过程的基本理解。更广泛的影响。提高对定向自组装的理解将影响许多重要的技术，包括微电子、化学和生物传感器、光子学、催化、药物输送和医学。该项目强大的国际方面解决了在日益全球化的时代美国研究生教育的重要需求。我们相信，获得的国际经验将对学生的前景和职业生涯产生重要而持久的影响。通过与北卡罗来纳中央大学的协调，我们将与北卡罗来纳中央大学（NCCU）保持密切联系，为招收弱势群体的学生提供便利。北卡罗来纳中央大学是附近的HBCU（20英里）。AGEP/Opt-Ed计划和NCSU？“科学与工程领域的女性”（WISE）项目，旨在鼓励女性进入这一领域。在离开之前，美国学生将与来访的德国学生建立联系，并将被鼓励参加NCSU提供的研究生德语课程。在适当领域进行研究的学生将可以访问柏林的北德国超级计算机网络（位于柏林的konrad - zuse - institute），以及位于柏林亥姆霍兹中心的国家同步加速器源BESSY。该项目由美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室（OISE）和美国国家科学基金会工程局（ENG）、化学、生物工程、环境和运输系统部（CBET）支持。