UW CEMRI on Structured Interfaces

威斯康星州大学（UW）-麦迪逊CEMRI建立在国家和国际合作网络上，同时应对材料研究和工程的全球挑战，为材料教育环境带来新的国际视角，使区域中西部和国家机构受益，并形成区域联盟，将超越个别研究领域，并大大推进整个上中西部的材料研究和教育的气候。CEMRI联合了大量的研究人员，他们都专注于“结构化接口”的中心主题。“拟议的CEMRI分为三个跨学科研究小组（IRG）和一个跨学科教育小组（IEG）。他们的活动总结如下：IRG 1：来自不稳定世界的新半导体通过获得应变、尺寸和柔性对其相行为、稳定性、缺陷成核和性能的影响的基本理解，探索新的多元素化合物和半导体材料的创造。IRG 2：分子与电子动力学无机界面开发和应用的电荷传输附近和有机和无机材料之间的界面的基本理解。它通过电子传输和结构动力学，理论，设备制造和新接口的发展的最先进的探头。 IRG 3：功能液晶组件、材料和界面设计、合成和加工新型功能液晶材料（LC）、复合材料和界面。它通过融合多功能聚合物和介晶的设计与软各向异性材料界面处分子组装的限制和动态有序研究的策略来实现这一点。CEMRI的构思方式使每个IRG和IEG能够以自给自足的方式发挥作用。通过UW和几个非UW参与者的组合，每个IRG代表嵌入CEMRI定义的区域和国际中心的小型网络。然而，在界面的基本物理和化学及其在设备中的应用，包括其制备，表征和理论描述的共同兴趣，提供了IRGs之间的自然连接。UW CEMRI还包括一个跨学科教育组（IEG），在中心的使命中发挥着不可或缺的作用。在各种产品中，IEG生产的教学辅助工具为不同的受众带来了尖端研究的兴奋。由UW CEMRI生产的套件是基于该中心的研究，并用于说明材料科学和工程的重要性及其在解决世纪社会面临的重大挑战中的作用。CEMRI还在其国际环境治理网站上发布内容，并免费向公众提供。CEMRI的本科生研究经验和教师研究经验计划有助于确保不同群体的技术能力的学生被吸引到材料科学和工程职业。CEMRI还支持和运营最先进的材料表征设施，作为整个上中西部地区材料研究的焦点。该中心是材料设施研究网络（MFRN）的参与者，其目标是向全国各地的用户提供世界级的仪器。* NSF材料研究科学与工程中心（MRSEC）

The University of Wisconsin (UW) - Madison CEMRI is founded on a network of national and international collaborations that will simultaneously tackle global challenges in materials research and engineering, bring new international perspectives to the materials educational environment, benefit regional Midwest and national institutions, and form regional alliances that will transcend individual research areas and vastly advance the climate for materials research and education throughout the Upper Midwest. The CEMRI unites a wide array of researchers all focused on the central theme of "Structured Interfaces."The proposed CEMRI is organized into three interdisciplinary research groups (IRGs) and an interdisciplinary education group (IEG). Their activities are summarized as follows:IRG 1: New Semiconductors from an Unstable World explores the creation of new multi-element compounds and semiconductor materials by gaining a fundamental understanding of the effects of strain, dimension, and flexibility on their phase behavior, stability, defect nucleation and properties.IRG 2: Molecular and Electronic Dynamics at Organic-Inorganic Interfaces develops and applies a fundamental understanding of charge transport near and across interfaces between organic and inorganic materials. It does so through state-of-the-art probes of electronic transport and structural dynamics, theory, device fabrication and the development of new interfaces. IRG 3: Functional Liquid Crystalline Assemblies, Materials and Interfaces designs, synthesizes and processes new classes of functional liquid crystalline materials (LCs), composites and interfaces. It does so through strategies that fuse the design of multifunctional polymers and mesogens with studies of confinement and dynamic ordering of molecular assemblies at interfaces of soft anisotropic materials.The CEMRI has been conceived in a manner that enables each IRG and the IEG to function in a self-sufficient manner. With a combination of UW and several non-UW participants, each IRG represents a small network embedded in the regional and international hub defined by the CEMRI. However, a common interest in the fundamental physics and chemistry of interfaces and their application in devices, including their preparation, characterization and theoretical description, provides a natural connection between the IRGs.The UW CEMRI also includes an Interdisciplinary Education Group (IEG) that plays an integral role in the center's mission. Amongst a variety of products, the IEG produces instructional aids that bring the excitement of cutting-edge research to diverse audiences. Kits produced by the UW CEMRI are based on the center's research, and serve to illustrate the importance of materials science and engineering and its role in solving grand challenges facing society in the 21st century. The CEMRI also distributes content on its IEG website, which it makes available to the public at no cost. The CEMRI's Research Experiences for Undergraduates and Research Experiences for Teachers programs help ensure that diverse groups of technically able students are attracted to careers in materials science and engineering. The CEMRI also supports and operates state-of-the-art materials characterization facilities that serve as a focal point for materials research throughout the Upper Midwest region. The center is a participant in the Materials Facilities Research Network (MFRN), whose goal is to expand access to world-class instrumentation to users throughout the nation. * a NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)