Planning Grant: I/UCRC for The Center for Macromolecular Topology (CMT)

大分子拓扑学I/UCRC计划资助；Gregory Beaucage 1134788密歇根大学；辛辛那提大学和密歇根大学正在合作建立这个拟议中的中心，辛辛那提大学是牵头机构。这是辛辛那提大学和密歇根大学提出的一项计划拨款申请，旨在探索大分子拓扑结构中潜在的I/UCRC。要求在辛辛那提与潜在工业赞助商举行为期两天的规划会议。拟议中的大分子拓扑中心（CMT）将解决聚合物工业对复杂大分子结构的综合控制、表征、建模和模拟的需求，以操纵机械和流变特性。CMT将开发化学工业的人力。该中心将大大加强国家的研究基础设施基础，并计划协调基于互联网的视频课程，包括复杂大分子体系的流变学，散射，合成和建模，这些课程将与大学安排，向工业界和学术界参与者以及公众提供。CMT将积极招收女性和少数民族研究生和本科生。该中心的主要目标是提高工程人员的智力和控制分子拓扑的能力。分子拓扑控制的改进将直接导致从凝胶到轮胎的广泛消费和工业产品的改进；从塑料包装到油的粘度增强。

Planning Grant for an I/UCRC for Macromolecular Topology 1134832 University of Cincinnati; Gregory Beaucage 1134788 University of Michigan; Ronald Larson The University of Cincinnati and the University of Michigan are collaborating to establish the proposed center, with the University of Cincinnati as the lead institution. This is a planning grant request from the University of Cincinnati and the University of Michigan to explore a potential I/UCRC in macromolecular topology. Funds are requested for a two-day planning meeting with potential industrial sponsors in Cincinnati. The proposed Center for Macromolecular Topology (CMT) will address a need in the polymer industry to synthetically control, characterize, model and simulate complex macromolecular architectures to manipulate mechanical and rheological properties. The CMT will develop human capacity in the chemical industry. The center will significantly enhance the nations research infrastructure base, and plans to coordinate internet based video courses on rheology, scattering, synthesis and modeling of complex macromolecular systems that will be available to industrial as well as academic participants and the general public on arrangement with the Universities. CMT will actively recruit women and minority graduate and undergraduate students. The center has as a main goal enhancement of the intellectual capacity of the engineering workforce and capabilities in controlling molecular topology. Improvement in the control of molecular topology will lead directly to improvements in a wide range of consumer and industrial products from gels to tires; from plastic packaging to viscosity enhancement in oils.