REU Site: Surface and Thin Film Science and Engineering

技术摘要：在国家科学基金会材料研究部的支持下，弗吉尼亚大学拟议的REU站点：表面和薄膜科学与工程，将通过下一代科学家和工程师的专业、社会和认知发展来加强国家的科学和工程劳动力。本科生在大学头几年进行实践研究的机会将激发他们对科学和工程的兴趣，并鼓励他们考虑在这些领域获得更高的学位和职业。因此，该计划的目标之一是招募妇女、代表性不足的少数族裔和残疾个人参加夏季研究体验。选择的技术重点是表面和薄膜科学与工程，这代表了这所大学的优势。该主题本质上是多学科的，因此学生将接触到支持该领域的所有核心学科。许多技术依赖于控制表面和薄膜的性质，包括多相催化、纳米电子学、太阳能电池、腐蚀保护和细胞表面的免疫反应。任何种类的材料、金属、陶瓷或聚合物(或每种材料的混合复合材料)都可以制成薄膜。在工艺上也有类似的多样性：薄膜可以通过真空过程，如蒸发或溅射，通过化学气相沉积，通过表面反应，如氧化和氮化，从溶液和熔体中沉积。在他们的教师导师的配合下，REU的学生将隔离他们可以合理地预期在为期八周的课程中解决的离散的研究问题。然后，学生们将回顾相关文献，设计实验，分析数据，得出结论，生成书面报告，并在会议结束时向队列聚会提交他们的工作。非技术概述：在国家科学基金会材料研究部的支持下，维里吉尼亚大学的REU网站：表面和薄膜科学与工程，将把11名本科生带到弗吉尼亚大学(UVA)进行为期8周的积极指导的夏季研究体验。该计划旨在促进REU学生的职业、社交和认知发展，鼓励他们考虑在科学和工程领域从事职业和研究生学习，并帮助创造更多样化的劳动力和教授队伍。选择纳入该计划的项目反映了弗吉尼亚大学的优势领域，并解决了实质性的科学和工程研究问题。在REU计划期间产生的见解将对飞机、腐蚀、电子学、催化和纳米材料研究产生影响。表面和薄膜科学与工程本质上是多学科的，因此学生将接触到支持该领域的各种核心学科。重大的科学进步需要合作，这是21世纪研究范式的一个方面，对学生来说是必不可少的，通过在这个REU网站的实验室工作，学生将有这个机会。

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:With support from the Division of Materials Research at the National Science Foundation, the proposed REU Site: Surface and Thin Film Science and Engineering at the University of Virginia, will strengthen the nation's science and engineering workforce through the professional, social, and cognitive development of the next generation of scientists and engineers. The opportunities for undergraduates to conduct hands-on research during their initial years at college will stimulate their interest in science and engineering and encourage them to consider advanced degrees and careers in these fields. Accordingly, one of the goals of the program is to recruit women, underrepresented minorities, and individuals with disabilities to participate in the summer research experience. The chosen technical focus on surface and thin film science and engineering represents a strength of the university. The topic is inherently multidisciplinary, hence students will be exposed to the full range of core disciplines that support the field. Many technologies hinge on controlling surface and thin film properties, including heterogeneous catalysis, nanoelectronics, solar cells, corrosion protection, and immunological responses at cell surfaces. Any class of materials, metals, ceramics or polymers (or hybrid composites of each) can be made in thin film form. There is similar diversity in processing: thin films can be deposited by vacuum processes such as evaporation or sputtering, by chemical vapor deposition, by surface reactions such as oxidation and nitridation, from solution, and from the melt. In concert with their faculty mentors, REU students will isolate discrete research problems that they can reasonably expect to address during the eight-week session. The students will then review the relevant literature, design experiments, analyze the data, draw conclusions, generate a written report, and present their work to a gathering of the cohort at the end of the session.NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY:With support from the Division of Materials Research at the National Science Foundation, the REU Site: Surface and Thin Film Science and Engineering, at the University of Viriginia will bring 11 undergraduates to the University of Virginia (UVa) for an 8-week, actively mentored, summer research experience. The program is designed to promote the professional, social, and cognitive development of the REU students, encourage them to consider careers and graduate study in science and engineering, and help create a more diverse workforce and professoriate. The projects chosen for inclusion in this program reflect areas of strength for the University of Virginia and address substantive science and engineering research questions. Insights generated during the REU program will have implications for aircraft, corrosion, electronics, catalysis, and nanomaterials research. Surface and thin film science and engineering is inherently multidisciplinary, hence students will be exposed to the full range of core disciplines that support the field. Significant scientific progress requires collaboration, an aspect of the twenty-first research paradigm that is essential for students to experience, and by working in the labs at this REU site, students will have this opportunity.