Catalyzing New International Collaborations: A Proposal to Study the Interaction Between Liquid Crystal Polymers and Nanoparticles(rods) Between Chile and the USA

促进新的国际合作：智利和美国之间研究液晶聚合物和纳米粒子（棒）之间相互作用的提案

• 批准号: 1157589
• 负责人: Luz Martinez-Miranda
• 金额: $ 4万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1157589&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Catalyzing; New; International; Collaborations; Proposal

This award supports a new international collaboration between Prof. Eduardo Soto-Bustamante at the University of Chile and the Principal Investigator at the University of Maryland, College Park. The project is focused on studying the interactions of nanoparticles or nanorods with polymer liquid crystals. Specifically it will address the question on whether the ordering of the liquid crystals depends on how the liquid crystal polymer is formed and whether it can be independent of the nanoparticle arrangement. Possible applications of the products are in various technologies, including photovoltaics electro-optics, and in medicine. The project aims to combine the strengths of the participating researchers. The principal investigator and her group are experienced in studying the interaction of liquid crystals and nanoparticles, measurements of their electrical and magnetic properties, and structural characterization of these composites. Prof. Eduardo Soto-Bustamante, from the University of Chile, is a chemist who specializes in the synthesis of ferroelectric liquid crystals and polymeric liquid crystals, and is interested in including nanoparticles into polymeric liquid crystals to investigate their applications. This project will expose the participating students to part of the larger international community involved in liquid crystal research. The students will learn how to communicate between different disciplines, including materials science, physics, and chemistry. The collaboration will expand the reach of the PI?s international collaborations, and will increase the diversity in her group.

该奖项支持智利大学Eduardo Soto-Bustamante教授和马里兰州大学帕克分校首席研究员之间的新国际合作。该项目的重点是研究纳米粒子或纳米棒与聚合物液晶的相互作用。具体来说，它将解决的问题，是否液晶的排序取决于液晶聚合物是如何形成的，以及它是否可以独立于纳米粒子的排列。这些产品可能应用于各种技术，包括光电子学、光电学和医学。该项目旨在联合收割机的参与研究人员的优势。 首席研究员和她的团队在研究液晶和纳米颗粒的相互作用，测量其电和磁特性以及这些复合材料的结构表征方面经验丰富。来自智利大学的Eduardo Soto-Bustamante教授是一位化学家，专门研究铁电液晶和聚合物液晶的合成，并对将纳米粒子纳入聚合物液晶中以研究其应用感兴趣。 该项目将使参与的学生接触到参与液晶研究的更大的国际社会的一部分。学生将学习如何在不同学科之间进行交流，包括材料科学，物理学和化学。此次合作将扩大PI的影响范围？的国际合作，并将增加她的集团的多样性。