Travel Support for Domestic Invited Speakers to Attend the "Emerging Areas in Polymer Science and Engineering" Program at the 2012 AIChE Fall Meeting

技术和非技术摘要：该奖项为美国化学工程师学会(AIChE)年度会议上的两个特别会议提供部分支持，这两个会议的重点将是“聚合物科学和工程的新兴领域”。PI组织了这些会议，以突出聚合物科学的最新进展，重点关注广泛的聚合物社区感兴趣的实验、理论和模拟主题。每一次会议将有来自不同职业阶段的学术研究人员讨论及时和重要的主题。此外，这些会议将强调化学工程界正在进行的和正在出现的与聚合物有关的活动的广度和深度。这些会议将在2012年秋季AIChE会议期间(10月28日至11月2日)在宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡举行，这两个特别会议的目的是强调聚合物科学和工程的新领域，以及强调在更成熟的聚合物科学领域出现的机会和尚未探索的主题。尽管讲座涵盖了一系列聚合物科学主题，但总的主题是使用聚合物系统的纳米工程来操纵材料的结构、性能和功能。每堂课的演讲将突出聚合物科学和工程领域最新的理论、模拟和实验进展，概述几种前沿方法，以解决与能量储存和生成、药物输送、纳米模板、涂层、纳米复合材料和生物材料有关的关键问题。演讲者在研究主题、研究方法(实验/理论/模拟)、职业地位、性别和种族方面代表了不同的聚合物科学家群体。

TECHNICAL AND NON-TECHNICAL ABSTRACT:This award provides partial support for two special sessions at the annual American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) meeting that will be focused on "Emerging Areas in Polymer Science and Engineering." The PIs have organized these sessions to highlight recent advances in polymer science, focused on experimental, theoretical, and simulation topics of interest to the broad polymer community. Each session will contain academic researchers from various stages in their careers discussing timely and important topics. Furthermore, these sessions will emphasize the breadth and depth of on-going and emerging polymer-related activities in the chemical engineering community. The sessions will take place during the 2012 Fall AIChE Meeting (October 28-November 2) in Pittsburgh, PA.The purpose of the two special sessions is to highlight new areas of polymer science and engineering, as well as to underscore emerging opportunities and unexplored themes in more established areas of polymer science. Though the talks cover an array of polymer science topics, the overall theme is the use of nanoscale engineering of polymer systems to manipulate materials structure, properties, and function. The combination of the talks in each session will highlight recent theoretical, simulation, and experimental advances in polymer science and engineering, providing an overview of several cutting-edge methodologies being employed to tackle key problems related to energy storage and generation, drug delivery, nanoscale templating, coatings, nanocomposites, and biomaterials. The speakers represent a diverse group of polymer scientists in terms of research topics, research methodology (experimental/theoretical/simulation) career status, gender, and ethnicity.