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协会（AIChE）年会上的两个特别会议提供部分支持，该会议将重点关注“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，重点是广泛的聚合物社区感兴趣的实验，理论和模拟主题。 每一次会议将包含来自不同阶段的学术研究人员在他们的职业生涯讨论及时和重要的话题。此外，这些会议将强调化学工程界正在进行的和新兴的聚合物相关活动的广度和深度。 会议将在2012年秋季AIChE会议（10月28日至11月2日）在匹兹堡，PA。两个特别会议的目的是突出聚合物科学和工程的新领域，以及强调新兴的机会和未开发的主题在更成熟的聚合物科学领域。 虽然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级工程来操纵材料结构，性能和功能。 在每个会议的会谈的组合将突出聚合物科学和工程的最新理论，模拟和实验进展，提供了几个前沿方法的概述，用于解决与能量存储和发电，药物输送，纳米模板，涂料，纳米复合材料和生物材料相关的关键问题。 发言者代表了研究主题、研究方法（实验/理论/模拟）、职业地位、性别和种族等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.