RUI: Coe College Undergraduate Research Program in Glass Science

非技术性：在接下来的一年里，这个项目包括对氧化物玻璃的基础研究和应用研究的雄心勃勃和平衡的混合。玻璃被描述为通用的溶剂，因此可以由许多化合物制成。这项研究包括新玻璃的形成以及性能和结构表征，揭示了该材料在电池、核存储、粒子物理探测器和抗菌生物用途等应用中的潜在用途。在玻璃科学领域，COE学院小组在通过一些重要的新合成方法形成玻璃方面拥有专业知识。这项工作是通过他们的NSF-REU网站与九名COE学院的本科生和他们的学生一起进行的。关键的、更广泛的影响是将本科生培养成专业科学家。COE学院本科培养模式包括为每个学生进行多年的研究。正是这种持续的研究激励着学生以每年75%的速度继续读研究生。超过40%的COE学生是第一代大学毕业生，其中33%来自低收入家庭(不到联邦定义的贫困线的150%)。还有一些其他更广泛的影响，包括扩展到小学，广泛的领导，培训，玻璃和物理界的经验，以及高中生和教师参与这项研究。技术：2013年，这项研究包括研究通过新的途径制备的新氧化物玻璃，包括辊子淬火、激光悬浮和玻璃形成的溶液方法。重点研究了S玻璃的物理性质的测定，并将这些性质与光谱确定的原子结构联系起来。拟议的研究活动分为四个主要领域：1.重要和新型玻璃的制备和研究及其用途；2.利用10B核磁共振、中子散射、原子结构的分子动力学模拟和飞行时间质谱学研究玻璃的中程有序(5至10个原子团)；3.为未来的强子对撞机实验准备新的玻璃；以及4.研究在玻璃中发现的低碱性氧化物含量的热力学反常。在每项活动中都有若干分项目，既包括内部工作，也包括与一组国内和国际合作者进行的研究。玻璃是最实用的材料之一，所研究的玻璃是高储能电池、核废料合并、高能物理探测器和生物/医疗用途的有前途的候选者。这项工作的一个重要方面是对大量本科生进行大量的高水平研究培训(2013年有12名本科生，包括9名由该项目直接支持的本科生和3名来自COE学院REU站点的本科生)。这些学生中有许多是第一代大学生。

NON-TECHNICAL: Over the next year this project includes an ambitious and balanced mixture of basic and applied research on oxide glasses. Glass has been described as the universal solvent and as such allows itself to be made from many compounds. This research includes the formation of new glasses and the property and structural characterizations that reveal the material's potential usefulness in applications such as batteries, nuclear storage, particle physics detectors, and antibacterial biological uses. Within the field of glass science, the Coe College group has expertise in forming glasses by a number of important novel syntheses. The work is being undertaken with nine Coe College undergraduates and their students through their NSF-REU site. The key broader impact is the development of undergraduate students into professional scientists. The Coe College undergraduate training model includes multiple years of research for each student. It is this sustained research that motivates students to continue to graduate schools at a rate of 75% per year. Over 40% of Coe students are first generation college-bound with 33% of them being from low-income families (with less than 150% of the federally-defined poverty level). There are a number of other broader impacts including outreach to grade schools, extensive leadership, training, and experiences within the glass and physics communities, and involvement of high-school students and teachers in this research.TECHNICAL: During 2013, this research includes the study of new oxide glasses prepared by novel pathways including roller quenching, laser levitation, and a solution method of glass formation. The research focuses on the determination of the glass?s physical properties, and relating these properties to the spectroscopically-determined atomic structure. The proposed research activities are divided into four main areas: 1. Preparation and study of important and novel glasses and their uses; 2. Intermediate range order (5 to 10 atom clusters) studies of glasses using 10B nuclear magnetic resonance, neutron scattering, molecular dynamics simulations of atomic structure, and time of flight mass spectroscopy; 3. Preparation of new glasses for calorimeters for future hadron collider experiments at the CERN lab; and 4. Study of a thermodynamic anomaly found at low alkali oxide contents in glasses. Within each activity there are a number of sub-projects consisting of both in-house work and research with a set of domestic and international collaborators. Glass is amongst the most practical of materials and the glasses studied are promising candidates for high energy storage batteries, nuclear waste incorporation, high-energy physics detectors, and biological/medical uses. An important aspect of the work is the substantial high-level research training of a large number of undergraduates (twelve in 2013, including nine supported directly by this project and three from Coe College's REU site). Many of these students are first generation college students.