RUI: Coe College Undergraduate Research Program in Glass Science

非技术：在接下来的一年里，这个项目包括一个雄心勃勃的、平衡的氧化玻璃基础和应用研究的混合。玻璃被描述为通用溶剂，因此它可以由许多化合物制成。这项研究包括新玻璃的形成，以及揭示材料在电池、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的性质和结构特征。在玻璃科学领域，科学院集团在通过一些重要的新合成形成玻璃方面拥有专业知识。这项工作是由9名科学院本科生和他们的学生通过NSF-REU网站进行的。关键的更广泛的影响是将本科生培养成专业的科学家。Coe学院的本科培养模式包括对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们以每年75%的速度继续读研。超过40%的Coe学生是第一代大学生，其中33%来自低收入家庭（低于联邦定义的贫困水平的150%）。还有许多其他更广泛的影响，包括延伸到小学，广泛的领导，培训，以及玻璃和物理社区的经验，以及高中生和教师参与这项研究。技术方面：2013年，本研究包括采用滚轮淬火、激光悬浮等新途径制备新型氧化玻璃的研究，以及玻璃形成的溶液方法。研究的重点是玻璃？S的物理性质，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。重要新型眼镜的制备、研究及其应用；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研究玻璃的中程序（5到10个原子团簇）；3. 欧洲核子研究中心未来强子对撞机实验用量热计新玻璃的制备和4。玻璃中碱氧化物含量低时的热力学异常研究。在每项活动中都有一些子项目，包括内部工作和与一组国内和国际合作者的研究。玻璃是最实用的材料之一，所研究的玻璃是高能量存储电池、核废料处理、高能物理探测器和生物/医疗用途的有希望的候选者。这项工作的一个重要方面是大量本科生的高水平研究培训（2013年12人，其中9人直接由该项目支持，3人来自Coe学院的REU网站）。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.