RUI: Coe College Undergraduate Research Program in Glass Science

非技术性：在接下来的一年里，该项目包括对氧化物玻璃的基础和应用研究的雄心勃勃和平衡的混合。 玻璃被描述为通用溶剂，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揭示该材料在电池、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的性质和结构表征。 在玻璃科学领域，科学院集团拥有通过许多重要的新颖合成形成玻璃的专业知识。 这项工作正在进行与九个科学院本科生和他们的学生通过他们的NSF-REU网站。关键的更广泛的影响是本科生成为专业科学家的发展。 科学院的本科培养模式包括为每个学生多年的研究。正是这种持续的研究激励学生继续以每年75%的速度进入研究生院。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线的150%）。还有一些其他更广泛的影响，包括小学外展，广泛的领导，培训，并在玻璃和物理社区的经验，高中学生和教师参与这项研究。技术：在2013年，这项研究包括研究新的氧化物玻璃制备的新途径，包括辊淬火，激光悬浮，和玻璃形成的解决方案方法。 研究的重点是玻璃的测定。的物理性质，并将这些性质与光谱测定的原子结构相关联。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.使用10 B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有序（5至10个原子团簇）; 3.为欧洲核子研究中心实验室未来的强子对撞机实验准备量热计用的新玻璃; 4.玻璃中碱金属氧化物含量低时热力学异常现象的研究。在每项活动中，都有一些分项目，包括内部工作和与一系列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、核废料掺入、高能物理探测器和生物/医学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（2013年有12名，其中9名直接由该项目支持，3名来自科学院的REU网站）的实质性高水平研究培训。 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.