Supporting Highlighting and Advancing Recent Developments in Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (SHARED EPR)

该项目建立了一个名为“支持、突出和推进电子顺磁共振最新发展”（SHARED EPR）的研究协调网络，旨在促进电子顺磁共振光谱领域创新仪器和技术的发展和传播。EPR对化学、物理、生物和材料科学等学科的科学研究至关重要。这是一种用于研究从生物分子到聚合物再到半导体等各种样品的结构和动力学的技术。通过EPR获得的信息可以用来了解这些分子或材料的功能，以及如何改进它们。然而，EPR在许多科学学科中的广泛适用性可能会抑制使用该技术的小组之间的有效互动。对于EPR领域的全面发展至关重要的是，将一个学科取得的进展传达给其他学科的研究人员。共享EPR网络旨在确保这些进展从开发它们的实验室转化到需要它们的实验室，无论涉及什么学科。该网络的主要目标是：促进扩大环境评估方法、仪器和技术的进步；促进交叉受精，并在美国EPR社区内建立新的合作研究机会；建立国际合作。该网络将通过带头开展下列网络活动和培训机会来实现这些目标。年度大挑战研讨会将与国家科学会议一起组织，该会议汇集了各种EPR研究人员，以确定和解决EPR光谱学领域面临的主要问题。将开发一个门户网站，为有关环境影响评估研究和资源的信息提供一个集中的地点，并作为非专家进入环境影响评估社区的门户。该网络将赞助EPR技术转移经验，让学生和博士后花时间在其他实验室做实验，学习新的EPR技术，并将这些技术带回来并在自己的实验室中实施。大学预科的少数民族学生将被支持在底特律地区的踏脚石磁共振培训中心参加以研究为基础的科学体验。国际合作将通过共享EPR网络与德国优先计划SPP 1601联盟的互动来促进，该联盟名为“EPR光谱灵敏度的新前沿：从生物细胞到纳米材料”。该项目由分子与细胞生物科学部、化学部和材料研究部共同资助。

This project establishes a Research Coordination Network named "Supporting, Highlighting and Advancing Recent Developments in Electron Paramagnetic Resonance" (SHARED EPR) that aims to promote the development and dissemination of innovative instrumentation and techniques in the area of EPR spectroscopy. EPR is of central importance to scientific research in the disciplines of Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and Materials Science. It is a technique which is used to investigate structure and dynamics in a wide variety of samples, ranging from biological molecules to polymers to semiconductors. The information obtained with EPR is then used to understand how these molecules or materials function, and how improved ones can be made. However, the broad applicability of EPR across many scientific disciplines can inhibit effective interaction between groups that use the technique. It is crucial to the overall growth of the field of EPR that advances achieved in one discipline be communicated to researchers in the other disciplines. The SHARED EPR network is designed to ensure these advances are translated from the lab in which they are developed to the labs in which they are needed, no matter what discipline is involved. The Primary Goals of the network are to: facilitate the advancement of EPR methodology, instrumentation and techniques; foster cross-fertilization and establish new collaborative research opportunities within the U.S. EPR community; and establish international collaborations. The Network will achieve these goals by spearheading the following network activities and training opportunities. An annual Grand Challenge Workshop will be organized in conjunction with a national scientific meeting that brings together a diverse range of EPR researchers to identify and address major issues facing the field of EPR spectroscopy. A web portal will be developed to provide a centralized location for information regarding EPR research and resources and serve as a gateway to the EPR community for non-specialists. The Network will sponsor EPR Technology Transfer Experiences in which students and postdocs spend time and doing experiments in other labs to learn new EPR techniques which they will bring back and implement in their home labs. Pre-college minority students will be supported to participate in a research-based science experience at the Steppingstone Magnetic Resonance Training Center in the Detroit area. International collaborations will be fostered through the interaction of the SHARED EPR Network with the German Priority Program SPP 1601 consortium titled "New Frontiers in Sensitivity for EPR Spectroscopy: From Biological Cells to Nano Materials." This project is co-funded by the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, the Division of Chemistry, and the Division of Materials Research.