MIT Materials Research Science and Engineering Center - Full Proposal

麻省理工学院在材料科学和工程方面有着非常强大和广泛的努力，跨越了科学和工程学院的11个不同的学术部门。麻省理工学院MRSEC，当地称为材料科学与工程中心（CMSE），是一个跨学校的跨学科中心，通过鼓励和支持合作研究以及创新的教育和工业推广计划，发挥着将这种多样化的材料社区聚集在一起的关键作用。MRSEC的使命是鼓励材料科学和工程领域的高影响力、基础研究和教育，以支持现有和新兴技术，满足当前和未来的社会需求。为了完成这一使命，CMSE使麻省理工学院教师之间的跨学科合作研究和麻省理工学院教师和其他大学，工业和政府实验室的研究人员。另一个关键目标是开发最先进的共享设施，为CMSE MRSEC调查人员和更广泛的麻省理工学院和美国材料社区提供和维护关键的支持仪器。该中心提供了几个教育和推广计划，包括针对初中和高中学生，K-12教师，妇女和少数民族，本科生和研究生的计划。技术摘要MRSEC研究计划支持协作，跨学科的研究，解决重要的复杂问题，不容易解决没有来自不同领域的研究人员的多元化团队。这一目标是通过跨学科研究小组（IRG），种子项目和共享实验设施（SEF）的支持来实现的。在IRG-1中，重点是对多流体系统中纤维内流体不稳定性的详细基础研究。 从这一基础研究将产生新的加工范例，用于创建任意大小，几何形状和组成的纳米球，具有预期的发现，包括基础和应用，跨越新型神经元接口设备，药物输送载体，并可能在化学和电子工业。 IRG-II专注于解开复杂生物水凝胶中结构元素的多方面相互作用。 该小组旨在了解生物水凝胶独特性质的基础生物学，化学和材料科学，并利用这些知识设计和创造合成模拟物，这些模拟物有可能彻底改变水净化技术和一系列生物医学应用的设计。最后，IRG-III重点研究了含氧缺陷材料中一个尚未解决的关键问题：即氧缺陷与复合氧化物界面处声子、自旋和电荷传输之间存在何种耦合机制。 由此产生的基础科学可以为开发新一代高效能量转换和存储设备提供基础。

Nontechnical abstractMIT has an exceptionally strong and wide-ranging effort in materials science and engineering that cuts across eleven different academic departments in the schools of science and engineering. The MIT MRSEC, locally known as the Center for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE), is a cross-school interdisciplinary center that plays the critical role of bringing this diverse materials community together by encouraging and supporting collaborative research and innovative educational and industrial outreach programs. The mission of the MRSEC is to encourage high impact, fundamental research and education in the science and engineering of materials in support of existing and emerging technologies that will address the current and future needs of society. To accomplish this mission, CMSE enables collaborative interdisciplinary research among MIT faculty and between MIT faculty and the researchers of other universities, industry, and government laboratories. Another key objective is the development of state-of-the-art shared facilities that provide and maintain critically enabling instrumentation for CMSE MRSEC investigators and the broader MIT and US materials community. The center offers several education and outreach programs including programs directed at middle and high school students, K-12 teachers, women and minorities, undergraduates, and graduate students. Technical abstractThe MRSEC research program supports collaborative, interdisciplinary research that addresses important complex problems not easily solved without a diverse team of researchers from different fields. This objective is realized through the support of interdisciplinary research groups (IRGs), seed projects, and shared experimental facilities (SEFs). In IRG-1, the focus is on detailed fundamental studies of in-fiber fluid instabilities in multiple fluid systems. From this fundamental research will arise new processing paradigms for creating nanospheres of arbitrary size, geometry and composition with expected discoveries, both fundamental and applied, spanning novel neuronal interface devices, delivery vehicles for pharmaceuticals, and potentially in the chemical and electronics industries. IRG-II focuses on unraveling the multi-faceted interplay of structural elements in complex biological hydrogels. This group seeks to understand the fundamental biology, chemistry and materials science underlying the unique properties of biological hydrogels and use this knowledge to design and create synthetic mimics that have the potential to revolutionize the design of water purification technologies and a range of biomedical applications. Finally, IRG-III focuses on a key unresolved issue in materials with oxygen defects: namely, what coupling mechanisms exist between oxygen defects and the transport of phonons, spin and charge at the interfaces of complex oxides. The resultant basic science could provide the foundation for the development of a new generation of high-efficiency energy conversion and storage devices.