NSF Workshop: Frontiers in Polymer Science and Engineering

非技术总结：“美国国家科学基金会研讨会：高分子科学与工程前沿”项目将研究高分子科学和高分子材料领域前沿的研究和教育的新机遇。这类材料在无数的商业项目中发挥着核心作用，直接影响着美国的经济、日常生活以及全体人民的健康和福利。研讨会将聚集来自全国各地的大约70名科学家、工程师和教育工作者，他们分别在大学、公司和国家实验室工作，代表了广泛的专业领域。一个中心目标是确定最有希望的机会和关键领域，以便今后投资于必要的研究，以维持国家在支撑这一至关重要的多学科领域的科学和技术方面的领导地位。讲习班的参与者代表了来自全国各地的一个广泛不同的研究人员和教育工作者群体，他们将共同塑造一个未来研究和教育的愿景，这个愿景将被纳入一份全面的报告，广泛传播给更广泛的社区以及全国各地的决策者和管理人员。技术概述：本次研讨会将讨论一系列全面的主题，旨在确定聚合物科学与工程跨学科领域令人兴奋和有前途的未来机会。这将是一个跨越该领域的十年型研究，继2007年NSF跨学科全球领先聚合物科学与工程研讨会之后。与先进的最先进的实验、理论和计算方法相关的最新发展将被审查，目的是确定与聚合物设计和合成、分子和结构表征、广泛的材料特性、加工以及大分子对技术和社会的影响相关的最重要的挑战、机遇和新兴领域。包括跨越其他科学和技术领域的相关领域。为期两天的研讨会将以一系列全体演讲开始，旨在帮助在随后的分组会议中形成详细的讨论，每个分组会议由来自不同领域的参与者组成的小组参与。每次分组会议的集体投入，以及对教育和相关机会的评估，将在讲习班结束后立即由组委会形成执行摘要草案。组委会将编写一份全面的报告，详细说明讲习班的调查结果和结论。本报告将广泛散发，并刊登在公共网站上。该报告的摘要，突出了最重要的发现，将提交给一家领先的聚合物杂志发表。

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY:The project "NSF Workshop: Frontiers in Polymer Science and Engineering" will examine outstanding new opportunities for research and education at the forefront of the field of polymer science and polymeric materials. This class of materials plays a central role in innumerable items of commerce that directly affect the US economy, the daily lives, and the health and welfare of our entire population. The workshop will draw together approximately 70 scientists, engineers, and educators from around the nation, working in universities, companies, and national laboratories, and representing a broad diversity of areas of expertise. A central goal is to identify the most promising opportunities and critical areas for future investment in the research necessary to sustain national leadership in the science and technology that underpins this vital and multidisciplinary field. Workshop participants, representing a broadly diverse group of researchers and educators from around the nation, will collectively shape a vision for future research and education that will be captured in a comprehensive report, to be widely disseminated to the broader community and to policy makers and administrators across the country. TECHNICAL SUMMARY:This workshop will address a comprehensive set of topics aimed at identifying exciting and promising future opportunities across the interdisciplinary field of polymer science and engineering. It will be a decadal-type study across the horizon of the field, following up on its predecessor, the 2007 NSF Workshop on Interdisciplinary Globally-Leading Polymer Science and Engineering. Latest developments associated with advancing state-of-the-art experimental, theoretical, and computational methods will be examined with the goal of identifying the most important challenges, opportunities, and emerging areas associated with polymer design and synthesis, molecular and structural characterization, a wide range of material properties, processing, and the impact of macromolecules on technology and society, including on related fields that span other areas of science and technology. The two-day workshop will begin with a set of plenary lectures designed to help shape detailed discussions in subsequent break-out sessions, each involving a group drawn from a diverse spectrum of participants. Collective inputs from each breakout session, along with accompanying assessments of educational and related opportunities, will be formed into a draft executive summary by the organizing committee immediately following the workshop. A comprehensive report will be prepared by the organizing committee detailing the findings and conclusions of the workshop. This report will be widely disseminated and posted on a public website. A summary of the report, highlighting the most important findings, will be submitted for publication in a leading polymer journal.