NSF Workshop: Frontiers in Polymer Science and Engineering

NSF 研讨会：高分子科学与工程前沿

• 批准号: 1623946
• 负责人: Frank Bates
• 金额: $ 18.3万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-03-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1623946&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Workshop; Frontiers; Polymer; Science

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.

非技术摘要：“NSF 研讨会：高分子科学与工程前沿”项目将探讨高分子科学和高分子材料领域前沿研究和教育的杰出新机会。此类材料在直接影响美国经济、日常生活以及全体人民的健康和福利的无数商业项目中发挥着核心作用。该研讨会将汇集来自全国各地的约 70 名科学家、工程师和教育工作者，他们在大学、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未来研究投资最有前途的机会和关键领域，以维持国家在支撑这一重要多学科领域的科学技术方面的领导地位。研讨会参与者代表了来自全国各地的广泛不同的研究人员和教育工作者群体，他们将共同塑造未来研究和教育的愿景，该愿景将记录在一份综合报告中，并广泛传播给更广泛的社区以及全国各地的政策制定者和管理者。技术摘要：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。这将是一项横跨该领域的十年型研究，是对其前身 2007 年 NSF 全球领先的跨学科聚合物科学与工程研讨会的后续研究。 将研究与先进的实验、理论和计算方法相关的最新进展，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（包括跨越其他科学技术领域的相关领域）相关的最重要的挑战、机遇和新兴领域。为期两天的研讨会将以一系列全体讲座开始，旨在帮助在随后的分组会议中形成详细的讨论，每个分组都涉及来自不同领域的参与者的小组。每次分组会议的集体意见以及对教育和相关机会的评估，将由组委会在研讨会结束后立即形成一份执行摘要草案。组委会将编写一份综合报告，详细说明研讨会的调查结果和结论。该报告将广泛传播并发布在公共网站上。该报告的摘要强调了最重要的发现，将提交在领先的聚合物期刊上发表。