2017 Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems GRC

非技术和技术总结：本次戈登研究会议(GRC)聚焦于复杂、活性和适应性材料系统这一新兴领域，并得到美国国家科学基金会材料研究部生物材料和聚合物项目的支持。它将在确定这一广泛的、跨学科的主题中的关键研究领域并帮助指导新的科学努力方面发挥重要作用。有待探索的领域包括能够感知、驱动、能量采集、移动、自修复和自组织的适应性材料。需要操纵与仿生系统相关的耗能元件的动态行为，这就需要在建模和合成方面取得新的进展。这一GRC的成果将涉及一种全系统的方法来创造通过消耗或转换能量来执行有用功能的材料/装置。会议可能有助于制定下一代能效设备的设计规则，这些设备将以自我维持的方式运行。它还将把一个广泛多样的群体聚集在一起，其中包括刚开始职业生涯的年轻研究人员以及更有经验和更资深的参与者。这些群体之间的互动可能会对新科学家的职业生涯产生持久的影响。鼓励博士后研究人员和研究生张贴海报，促进广泛的讨论和科学互动。

NON-TECHNICAL AND TECHNICAL SUMMARY:This new Gordon Research Conference (GRC) is focused on the emerging area of complex active and adaptive material systems and is being supported by the Biomaterials and Polymers Programs of the NSF Division of Materials Research. It will serve an important role in pinpointing critical research areas in this broad, interdisciplinary topic and helping guide new scientific efforts. Areas to be explored include adaptive materials that are capable of sensing, actuation, energy harvesting, locomotion, self-repair, and self-organization. The need to manipulate the dynamic behavior of energy-consuming elements related to biomimetic systems will necessitate new advances in both modeling and synthetic efforts. Outcomes of this GRC would involve a whole-systems approach to creating materials/devices that perform useful functions by consuming or transducing energy. The meeting could help formulate design rules for the next generation of energy-efficient devices that operate in a self-sustained manner. It will also bring together a broadly diverse group that includes young researchers at the beginning of their careers as well as more experienced and senior participants. Interactions among these groups could have a lasting influence on the careers of new scientists. Postdoctoral researchers and graduate students will be encouraged to present posters to promote extensive discussions and scientific interactions.