2018 Bioinspired Materials: Bioinspired Multifunctional Dynamic Materials

该奖项为学生和年轻研究人员的旅行和会议注册费提供支持，作为2018年6月24日至29日在瑞士Les Diablerets举行的2018年戈登研究会议生物启发材料的参与者。会议将允许年轻的研究人员与建立研究人员网络，讨论关于如何利用或模仿设计以及在自然界中使用的方法来实现它们的新想法和未来概念的前沿研究。本研究的总体目标是发展对天然材料的合成，定向自组装和层次组织的基本理解，并利用这种理解来设计新的合成材料，其结构，性能和功能模仿天然材料或生物物质。本次戈登会议将汇集生物医学工程，材料科学，合成生物学，遗传学和临床医学的研究人员，讨论新的生物启发人工材料领域的前沿研究，这些材料在特定应用中具有高功能性。这是一个跨学科的会议，旨在建立各领域之间的桥梁，以推进这一领域的科学和工程。特别是，会议将重点关注如何将特定材料设计成与生物实体“共生”的基本理解，以及如何使生物材料的功能与其生物对应物相似。会议将包括广泛的研究人员，从研究生和博士后学员到这一领域的世界领导者，以传播最新进展并建立联系，推动这一关键研究领域向前发展。奖励资金将用于支持学生和受训者，使他们能够展示他们的研究，并发展必要的研究网络，以促进科学和他们的职业生涯。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This award provides support for the travel and conference registration fees of students and young investigators as participants in the 2018 Gordon Research Conference Bioinspired Materials, in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, June 24 - 29, 2018. The meeting will allow young investigators to network with establish researchers to discuss cutting edge research about new ideas and future concepts of how to harness or mimic designs and the methods used in nature to achieve them. The overarching goal of this research is to develop a fundamental understanding of the synthesis, directed self-assembly and hierarchical organization of natural occurring materials, and uses this understanding to design new synthetic materials whose structure, properties and function mimic those of natural materials or living matter. This Gordon Conference will bring together researchers in biomedical engineering, materials science, synthetic biology, genetics, and clinical medicine to discuss the cutting edge of research in the area of new bioinspired artificial materials that are exquisitely developed for high functionality in specific applications. This is a cross-disciplinary conference, designed to build bridges between fields to advance science and engineering in this area. In particular, the conference will focus on fundamental understanding of how particular materials should be designed to be "symbiotic" with biological entities and how to get similarity in functioning of biomaterials with their living counterparts. The conference will include a broad range of researchers, from graduate students and post-doctoral trainees to world leaders in this area, to disseminate the latest advances and develop connections to advance this key field of research moving forward. Award funds will be used to support students and trainees so that they can present their research and develop the research network necessary to advance both science and their careers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.