2018 Bioinspired Materials: Bioinspired Multifunctional Dynamic Materials

该奖项为参加2018年6月24日至29日在瑞士Les diableets举行的2018年戈登生物启发材料研究会议的学生和年轻研究人员提供旅费和会议注册费支持。会议将允许年轻的研究人员与成熟的研究人员建立联系，讨论关于如何利用或模仿设计以及在自然界中实现这些设计的方法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、定向自组装和分层组织的基本理解，并利用这一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、遗传学和临床医学领域的研究人员，讨论新的生物启发人工材料领域的研究前沿，这些材料是为特定应用的高功能而精心开发的。这是一个跨学科的会议，旨在建立不同领域之间的桥梁，以推进该领域的科学和工程。特别是，会议将重点关注如何设计特定材料以与生物实体“共生”，以及如何获得生物材料与其生物对应物在功能上的相似性。会议将包括广泛的研究人员，从研究生和博士后学员到该领域的世界领袖，传播最新进展并建立联系，以推动这一关键研究领域向前发展。奖金将用于支持学生和学员，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。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.