Wisconsin - Puerto Rico Partnership for Research and Education in Materials [Wi(PR)2EM]

威斯康星州 - 波多黎各材料研究和教育伙伴关系 [Wi(PR)2EM]

• 批准号: 1827894
• 负责人: Ubaldo Cordova
• 金额: $ 387万
• 依托单位: University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1827894&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Wisconsin; Puerto; Rico; Partnership; Research

Non-technical Summary:The mission of the Wisconsin - Puerto Rico Partnership for Research and Education in Materials [Wi(PR)2EM] is to make transformative advances on a range of materials-enabled technologies, and to do so while broadening participation of Hispanic Americans in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Wi(PR)2EM will achieve these goals by developing synergies between research and educational outreach at University of Wisconsin - Madison (UW) and three campuses of University of Puerto Rico (UPR) (Mayaguez (M), Medical Sciences Campus (MSC) and Rio Piedras (RP)), with a particular focus on leveraging resources of UW's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) to achieve sustainable collaborations. Wi(PR)2EM will also leverage its multidisciplinary and multicultural research teams to develop a series of research-inspired programs that collectively define a pathway that recruits, retains and advances people from all stages of the pipeline (K-12 through faculty) into STEM fields throughout Puerto Rico and Wisconsin, with a focus on Hispanic Americans and women. This pathway emphasizes mentoring across the entire scope of the partnership at UPR and UW, which will be promoted through a carefully coordinated series of trainings and experiences. The proposed education and outreach activities leverage and build upon STEM outreach programs developed by the UW MRSEC Interdisciplinary Education Group and the internationally acclaimed UPRM Science on Wheels Educational Center. The PREM will expand the breadth of opportunities for K-12, undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty at both institutions, as well as the public in surrounding communities, with the long-term goal of creating a diverse and creative STEM workforce.Technical Summary:Wi(PR)2EM combines the shared vision and expertise of UW and three campuses of UPR to form multidisciplinary and multicultural teams that will make transformative advances in research involving a diverse range of materials. The three interdisciplinary research teams (IRTs) of Wi(PR)2EM bring together deep and complementary expertise in the synthesis, characterization, modeling and application of multifunctional materials. The teams will pioneer fundamental advances in atom-scale materials design and understanding, including atomically controlled bimetallic nanostructures and nano- or mesoporous materials for catalysis and separations (IRT1); amorphous and crystalline pharmaceutical materials templated from designer polymers (IRT2), and active and reconfigurable liquid crystalline soft materials (IRT3). The teams also integrate collaborators from national laboratories and industry. The long-term technological impact of the research to be pursued in Wi(PR)2EM is enormous, including nanostructured materials for chemical transformation of sustainable biological feedstock into commodity chemicals, new formulations of small and large molecule pharmaceutically active materials, novel chemical and biological sensors and assays, and hierarchically structured materials for separations.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.

非技术性总结：威斯康星州-波多黎各材料研究和教育伙伴关系[Wi（PR）2 EM]的使命是在一系列材料技术上取得变革性进展，同时扩大西班牙裔美国人在科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域的参与。Wi（PR）2 EM将通过在威斯康星州-麦迪逊大学（UW）和波多黎各大学（UPR）的三个校区（Mayaguez（M），Medical Sciences Campus（MSC）and Rio Piedras（RP））之间发展研究和教育推广之间的协同作用来实现这些目标，特别注重利用UW材料研究科学与工程中心（MRSEC）的资源来实现可持续的合作。 Wi（PR）2 EM还将利用其多学科和多元文化的研究团队开发一系列研究启发的计划，共同定义一条途径，从管道的各个阶段（K-12通过教师）招募，保留和推进人员进入整个波多黎各和威斯康星州的STEM领域，重点是西班牙裔美国人和妇女。 这一途径强调在普遍定期审议和华盛顿大学的整个伙伴关系范围内提供指导，并将通过一系列精心协调的培训和经验加以促进。拟议的教育和外展活动利用并建立在UW MRSEC跨学科教育集团和国际知名的UPRM车轮科学教育中心开发的STEM外展计划的基础上。PREM将为K-12，本科生，研究生，博士后和两所院校的教师以及周边社区的公众扩大机会的广度，长期目标是创造多样化和创造性的STEM劳动力。技术摘要：Wi（PR）2 EM结合了UW和UPR三个校区的共同愿景和专业知识，形成多学科和多元文化团队，将在涉及各种材料的研究中取得变革性进展。Wi（PR）2 EM的三个跨学科研究团队（IRT）汇集了多功能材料合成，表征，建模和应用方面的深厚互补专业知识。这些团队将开创原子级材料设计和理解的根本性进展，包括用于催化和分离的原子控制纳米结构和纳米或介孔材料（IRT 1）;以设计师聚合物为模板的无定形和结晶药物材料（IRT 2），以及活性和可重构液晶软材料（IRT 3）。 这些团队还整合了来自国家实验室和行业的合作者。Wi（PR）2 EM研究的长期技术影响是巨大的，包括将可持续生物原料化学转化为商品化学品的纳米结构材料，小分子和大分子药物活性材料的新配方，新型化学和生物传感器和测定，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值进行评估，被认为值得支持和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

DFT Study on the Effect of Aluminum Position in Zn-Exchanged MFI on Methane Activation

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b02487
• 发表时间: 2019-06
• 期刊: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
• 作者: Sandra C Albarracín-Suazo;Y. Pagán-Torres;María C. Curet-Arana

Crystal Energy Landscape of Nifedipine by Experiment and Computer Prediction

通过实验和计算机预测硝苯地平的晶体能量景观

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.1c01317
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Crystal Growth & Design
• 影响因子: 3.8
• 作者: Gui, Yue;Jin, Yingdi;Ruan, Shigang;Sun, Guangxu;López-Mejías, Vilmalí;Yu, Lian
• 通讯作者: Yu, Lian

In the Context of Polymorphism: Accurate Measurement, and Validation of Solubility Data

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.9b00529
• 发表时间: 2019-07-01
• 期刊: CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN
• 影响因子: 3.8
• 作者: Marrero, Victor R. Vazquez;Berrios, Carmen Pinero;Lopez-Mejias, Vilmali
• 通讯作者: Lopez-Mejias, Vilmali

Effect of Polymers on Crystallization in Glass-Forming Molecular Liquids: Equal Suppression of Nucleation and Growth and Master Curve for Prediction

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.9b01095
• 发表时间: 2020-01-01
• 期刊: CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN
• 影响因子: 3.8
• 作者: Yao, Xin;Huang, Chengbin;Yu, Lian
• 通讯作者: Yu, Lian