2019 GRC Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems: Exploiting the Functionality of Soft Materials

摘要：该奖项为2019年GRC/GRS“复杂活性和自适应材料系统”会议的参与者提供部分支持：“开发软材料的功能”，将于1月26日至27日（GRS）和1月27日至2月1日（GRC）在加利福尼亚州文图拉举行。GRC的目的是激发软材料社区讨论来自大自然的想法（自然界中出现的材料），以及最先进的软材料科学和技术，可用于设计广泛应用的新材料，如软机器人，传感器，智能材料和自适应表面。这些讨论旨在引导对一系列领域的变革概念的探索，这些领域包括材料科学和工程（软物质、生物材料、生物物理学、化学工程），以及理论和计算建模。该GRC的总体目标是解决外来和复杂材料实际应用的障碍，包括考虑和采用在许多生物系统中明显的自然启发的自组装过程。主题GRC技术会议将涵盖以下领域：结构流体建筑；复杂材料的自组装；细胞机器；驯服活性物质；结构化表面;响应性材料;仿生学：利用进化；和软机器。由研究生和博士后组织的GRS将在GRC之前的周末举行，届时研究生和博士后将根据所提交的精选摘要发表演讲。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。

NON-TECHNICAL AND TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: This award provides partial support for participants to the 2019 GRC/GRS conference on "Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems: Exploiting the Functionality of Soft Materials", to be held January 26-27 (GRS) and January 27-February 1st (GRC) in Ventura, CA. The aim of the GRC is to stimulate the soft-materials community to discuss ideas from nature (materials occurring in nature), and state-of the-art soft-materials science and technologies that can be used to design new materials for a broad range of applications such as soft robotics, sensors, smart materials, and adaptive surfaces. These discussions are intended to lead to the exploration of transformative concepts in a range of fields encompassing materials science and engineering (soft matter, biomaterials, biophysics, chemical engineering), as well as theoretical and computational modeling. An overall intended hallmark of this GRC is to address the barriers to practical applications of exotic and complex materials, including consideration and adoption of nature-inspired self-assembly processes apparent in many biological systems. The themed GRC technical sessions will cover the following areas: Building with structured fluids; Self-assembling complex materials; The cellular machine; Taming active matter; Structured surfaces; Responsive materials; Biomimetics: exploiting evolution; and Soft machines. The GRS organized by graduate students and postdocs will be held the weekend prior to the GRC when talks based on selected submitted abstracts will be delivered by the graduate students and postdocs.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.