Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Accelerated Catalytic Design and Characterization (ACDC)

规划资助：加速催化设计与表征工程研究中心（ACDC）

• 批准号: 1840619
• 负责人: Sossina Haile
• 金额: $ 9.8万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2021-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840619&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research. This planning grant will develop well-formulated plans for a future Engineering Research Center at the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University that brings together a transdisciplinary team of researchers, educators, and stakeholders focused on the invention and development of new methodologies to dramatically accelerate materials discovery and design. Utilizing combinatorial nanoscience implemented in mega-libraries (libraries with billions of systematically varied particle compositions and sizes) for the rapid discovery and development of materials, critical for hydrogen production and utilization to create a cleaner, cheaper energy; nitrogen fixation to enhance food production; and water purification to yield access to clean water at lower cost and greater scale. The methodologies developed are likely to have applicability far beyond the catalytic solutions to societal needs recognized here.The planning activities will help develop a highly integrated convergent team within a framework of diversity and inclusion. The research mission will be sharpened into a crisp, singular vision for a successful ERC that has the potential to address significant societal needs. World leaders in the three key topical areas, water, food and energy, have been identified and the exchange of ideas that will occur in open symposia at which these individuals will participate will generate new ideas for exploiting the combinatorial approach. The knowledge gained through the advancement of this planning grant will be a benefit for all the participants, particularly the graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who will be highly involved in the full proposal preparation. Beyond the fields of nanoscience and catalysis, new knowledge about how best to facilitate and enhance convergent research will be discovered.This ERC Planning Grant will enable meaningful partnerships between academia, industry, and affiliated stakeholders to be developed and increase the potential for productive collaborations. The proposed planning activities will also enhance the infrastructure for future convergent research efforts and lay a foundation for innovative educational programs.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.

工程研究中心竞赛的计划赠款是在ERC计划中作为试点招标进行的。 在整个ERC竞争中，不需要计划赠款，但旨在在团队之间建立能力，以计划收敛的中心规模的工程研究。这项计划赠款将为西北大学国际纳米技术研究所的未来工程研究中心制定良好的计划，该计划汇集了一个跨学科研究人员，教育工作者和利益相关者的跨学科团队，专注于发明和开发新方法，以极大地加速材料发现和设计。利用在巨型图上实施的组合纳米科学（具有数十亿个系统多样化的粒子组成和尺寸的库）来快速发现和开发材料，这对于氢生产和利用至关重要，以创造更清洁，更便宜的能量；氮固定以增强粮食生产；和水净化，以较低的成本和更大的规模获得清洁水的机会。所开发的方法可能使适用性远远超出了这里认识到的社会需求的催化解决方案。计划活动将有助于在多样性和包容的框架内建立高度综合的收敛团队。对于成功的ERC来说，研究任务将成为一个清晰，奇异的愿景，有可能满足重大的社会需求。 已经确定了三个关键主题领域的世界领导人，并且已经确定了在开放式座谈会中会发生的想法的交流，这些人将参与其中，将产生新的想法来利用组合方法。通过这笔计划赠款的发展获得的知识将对所有参与者，尤其是研究生和博士后学者的好处，这些学者将高度参与完整的建议准备。除纳米科学和催化领域外，还将发现有关如何最好地促进和增强收敛研究的新知识。此ERC计划赠款将使学术界，行业和附属利益相关者之间有意义的合作伙伴关系，并提高潜在的生产性合作。拟议的计划活动还将增强未来融合研究工作的基础设施，并为创新的教育计划奠定了基础。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估标准来通过评估来支持的。