REU Site: Nanoscale Materials Science and Engineering at Vanderbilt University

REU 站点：范德比尔特大学纳米材料科学与工程

• 批准号: 1852157
• 负责人: Joshua Caldwell
• 金额: $ 35.99万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852157&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Nanoscale; Materials; Science

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) summer research experiences for undergraduates (REU) site offers science and engineering undergraduate students the opportunity to work closely with faculty on forefront research projects in the field of nanoscale science and engineering. The overarching theme of the research projects are nanomaterials innovation and fabrication. The projects are designed to build a sense of community among the students and the participating faculty, as well as expose the REU students broadly to research at the leading edge of nanoscale science and engineering. REU students are also offered the opportunity for training in the integration of research with education and outreach through participation in the Vanderbilt Summer Academy for high school students. Additionally, to facilitate the continued mentoring of the REU students after the research experience and enhance the probability of the student continuing in research, 'home mentors' are invited to visit Vanderbilt to participate in the capstone events. Historical data shows that following an REU summer, students have a heightened desire for graduate studies, with 88% remaining in science and engineering and 69% entering graduate school, primarily at other institutions ensuring students obtain the richest experience. Long term, the REU site contributes to building a workforce educated in and motivated towards science and engineering disciplines and specifically, interdisciplinary research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The program places strong emphasis on recruiting students from underrepresented minority groups and schools with limited research opportunities; the REU program and the VINSE faculty have collaborators at several institutions, including nearby HBCU Fisk University that are committed to helping us identify potential REU students. Furthermore, visits from home institution mentors also enables these partnerships to be strengthened and relationships with new institutions developed. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The promise of nanoscience and nanotechnology to revolutionize our lives in multiple ways has captured the imagination of scientists, the attention of the media, and the general public. Nanoscience and nanotechnology are based on the ability to synthesize, organize, characterize, and manipulate matter systematically at the nanoscale, creating uniquely functional materials that can be inorganic, organic or biological, or a hybrid of any two or more of these. Thus, nanoscience and nanotechnology pose formidable challenges that cut across traditionally distinct disciplines; to meet these challenges, interdisciplinary training of future scientists and engineers in the broad field of nanotechnology is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal the VINSE summer REU site offers science and engineering undergraduate students the opportunity to work closely with faculty on forefront research projects in the field of nanoscale science and engineering. VINSE faculty provide REU students with a true interdisciplinary research experience in an environment where physicists, chemists, biologists, and all engineers collaboratively solve problems and create new scientific understanding.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.

非技术描述：范德比尔特纳米科学与工程研究所(VINSE)面向本科生的暑期研究体验(REU)网站为理工科本科生提供了与教师在纳米科学与工程领域的前沿研究项目上密切合作的机会。这些研究项目的主要主题是纳米材料的创新和制造。这些项目的目的是在学生和参与其中的教职员工之间建立一种共同体意识，并让REU的学生广泛接触纳米科学和工程的前沿研究。通过参加范德比尔特高中生暑期学校，REU的学生还有机会接受研究与教育和推广相结合的培训。此外，为了便于在研究经验结束后继续指导REU学生，并增加学生继续研究的可能性，我们邀请“家庭导师”访问Vanderbilt，参加Capstone活动。历史数据显示，在REU暑假之后，学生对研究生学习的愿望更加强烈，88%的学生留在科学和工程专业，69%的学生进入研究生学校，主要是在其他机构，以确保学生获得最丰富的经验。从长远来看，REU网站有助于建立一支受过科学和工程学科教育并受到激励的劳动力队伍，特别是纳米科学和纳米技术的跨学科研究。该计划非常重视从代表性不足的少数族裔群体和研究机会有限的学校招收学生；REU计划和VINSE教师在几个机构有合作伙伴，包括附近的HBCU Fisk大学，它们致力于帮助我们发现潜在的REU学生。此外，国内机构导师的访问也有助于加强这些伙伴关系，并发展与新机构的关系。技术描述：纳米科学和纳米技术将以多种方式改变我们的生活，这一前景吸引了科学家、媒体和普通公众的注意。纳米科学和纳米技术的基础是在纳米尺度上系统地合成、组织、表征和操纵物质的能力，创造出独特的功能材料，可以是无机、有机或生物，也可以是其中任何两种或两种以上的混合体。因此，纳米科学和纳米技术构成了跨越传统不同学科的艰巨挑战；为了应对这些挑战，在广阔的纳米技术领域对未来的科学家和工程师进行跨学科培训至关重要。为了实现这一目标，VINSE夏季REU网站为理工科本科生提供了与教师在纳米科学和工程领域的前沿研究项目上密切合作的机会。在物理学家、化学家、生物学家和所有工程师协作解决问题并创造新的科学理解的环境中，VINSE教师为REU学生提供真正的跨学科研究体验。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Protein sensing using deep subwavelength-engineered photonic crystals

使用深亚波长工程光子晶体进行蛋白质传感

• DOI: 10.1364/ol.510541
• 发表时间: 2024
• 期刊: Optics Letters
• 影响因子: 3.6
• 作者: Zhang, Yanrong;Whittington, Christopher S.;Layouni, Rabeb;Cotto, Andres M.;Arnold, Kellen P.;Halimi, Sami I.;Weiss, Sharon M.
• 通讯作者: Weiss, Sharon M.

Filterless Nondispersive Infrared Sensing using Narrowband Infrared Emitting Metamaterials

• DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c01432
• 发表时间: 2021-01-13
• 期刊: ACS PHOTONICS
• 影响因子: 7
• 作者: Livingood, Alyssa;Nolen, J. Ryan;Caldwell, Joshua D.
• 通讯作者: Caldwell, Joshua D.

Photooxidative Polymerization of Pyrrole from Photosystem I Proteins

• DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.2c01404
• 发表时间: 2022-10-14
• 期刊: ACS APPLIED POLYMER MATERIALS
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Passantino, Joshua M.;Williams, Alessia M.;Jennings, G. Kane
• 通讯作者: Jennings, G. Kane

High-throughput screening of tribological properties of monolayer films using molecular dynamics and machine learning

利用分子动力学和机器学习对单层薄膜的摩擦学特性进行高通量筛选

• DOI: 10.1063/5.0080838
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: The Journal of Chemical Physics
• 作者: Quach, Co D.;Gilmer, Justin B.;Pert, Daniel;Mason-Hogans, Akanke;Iacovella, Christopher R.;Cummings, Peter T.;McCabe, Clare
• 通讯作者: McCabe, Clare

Nanoporous Atomically Thin Graphene Filters for Nanoscale Aerosols

• DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c10827
• 发表时间: 2022-08-29
• 期刊: ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
• 影响因子: 9.5
• 作者: Cheng, Peifu;Espano, Jeremy;Kidambi, Piran R.
• 通讯作者: Kidambi, Piran R.