Planning IUCRC at University of Michigan: Center for Hierarchical Emergent Materials (CHEM)

IUCRC分层紧急材料中心（CHEM）将研究用于油漆、颜料、印刷电子、生物医学设备、消费品、轮胎和其他材料等应用的材料工程。该中心将开发一种多学科方法来设计、模拟和建模这些材料，以控制电学、结构和化学性质。该中心将为本科生提供研究体验，重点关注代表性不足的少数民族、女性、不同能力的科学家和其他群体，将这些学生整合到三个校区和研究项目的工业合作伙伴中。提议的化学IUCRC旨在解决化学和生物产品和过程，其中化学和纳米级操作和处理导致直接影响性能的复杂分层结构的出现。该中心将推进复杂紧急结构的流变学、结构、模拟和建模的发展，如油漆、油墨、增强弹性体、复杂的个人保健产品、聚合物化合物、多相催化剂和印刷电子产品。该中心将把化学合成、流变学、形态学、模拟和建模方面的学术专长与控制光泽、雾度、生物相容性、电导率和离子电导率以及韧性等特征的紧急结构的工业控制结合起来。该中心将分为三个重点：1 .无序结构层次，包括增强弹性体、合成皮肤和色素；2。有序结构层次，包括半晶材料和自组装的合成方法；ⅲ。表面活性剂和凝聚体，包括蠕虫状胶束、凝聚体和生物识别组装。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。

The IUCRC Center for Hierarchical Emergent Materials (CHEM) will study the engineering of materials for applications such as paints, pigments, printed electronics, biomedical devices, consumer products, tires and other materials. The Center will develop a multidisciplinary approach to the design, simulation, and modeling of these materials to control electrical, structural, and chemical properties. The Center will host a research experience for undergraduates focusing on underrepresented minorities, women, differently abled scientists, and other groups by integrating these students across the three campuses and industrial partners for research projects.The proposed CHEM IUCRC is to address chemical and biological products and processes where chemical and nanoscale manipulation and processing lead to the emergence of complex hierarchical structures with direct impact on performance. The proposed Center will advance developments in rheology, structure, simulation, and modeling for complex emergent structures, such as paint, inks, reinforced elastomers, complex personal health care products, polymer compounds, heterogeneous catalysts, and printed electronics. The Center will couple academic expertise in chemical synthesis, rheology, morphology, simulation, and modeling with industrial control of emergent structures governing features like gloss, haze, biocompatibility, electrical and ionic conductivity, and toughness. The Center will be organized in three thrusts: I. Disordered Structural Hierarchies including reinforced elastomers, synthetic skin, and pigments; II. Ordered Structural Hierarchies including semi-crystalline materials and synthetic approaches to self-assembly; and III. Surfactants and Coacervates including worm-like micelles, coacervates, and biometric assembly.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.