REU Site: Research Experience in Utah for Sustainable Materials Engineering (ReUSE)

REU 网站：犹他州可持续材料工程（再利用）的研究经验

• 批准号: 1950589
• 负责人: Taylor Sparks
• 金额: $ 37.29万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-01 至 2024-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1950589&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Research; Experience; Utah

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: This new Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site has the goal of training metallurgy and materials science and engineering undergraduates in sustainable engineering. This is accomplished through education in sustainability fundamentals followed by deeply embedded learning experiences alongside faculty mentors in Materials Science & Engineering. Students are exposed to sustainability research in the areas of energy, resources, and water taking advantage of the unique geography in Utah. The participants are selected to maximize diversity with an emphasis on Latino, Pacific Islander, and refugee students since these match the high minority populations present in Salt Lake County. A high fraction of participants are contributing to scholarly products such as manuscripts or conference abstracts and presentations. Independent evaluation is being used to monitor continuously and improve effectiveness of this Site. Best practices, lessons learned, and positive outcomes are shared with the broader engineering education community through publications and presentations at the American Society for Engineering Education. TECHNICAL DETAILS: Each participant spends the summer embedded in a research group working with one of 10 participating faculty mentors. Projects involve the development of alternative materials, techniques, and processing routes to achieve more sustainable engineering outcomes in three key subareas: water, energy, and resources. The energy emphasis is placed on replacing critical, toxic, or expensive elements with more sustainable alternatives in order to enable renewable or low-carbon energy technologies. For water, the emphasis is on providing access to clean water through desalination, water purification, and modeling of potential toxins in water and soil. In terms of resources, the emphasis is made on recycling and reducing landfill mass by developing biodegradable packaging and capturing rare metals via recycling of e-waste. In addition to research activities, the participants are also involved in weekly scientific and career-development seminars. All participants present their scientific findings at a symposium at the end of each summer.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：这个新的本科生研究体验(REU)网站的目标是培养冶金、材料科学和工程专业的可持续工程本科生。这是通过可持续发展基础知识的教育，然后与材料科学和工程的教师导师一起深入学习经验来实现的。利用犹他州独特的地理优势，学生们可以接触到能源、资源和水领域的可持续性研究。参与者的选择是为了最大限度地增加多样性，重点是拉丁裔、太平洋岛民和难民学生，因为他们与盐湖县目前的高少数民族人口相匹配。很大一部分与会者正在为学术产品做出贡献，如手稿或会议摘要和演示文稿。正在使用独立评估来持续监测和改进该网站的有效性。通过美国工程教育学会的出版物和演讲，与更广泛的工程教育界分享最佳实践、经验教训和积极成果。技术细节：每个参与者都在一个研究小组中度过暑假，与10名参与其中的教师导师一起工作。项目包括开发替代材料、技术和加工路线，以在水、能源和资源三个关键分领域实现更可持续的工程成果。能源的重点是用更可持续的替代品取代关键、有毒或昂贵的元素，以实现可再生或低碳能源技术。对于水，重点是通过海水淡化、水净化和水和土壤中潜在毒素的建模来提供获得清洁水的途径。在资源方面，重点是通过开发可生物降解的包装和通过回收电子废物来捕获稀有金属来回收和减少垃圾填埋量。除了研究活动，参与者还参加每周的科学和职业发展研讨会。所有参与者在每年夏末的研讨会上展示他们的科学发现。这一奖项反映了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

Polyester networks from structurally similar monomers: recyclable-by-design and upcyclable to photopolymers

• DOI: 10.1039/d3py00338h
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Polymer Chemistry
• 影响因子: 4.6
• 作者: Grant M. Musgrave;Katie M. Bishop;John S. Kim;Amelia C. Heiner;Chen Wang

Electrochemical and Degradation Studies on One-Dimensional Tunneled Sodium Zirconogallate (NZGO) + Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia (YSZ) Composite, Mixed Sodium and Oxygen Ion Conductor

一维隧道锆镓酸钠 (NZGO) 氧化钇稳定氧化锆 (YSZ) 复合、混合钠和氧离子导体的电化学和降解研究

• DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/ac9ee2
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of The Electrochemical Society
• 影响因子: 3.9
• 作者: Elahi, Pooya;Horsley, Jude;Sparks, Taylor D.
• 通讯作者: Sparks, Taylor D.

Discovering chemically novel, high-temperature superconductors

发现化学新颖的高温超导体

• DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2023.112358
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Computational Materials Science
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Seegmiller, Colton C.;Baird, Sterling G.;Sayeed, Hasan M.;Sparks, Taylor D.
• 通讯作者: Sparks, Taylor D.

Effect of Temperature on the Solubility of Metallic Magnesium in Molten MgCl2-KCl-NaCl

温度对金属镁在熔融MgCl2-KCl-NaCl中溶解度的影响

• DOI: 10.1007/s11837-022-05537-0
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: JOM
• 影响因子: 2.6
• 作者: Fuelling, Kalyn M.;Dale, Olivia R.;Choi, Suhee;Simpson, Michael F.
• 通讯作者: Simpson, Michael F.

Reversible Electrochemical Lithium Cycling in a Vanadium(IV)- and Niobium(V)-Based Wadsley–Roth Phase

钒 (IV) 和铌 (V) 基 Wadsley-Roth 相中的可逆电化学锂循环

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c03465
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Chemistry of Materials
• 影响因子: 8.6
• 作者: Lawrence, Erick A.;Davenport, Matthew A.;Devi, Reshma;Cai, Zijian;Avdeev, Maxim;Belnap, Jonathan R.;Liu, Jue;Alnaser, Husain;Ho, Alice;Sparks, Taylor D.
• 通讯作者: Sparks, Taylor D.