Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

材料研究科学与工程中心

• 批准号: 2011854
• 负责人: Stuart Rowan
• 金额: $ 1998万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2011854&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Materials; Research; Science; Engineering; Center

Nontechnical Description: The UChicago Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) is a strategic trans-disciplinary research hub that tackles some of the deepest intellectual challenges of materials research central to priority industries through highly collaborative efforts united to a strong commitment to education and outreach. The first research thrust, beautifully aligned with the NSF Big Idea - Understanding the Rules of Life, is discovering new materials whose properties are essential to emerging technologies; exciting outcomes in materials biology will advance the mastery of synthetic biological systems by identifying training mechanisms at play in the biological realm including advances in artificial muscles. This research will lay the scientific foundation for innovative approaches in materials processing. A second research thrust is exploring materials containing distributed molecular engines enabling new classes of materials that can spontaneously deform and flow: the future vision of this research is to design and build shape-morphing hybrid materials with transport properties that are programmable and spatiotemporally self-regulating. The resulting materials platform will have tremendous impact in sensing, actuation, separations, and biodesign, thus adding innovation to synthetic materials biology. A third effort, aligned with the NSF Big Idea - Quantum Leap, focuses on new materials needed for the creation of integrated quantum circuits: powerful new methodologies developed here will enable the manipulation and transfer of quantum information. This research vision allows this MRSEC to forge a robust community where students, postdocs and faculty bring diverse expertise and research interests in the service of compelling scientific goals designed to increase our national competitiveness in these areas. The UChicago MRSEC manages state-of-the art materials preparation and measurement facilities that are accessible to all academic and industrial researchers. Outreach and education activities are designed to communicate research results broadly, to foster professional development of students and to strengthen interest in science in the general public. As a result, the UChicago MRSEC provides a vibrant resource to the university, to the broader materials science community, and, via societal impacts, to the local inner-city neighborhood and to the general public. Technical Description: The UChicago MRSEC establishes new conceptual frameworks to guide materials discovery and explores synergistic connections. The research activities are organized into two Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs) and one SuperSeed. The IRG on Trainable Soft Materials establishes a framework for building classes of materials whose physical response is engineered by using external manipulation to train in novel functionality. It takes inspiration from the fundamental processes that govern the structure and enormous adaptability of biological networks in order to derive new principles for pluripotent material fabrication by varying the training protocol. The IRG on Activated Architectured Materials constructs materials with spatiotemporally programmable and self-regulating transport properties by bringing together recent advances in active materials with inorganic colloidal and thin film synthesis. This work enables dynamic control of transport properties of inorganic materials with potential applications in sensing, actuation and biodesign. A Super-Seed on Materials for Electrical-Optical Quantum Transduction focuses on the challenge of creating integrated quantum circuits with coherent interfaces between different quantum materials spanning across many energy scales.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：芝加哥大学材料研究科学与工程中心（MRSEC）是一个战略性的跨学科研究中心，通过高度协作的努力，团结起来，坚定地致力于教育和推广，解决了材料研究对优先行业至关重要的一些最深刻的智力挑战。第一个研究重点与NSF的大理念-理解生命规则完美结合，正在发现其特性对新兴技术至关重要的新材料;材料生物学的令人兴奋的成果将通过识别在生物领域发挥作用的训练机制，包括人工肌肉的进步，来促进对合成生物系统的掌握。这项研究将为材料加工的创新方法奠定科学基础。第二个研究重点是探索包含分布式分子引擎的材料，使新的材料类别能够自发变形和流动：这项研究的未来愿景是设计和构建具有可编程和时空自我调节的传输特性的形状变形混合材料。由此产生的材料平台将在传感、驱动、分离和生物设计方面产生巨大影响，从而为合成材料生物学增添创新。第三项工作与NSF的Big Idea - Quantum Leap保持一致，重点关注创建集成量子电路所需的新材料：这里开发的强大的新方法将使量子信息的操纵和传输成为可能。这一研究愿景使该MRSEC能够建立一个强大的社区，学生，博士后和教师带来了多样化的专业知识和研究兴趣，以实现引人注目的科学目标，旨在提高我们在这些领域的国家竞争力。UChicago MRSEC管理着最先进的材料制备和测量设施，所有学术和工业研究人员都可以使用。推广和教育活动旨在广泛传播研究成果，促进学生的专业发展，并提高公众对科学的兴趣。因此，UChicago MRSEC为大学，更广泛的材料科学界提供了一个充满活力的资源，并通过社会影响，为当地的市中心社区和公众提供了一个充满活力的资源。技术描述：UChicago MRSEC建立了新的概念框架来指导材料发现并探索协同连接。研究活动分为两个跨学科研究小组（IRG）和一个超级种子。可训练软材料IRG建立了一个框架，用于构建材料类别，这些材料的物理响应是通过使用外部操纵来训练新功能而设计的。 它从控制生物网络结构和巨大适应性的基本过程中获得灵感，以便通过改变训练协议来获得多能材料制造的新原理。 IRG的活化结构材料通过将活性材料的最新进展与无机胶体和薄膜合成结合起来，构建具有时空可编程和自我调节传输特性的材料。 这项工作使无机材料的传输特性的动态控制在传感，驱动和生物设计的潜在应用。电光量子转换材料的超级种子项目专注于在跨越许多能量尺度的不同量子材料之间创建具有相干接口的集成量子电路的挑战。该奖项反映了NSF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。

项目成果

Submonolayer and Monolayer Sn Adsorption and Diffusion Behavior on Oxidized Nb(100)

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c08458
• 发表时间: 2023-01
• 期刊: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
• 作者: Sarah A. Willson;R. G. Farber;A. Hire;R. Hennig;S. Sibener

High-efficiency stretchable light-emitting polymers from thermally activated delayed fluorescence

• DOI: 10.1038/s41563-023-01529-w
• 发表时间: 2023-04
• 期刊: Nature Materials
• 影响因子: 41.2
• 作者: Wei Liu;Cheng Zhang;Riccardo Alessandri;B. Diroll;Yang Li;Heyi Liang;Xiaochun Fan;Kai Wang;Himchan Cho;Youdi Liu;Yahao Dai;Qichao Su;Nan Li;Songsong Li;S. Wai;Qiang Li;Shiyang Shao;Lixiang Wang;Jie Xu;Xiaohong Zhang;D. Talapin;J. D. de Pablo;Sihong Wang

Generation and Aerobic Oxidative Catalysis of a Cu(II) Superoxo Complex Supported by a Redox-Active Ligand

• DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c04630
• 发表时间: 2022-08-17
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
• 影响因子: 15
• 作者: Czaikowski, Maia E.;McNeece, Andrew J.;Anderson, John S.
• 通讯作者: Anderson, John S.

Leveraging Dynamical Symmetries in Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectra to Extract Population Transfer Pathways

利用二维电子光谱中的动态对称性来提取种群转移路径

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c01993
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
• 作者: Higgins, Jacob S.;Dardia, Anna R.;Ndife, Chidera J.;Lloyd, Lawson T.;Bain, Elizabeth M.;Engel, Gregory S.
• 通讯作者: Engel, Gregory S.

Simulating structured fluids with tensorial viscoelasticity

• DOI: 10.1063/5.0123470
• 发表时间: 2023-02-07
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
• 影响因子: 4.4
• 作者: Floyd，Carlos;Vaikuntanathan，Suriyanarayanan;Dinner，Aaron R.
• 通讯作者: Dinner，Aaron R.