Phase II CREST Center for Interface Design and Engineered Assembly of Low-dimensional Systems (IDEALS II)

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。科学和技术卓越研究中心（CREST）方案通过建立有效整合教育和研究的中心，支持加强为少数群体服务的机构的研究能力。CREST促进新知识的发展，提高个别教师的研究生产力，并扩大历史上在科学，技术，工程和数学学科中代表性不足的学生的存在。在国家科学基金会的支持下，纽约市立大学将继续发展其低维系统界面设计和工程组装第二阶段中心（IDEALS II）。在第一阶段理想（理想I）的突出成就的基础上，理想II研究旨在解决加强国家在量子材料，生物启发可重构材料和光子材料等前沿领域材料能力的领导地位的需要，以及解决关键国家需求的光子材料和技术，提升CCNY作为这些领域的首要研究机构。第二阶段中心的调查人员和学生将通过扩大合作来追求前沿研究和教育变革目标，创建了一个多面的尖端材料研究计划，充分整合研究和教育，以提高学生的经验和培养未来的领导者，并引入城市学院纽约总统博士后奖学金计划，以提高教师的多样性。美国国家科学基金会第二阶段CREST中心的接口设计和低维系统的工程组装（IDEALS II）在纽约城市学院（CCNY）的研究重点，包括量子材料，生物启发的可重构材料和光子现象的前沿领域，以解决能源，健康和环境的需求。多学科的合作研究活动分为三个专题子项目。子项目1名为“新兴量子材料和功能”，将专注于二维系统的材料科学和工程，例如表面和界面，其中能带拓扑和强电子相关性导致下一代量子技术的新功能和量子现象。 零维系统，如量子点和稀土离子在主机矩阵将被用作实现自旋量子位的平台，规避量子计算的当前方案的限制。子项目2，生物启发，可重新配置的材料规模，重点是可重新配置的材料（通过适应外部刺激改变其属性的材料）在第一阶段开发的可扩展性，并进一步探索其在光收集，医疗诊断和癌症治疗以及可持续性和环境恢复的具体应用。子项目3，光子材料，现象和器件的前沿将探索新兴的基本思想，合成具有前所未有的功能的新材料（如混合半导体异质结构，拓扑纳米结构），研究工程材料的显着特性，设计和测试基于有前途的材料的器件（光源，探测器和量子传感器），并为材料和器件设计标准提供反馈。种子项目方法将被用作一种机制，用于孕育新的想法和探索机会和增长领域。一个综合的研究和教育的推力，将继续适用已证明的干预措施，制定和实施的理想，我，并介绍新的，以帮助产生一个有才华的，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). The Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program supports the enhancement of research capabilities of minority-serving institutions through the establishment of centers that effectively integrate education and research. CREST promotes the development of new knowledge, enhancements of the research productivity of individual faculty, and an expanded presence of students historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. With National Science Foundation support, CUNY City College will continue development of its Phase II Center for Interface Design and Engineered Assembly of Low-dimensional Systems (IDEALS II). Building upon the salient accomplishments of Phase I IDEALS (IDEALS I), IDEALS II research intends to address the need to strengthen the nation’s leadership in materials capabilities in the frontier areas of quantum materials, bioinspired reconfigurable materials, and photonic materials and technologies that address critical national needs, elevating CCNY as a premier research institution in these fields. Phase II Center investigators and students will pursue frontier research and education transformative goals through extending collaborations, created a multifaced cutting-edge materials research program, fully integrate research and education to enhance student experience and train tomorrow’s leaders, and introduce the City College New York Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program to enhance faculty diversity. The research thrusts of the NSF Phase II CREST Center for Interface Design and Engineered Assembly of Low-dimensional Systems (IDEALS II) at the City College of New York (CCNY), encompass the frontier areas of quantum materials, bioinspired reconfigurable materials and photonic phenomena to address energy, health, and environmental needs. The multi-disciplinary, collaborative research activities are organized into three thematic Subprojects. Subproject 1, entitled, Emergent Quantum Materials and Functions, will focus on materials science and engineering of two-dimensional systems, such as, surfaces and interfaces where band topology and strong electron correlations lead to new functions and quantum phenomena for the next-generation quantum technologies. Zero-dimensional systems, such as, quantum dots and rare-earth ions in host matrices will be utilized as platforms for implementing spin qubits that circumvent the limitations of current schemes of quantum computation. Subproject 2, Bio-inspired, Re-configurable Materials to Scale, focuses on scalability of reconfigurable materials (materials that change their properties by adapting to an external stimulus) developed in Phase I and further explores their specific applications in light harvesting, medical diagnostics and cancer therapy as well as sustainability and environmental rehabilitation. Subproject 3, Frontiers of Photonic Materials, Phenomena and Devices will explore emerging basic ideas, synthesize new materials (such as, hybrid semiconductor heterostructures, topological nanostructures) with unprecedented functionalities, investigate salient properties of the engineered materials, design and test devices (light sources, detectors and quantum sensors) based on promising materials, and provide feedback for materials and device design criteria. The seed project approach will be used as a mechanism for the nucleation of new ideas and exploration of areas of opportunity and growth. An integrated research and education thrust, will continue to apply the proven interventions developed and implemented in IDEALS I, and introduce new ones, to help produce a talented, inclusive and diverse work force capable of leading the materials research and development endeavors in the 21st century.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.