REU Site: Creative Approaches to Materials Design and Processing

REU 网站：材料设计和加工的创意方法

• 批准号: 2149721
• 负责人: Reginald Rogers
• 金额: $ 36.95万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2149721&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Creative; Approaches; Materials

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Non-Technical SummaryThis REU Site at the University of Missouri-Columbia that focuses on materials design and processing is unique in that it includes proven, theatre-based creativity training interwoven into the framework of the more traditional research and professional development activities. This program is deliberately designed to address the urgent need for innovation in materials research in the United States. Creativity training is a necessary and fundamental component to building innovative capabilities in scientists and engineers but is rarely part of traditional curricula. This REU Site fills a critical gap in workforce development in materials design and manufacturing and addresses a national need for researchers who can solve complex, interconnected problems. The site purposefully promotes inclusivity through national recruitment of students, with an emphasis on non-Ph.D.-granting institutions, institutions that support under-represented minority students, and institutions that support deaf/hard-of-hearing students. Students work in teams and are co-mentored by affiliated faculty in the research area of their choice. The program leverages existing campus resources that include professional development training, and both social and academic support. Combining this wrap-around programming with interdisciplinary research in materials design/processing and creativity training, this REU Site enables undergraduate students to explore new avenues to materials innovation in the 21st century.Technical SummaryInnovation in materials design and processing requires a fundamental understanding of the interrelationships among structure, composition, processing, and properties. This is particularly critical for advanced functional materials, which are often micro- or nano-structured, and built through either self-assembly or complex fabrication processes, due to their unique and complex structure-function relationships, and their potential use in applications critical to human health and security. This REU Site at the University of Missouri-Columbia focuses on understanding and predicting these relationships for micro- and nano-structured materials across a wide spectrum of applications, including sensors, batteries, reactors, and implantable devices. The approaches include atomistic simulation, coarse-grain modeling, and materials design/fabrication/characterization techniques. This research intends to not only advance the science in each unique area, but provide students with unique, measurable skills in computational modeling, materials science design, processing, characterization, and creative thinking.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.

该奖项全部或部分由2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。非技术摘要密苏里-哥伦比亚大学的REU网站专注于材料设计和加工，其独特之处在于它包括经过验证的，基于剧院的创造力培训，交织在更传统的研究和专业发展活动的框架内。 该计划旨在解决美国材料研究创新的迫切需求。 创造力培训是培养科学家和工程师创新能力的必要和基本组成部分，但很少成为传统课程的一部分。 这个REU网站填补了材料设计和制造的劳动力发展的关键空白，并解决了国家对能够解决复杂，相互关联的问题的研究人员的需求。该网站通过在全国范围内招收学生，特别是非博士生，有目的地促进包容性。资助机构、支持代表性不足的少数民族学生的机构和支持聋人/听力障碍学生的机构。学生在团队中工作，并在他们选择的研究领域由附属教师共同指导。该计划利用现有的校园资源，包括专业发展培训，以及社会和学术支持。结合材料设计/加工和创造力培训的跨学科研究，这个REU网站使本科生能够探索新的途径，材料创新在21世纪世纪.技术摘要材料设计和加工的创新需要结构，成分，加工和性能之间的相互关系的基本理解。这对于先进的功能材料尤其重要，这些材料通常是微米或纳米结构的，并且通过自组装或复杂的制造工艺构建，因为它们具有独特和复杂的结构-功能关系，并且它们在对人类健康和安全至关重要的应用中具有潜在的用途。 密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校的REU网站专注于理解和预测微纳米结构材料在广泛应用中的这些关系，包括传感器，电池，反应器和植入式设备。 这些方法包括原子模拟、粗粒建模和材料设计/制造/表征技术。该研究不仅旨在推进每个独特领域的科学，而且为学生提供计算建模，材料科学设计，加工，表征和创造性思维方面的独特，可衡量的技能。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进行评估，被认为值得支持。