IRES Track I: International Partnership for Responsive Infrastructure using Sustainable Multifunctional Materials (iPRISM)

IRES 第一轨：使用可持续多功能材料的响应式基础设施国际合作伙伴关系 (iPRISM)

• 批准号: 2153635
• 负责人: Zoubeida Ounaies
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 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: 2022-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2153635&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; Track; International; Partnership; Responsive

Globally there is a critical need to reduce the energy use and environmental impact of buildings. Currently, the operation of buildings accounts for 40% of the energy consumption in the United States with buildings producing ~39% of process-related CO2 emissions globally. At the same time and in recent decades, materials research has advanced significantly through groundbreaking work on bioinspired materials that are smart, adaptive and responsive. The iPRISM program will leverage these advances by implementing new material technologies that enable buildings to sense, adapt and respond to functional and environmental conditions. In the process, these new technologies will improve the construction, performance, and maintenance of buildings, resulting in lower CO2 emissions and lower energy consumption. In addition, iPRISM will build on the strong partnership between the Penn State Center for Living Multifunctional Materials Systems and North Carolina A&T in the United States and the University of Freiburg livMatS Center of Excellence in Germany to increase participation of U.S. students from traditionally underrepresented groups in material science and research abroad. The iPRISM students will be guided in their research by world-renowned experts and will have access to unique facilities, including full-scale built structures that incorporate novel and nature-inspired composites. The iPRISM focuses on the development of novel synthetic ‘living’ materials critical to improving the construction, performance, and maintenance of buildings to increase their adaptiveness. Student research projects focus on key knowledge gaps in the design, manufacturing and characterization of living materials closely integrated with needs in sustainable, resilient and adaptive building design. In the construction stage, building materials will respond to light-triggers to adapt to the additive manufacturing process, and nature-inspired load-adapted composites will enable sustainable and green building materials. During the performance stage, responsive materials will facilitate smart building skins interacting autonomously with their physical environment and new self-powered materials will lower the energy needs of buildings. Finally, in the maintenance stage, multifunctional materials will advance sensor networks to monitor building operations. Our technical approach rests on strategies inherent to the development of engineered synthetic living materials and well-suited to emergent approaches and needs in realizing adaptive architecture, considering autonomous adaptation, robustness, resilience, energy harvesting, and sustainability.This U.S.-German partnership builds on multidisciplinary research at the intersection of biology, material science and engineering, strengthens international research collaborations, and contributes to enhancing the competitiveness of the U.S. workforce in the global economy. The iPRISM research will achieve innovations in smart buildings with promise to improve the manufacture and maintenance of other large infrastructures. Our educational impacts include student mentoring, with a key goal of broadening student participation in materials science and STEM fields by leveraging programs at Penn State and a long-lasting partnership at NC A&T. These goals will strengthen the pipeline for the advancement and scientific leadership of students from underrepresented groups. Students will participate in scientific, social and cultural activities that will develop their professional skills and network, an impact that extending beyond the proposed program.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.

在全球范围内，迫切需要减少建筑物的能源使用和环境影响。目前，建筑物的运行占美国能源消耗的40%，建筑物产生的二氧化碳排放量占全球过程相关二氧化碳排放量的39%。与此同时，近几十年来，材料研究通过对智能，自适应和响应的生物启发材料的开创性工作取得了显着进展。iPRISM计划将通过实施新材料技术来利用这些进步，使建筑物能够感知，适应和响应功能和环境条件。在此过程中，这些新技术将改善建筑物的建造、性能和维护，从而降低二氧化碳排放和能源消耗。此外，iPRISM将建立在宾夕法尼亚州立大学生活多功能材料系统中心和美国北卡罗来纳州A T以及德国弗赖堡大学livMatS卓越中心之间的强大合作伙伴关系的基础上，以增加来自传统上代表性不足的群体的美国学生在国外材料科学和研究中的参与。iPRISM学生将在世界知名专家的指导下进行研究，并将获得独特的设施，包括采用新颖和自然启发的复合材料的全尺寸建筑结构。iPRISM专注于开发新型合成“生命”材料，这些材料对改善建筑物的建造，性能和维护至关重要，以提高其适应性。学生研究项目侧重于与可持续，弹性和适应性建筑设计需求紧密结合的生活材料的设计，制造和表征方面的关键知识差距。在施工阶段，建筑材料将对光触发做出反应，以适应增材制造过程，而受自然启发的负载适应复合材料将实现可持续和绿色建筑材料。在性能阶段，响应性材料将促进智能建筑表皮与其物理环境的自主互动，新的自供电材料将降低建筑物的能源需求。最后，在维护阶段，多功能材料将促进传感器网络监测建筑物的运作。我们的技术方法依赖于工程合成生物材料开发所固有的策略，并且非常适合实现自适应建筑的紧急方法和需求，考虑自主适应，鲁棒性，弹性，能量收集和可持续性。德国的伙伴关系建立在生物学，材料科学和工程交叉的多学科研究基础上，加强国际研究合作，并有助于提高美国劳动力在全球经济中的竞争力。iPRISM研究将实现智能建筑的创新，并有望改善其他大型基础设施的制造和维护。 我们的教育影响包括学生辅导，其主要目标是通过利用宾夕法尼亚州立大学的课程和NC A T的长期合作伙伴关系，扩大学生对材料科学和STEM领域的参与。这些目标将加强来自代表性不足群体的学生的进步和科学领导能力。学生将参加科学、社会和文化活动，发展他们的专业技能和网络，其影响超出拟议的计划。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。