“Sustainable Polymers: Physics of New Materials, Design for Sustainability, and End-of-Life”: A DPOLY Short Course at the 2022 American Physical Society Annual Meeting

技术和非技术总结：该会议奖将为参加2022年美国物理学会三月会议的短期课程“可持续聚合物：新材料物理学，可持续性设计和寿命结束”的学生，博士后研究人员和高中教师提供部分旅费支持。这个短期课程将通过专家的指导和参与者之间的参与讨论，提供在聚合物可持续性领域推进知识的机会。这门短期课程将为这一领域带来一个专注的视角，重点是聚合物的物理特性和基本物理特性，以及如何在考虑可持续性目标和指标的情况下设计它们。为了实现这一目标，来自跨学科领域的研究人员将聚集在一起，包括聚合物物理学、聚合物化学和材料科学，并解决聚合物的整个生命周期，从可持续的起源到易于报废处理和再利用的设计。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

TECHNICAL AND NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY:This conference award will provide partial support for travel expenses of students, postdoctoral researchers, and high school teachers to participate in the Short Course "Sustainable Polymers: Physics of New Materials, Design for Sustainability, and End-of-Life" at the 2022 American Physical Society March Meeting. This short course will offer the opportunity to advance knowledge in the field of polymer sustainability through instruction from experts and engaging discussions among participants. This short course will bring a focused perspective to this area, with emphasis on physical properties and fundamental physics of polymers and how they may be designed with consideration of sustainability goals and metrics. Towards this goal, researchers will come together from cross-disciplinary areas, including polymer physics, polymer chemistry, and materials science, and address the full life cycle of polymers, from sustainable origins to design for ease of end-of-life handling and re-use.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.