2022 Gordon Research Conference on Tribology: Understanding Sliding Interfaces to Master Tribological Systems Across Length Scales; Lewiston, Maine; 25 June to 1 July 2022

这笔赠款为学生和职业早期研究人员提供资金，用于参加2022年戈登摩擦学研究会议：了解跨长度尺度的主控摩擦学系统的滑动界面；贝茨学院，缅因州刘易斯顿；2022年6月25日至7月1日。摩擦学是研究滑动接触处的摩擦和磨损的科学。摩擦学的研究和工程努力解决摩擦和磨损背后的物理和化学机制，并旨在设计材料、工艺和设备，使之成为应对技术挑战的新解决方案。摩擦学的进步有助于通过降低摩擦来减少能源消耗，通过减少磨损来延长机械系统的使用寿命并提高其安全性，通过减少能源消耗来减少从车辆到制造的应用中的有害排放。摩擦学也影响着在地球上活动的人和动物的生活。戈登摩擦学研究会议(GRC)是一个在跨学科的科学家和工程师小组之间交流尖端研究成果的论坛，这些科学家和工程师站在解决该领域基本和应用挑战的前沿。这个奖项将促进来自GRC不同背景的学生和早期职业研究人员的参与。这个副标题“了解跨长度尺度的主摩擦学系统的滑动界面”反映了这样一个事实，即对摩擦学现象的全面理解需要涵盖科学和工程中的一系列经典领域的多学科知识，包括多个长度尺度上的化学、物理、机械工程和材料科学。大多数摩擦学家都在这些领域中的一个领域接受培训，重点是微观(原子、分子、纳米)或宏观(系统级)现象或方法，然后在从学校过渡到现实世界的过程中接触其他领域或摩擦学的规模。认识到摩擦学中的多学科和多尺度挑战，相信下一个重大突破可能会在经典培训之间的界面上找到。为了实现这些突破，非常不同的摩擦学社区需要走到一起，共同学习和发现。2022年GRC将提供一个讨论和学习的场所。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This grant provides funds for students and early-career researchers to attend the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Tribology: Understanding Sliding Interfaces to Master Tribological Systems Across Length Scales; Bates College, Lewiston, Maine; 25 June to 1 July 2022. Tribology is the science of friction and wear at the sliding contacts. Research and engineering efforts in tribology address the physical and chemical mechanisms underlying friction and wear, and aim to design materials, processes, and devices such that new solutions to technological challenges become available. Advances in tribology help to reduce energy consumption by lowering friction, to prolong the lifetime and enhance the safety of mechanical systems by reducing wear, and to decrease harmful emissions in applications from vehicles to manufacturing through reduction of energy use. Tribology also impacts the life of humans and animals that move on earth. The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Tribology is a forum to exchange results of cutting-edge research amongst an interdisciplinary group of scientists and engineers who are at the forefront of addressing fundamental and applied challenges in this field. This award will promote participations of students and early-career researchers from diverse backgrounds at the GRC. This subtitle “Understanding Sliding Interfaces to Master Tribological Systems Across Length Scales” reflects the fact a comprehensive understanding of tribological phenomena requires multidisciplinary knowledge encompassing a range of classical fields in science and engineering, including chemistry, physics, mechanical engineering, and materials science over multiple length scales. Most tribologists are trained in one of these areas with emphasis on either microscale (atomic, molecular, nano) or macroscale (system-level) phenomena or methodologies and then exposed to other fields or scales of tribology as they make transitions from schools to real-world situations. Realizing the multidisciplinary and multiscale challenges in tribology is believed that the next significant breakthroughs are likely to be found at the interfaces between the classical trainings. To achieve these breakthroughs, the very diverse tribology community needs to come together to learn and discover together. The 2022 GRC will provide a venue for this discussion and learning.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.