Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials

非技术描述：材料动力学和控制中心：NSF MRSEC汇集了来自科学和工程领域的研究人员，以创造具有新的原子尺度结构和功能的材料，并开发实时主动控制和重新配置材料的方法。这些材料将促进可持续能源、量子信息处理、生物启发系统和电信、计算和传感半导体等领域的新技术和改进技术的发展。中心下设两个跨学科研究小组（irg）。IRG 1专注于设计和创造基于纳米粒子和生物聚合物网络的软材料，其结构和功能可以通过引入化学燃料或其他形式的能源来主动控制。这些新的、高度自适应的材料将有潜力用于从用于温度控制的光学涂层到人造细胞材料的应用。IRG 2解决了原子薄和分子材料的结构和对称工程所带来的新特性和功能。这些材料将为电子学、光子学、量子器件和系统的新功能开发提供令人信服的机会。这些研究活动与教育、外展和促进多样性和包容性的举措密切相关。该中心让小学教师参与材料研究，以提高教师的效能和学生在形成阶段对科学的参与，从而增加对科学、工程和相关领域感兴趣的学生的数量和多样性。一个教材播客、社区大学和西班牙裔服务机构的伙伴关系以及指导项目吸引了不同的人群，促进了与教材相关的教育和职业的广泛参与和成功。技术描述：IRG 1，燃料驱动的多能材料，专注于可以通过引入化学燃料或光能来主动控制其形态和功能的材料。受干细胞分化为具有不同结构和功能的启发，IRG 1将设计和合成具有多态、高度非平衡结构的材料，这些材料通过沿着设计的非平衡途径进行的动力学控制的燃料过程来获得。IRG 2，原子薄异质结构中的工程功能，利用固体，晶体材料异质结构，通过精确控制旋转排列的原子薄或分子材料堆叠层来实现基于拓扑，相关性和材料中的光物质耦合的新特性和功能。材料光学特性的共享设施将为MRSEC研究人员和更广泛的材料界提供服务。该中心的研究进展预计将使具有光学、流变学和收缩特性的新型自适应材料成为可能，这些材料在能源效率、先进制造和生物技术方面没有发现，并在固态材料、电子和光子学方面有变革性的发现，这些发现将影响未来的行业，包括量子信息科学、电信和未来的半导体。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。

Nontechnical Description: The Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials: an NSF MRSEC brings together researchers from across science and engineering to create materials with new atomic-scale structures and functionalities, and to develop approaches for actively controlling and reconfiguring materials in real time. These materials will enable the development of new and improved technologies in areas such as sustainable energy, quantum information processing, bioinspired systems, and semiconductors for telecommunications, computing, and sensing. The Center consists of two Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs). IRG 1 focuses on the design and creation of soft materials, based on nanoparticle and biopolymer networks, whose structure and functionality can be actively controlled by the introduction of chemical fuels or other forms of energy. These new, highly adaptive materials will have the potential to be used in applications ranging from optical coatings for temperature control to artificial cellular materials. IRG 2 addresses new properties and functions enabled by the engineering of structure and symmetry in atomically thin and molecular materials. Such materials will offer compelling opportunities to develop new capabilities for electronics, photonics, and quantum devices and systems. These research activities are closely integrated with initiatives in education, outreach, and the promotion of diversity and inclusion. The Center engages elementary school teachers in materials research to improve teacher efficacy and student engagement with science at a formative age, and thereby increase the number and diversity of students interested in science, engineering, and related fields. A materials podcast, community college and Hispanic-serving institution partnerships, and mentoring programs engage diverse populations and foster broad participation and success in materials-related education and careers.Technical Description: IRG 1, Fuel-Driven Pluripotent Materials, focuses on materials whose morphology and functionality can be actively controlled via the introduction of chemical fuels or optical energy. Inspired by stem cells that can differentiate to take on distinct structures and functions, IRG 1 will design and synthesize materials whose polymorphic, highly non-equilibrium structures are accessed by kinetically controlled fueling processes proceeding along designed, out-of-equilibrium pathways. IRG 2, Engineered Functionality in Atomically Thin Heterostructures, exploits solid-state, crystalline material heterostructures created by stacking layers of atomically thin or molecular materials with precisely controlled rotational alignments to realize new properties and functionalities based on topology, correlations, and light-matter coupling in materials. Shared facilities for optical characterization of materials will serve MRSEC researchers and the broader materials community. The Center’s research advances are expected to enable new adaptive materials with optical, rheological, and contractile properties not found in nature for energy efficiency, advanced manufacturing, and biotechnology, and transformative discoveries in solid-state materials, electronics, and photonics that will impact Industries of Tomorrow including quantum information science, telecommunications, and future semiconductors.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.