MRSEC: Center for Materials Innovations at Michigan

非技术描述：密歇根大学材料创新中心将建立一个变革性的校园生态系统，以加速对未来工业至关重要的新材料的设计、发现和部署，包括先进制造、清洁能源/可持续性、人工智能和未来半导体。在这个生态系统中，密歇根大学的研究人员和来自工业界、学术界和国家实验室的合作者之间建立了长期的伙伴关系。基于材料基因组计划的原则，跨学科研究小组结合计算、统计、理论和实验方法，研究新型半导体异质结构中的加工-结构-性质关系，用于先进的量子信息处理和环境可持续的可重构聚合物。该中心的结构强调研究和教育的整合，重点是吸引/留住下一代材料研究人员：一个反映整个社会的多元化研究人员群体。为了建立和维护整个校园的生态系统，该中心将通过一系列旨在扩大参与和加强知识转移的活动来吸引所有材料研究人员。该中心的定位是通过其种子项目来应对新兴的机会。技术描述：密歇根大学材料创新中心将建立两个跨学科研究小组。IRG1，“内源性2D多型异质结构”，将定义一类新的材料，其中不同的多型相互合成（内源性），在超干净的2D界面上创建鲁棒，新颖的量子态。该方法包括计算驱动的内源性材料及其独特性质的预测，随后合成与纳米电子学处理兼容的内源性材料，发现新的量子态，以及内源性器件的演示。这些先前难以捉摸的量子态有望使经典和量子信息处理取得快速进展。IRG2，“用于可持续和可调节功能材料的共价适应性网络（CAN）”，旨在发现和部署具有高活性交联分子的新型聚合物材料，在链之间形成可逆的共价键，赋予自我修复，重新配置和回收能力。该方法结合了基于仿真和数据驱动的交联剂架构设计，以及修订的粘弹性理论，以预测CAN系统对热、机械和光子刺激的响应性。对最有前途的设计的特定应用性能标准的合成、表征和分析将产生新的基本理解，从而能够开发快速可回收塑料、周期性自修复结构复合材料、新的增材制造路线、自触发机械超材料和性能可按需调节的功能材料。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。

Non-technical Description: This Center for Materials Innovations at Michigan will establish a transformative campus-wide ecosystem to accelerate the design, discovery, and deployment of novel materials critical for the Industries of Tomorrow, including advanced manufacturing, clean energy/sustainability, artificial intelligence, and future semiconductors. Embedded in the ecosystem is a long-term partnership between UM researchers and collaborators from industry, academia, and national laboratories. Building upon the principles of the Materials Genome Initiative, the interdisciplinary research groups combine computational, statistical, theoretical, and experimental approaches to examine processing-structure-property relationships in novel semiconductor heterostructures for advanced quantum information processing and reconfigurable polymers that are environmentally sustainable. The Center structure emphasizes the integration of research and education, with an emphasis on attracting/retaining the next generation of materials researchers: a diverse body of researchers reflecting society at large. To build and maintain the campus-wide ecosystem, the Center will work to engage all materials researchers through a suite of activities aimed at broadening participation and enhancing knowledge transfer. The Center is positioned to respond to emerging opportunities through its Seed projects.Technical Description: The Center for Materials Innovations at Michigan will establish two interdisciplinary research groups. IRG1, "Endotaxial 2D Polytype Heterostructures", will define a new class of materials wherein distinct polytypes are synthesized within each other (endotaxy), to create robust, novel quantum states at ultra-clean 2D interfaces. The approach consists of computationally-driven prediction of endotaxial materials and their distinct properties, followed by synthesis of endotaxial materials compatible with nanoelectronics processing, discovery of novel quantum states, and demonstration of endotaxial devices. These previously elusive quantum states are expected to enable rapid progress in classical and quantum information processing. IRG2, "Covalent Adaptable Networks (CAN) for Sustainable and Regulatable Functional Materials", aims to discover and deploy new polymeric materials with highly reactive crosslinker molecules forming reversible covalent bonds between chains, imparting self-healing, reconfiguration, and recycling capabilities. The approach consists of combining simulation-based and data-driven design of crosslinker architectures with a revised viscoelasticity theory to predict the responsiveness of CAN systems to thermal, mechanical, and photonic stimuli. Synthesis, characterization, and analysis of application-specific performance criteria for the most promising designs will result in new fundamental understanding that enables the development of rapidly recyclable plastics, recurrently self-healing structural composites, new additive manufacturing routes, self-triggered mechanical metamaterials, and functional materials whose properties can be regulated on demand.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.