MRSEC: Center for Materials Innovations at Michigan

MRSEC：密歇根材料创新中心

• 批准号: 2309029
• 负责人: Rachel Goldman
• 金额: $ 1800万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2029-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2309029&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRSEC; Center; Materials; Innovations; Michigan

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.

非技术描述：密歇根州的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型材料的设计，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。嵌入在生态系统中的是UM研究人员与来自工业，学术界和国家实验室的合作者之间的长期合作伙伴关系。基于材料基因组计划的原则，跨学科的研究小组联合收割机结合计算，统计，理论和实验方法来研究先进的量子信息处理和可重构聚合物的新型半导体异质结构的加工-结构-性能关系，这些聚合物是环境可持续的。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研究人员的多元化机构。为了建立和维护整个校园的生态系统，该中心将努力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应对新出现的机会。技术说明：密歇根州的材料创新中心将建立两个跨学科的研究小组。IRG 1，“Endotaxial 2D Polytype Heterostructures”，将定义一类新的材料，其中不同的多型体在彼此内合成（endotaxy），以在超洁净的2D界面上创建稳健的新型量子态。该方法包括计算驱动的预测endotaxial材料及其独特的属性，然后是与纳米电子处理兼容的endotaxial材料的合成，发现新的量子态，并演示endotaxial设备。这些以前难以捉摸的量子态有望在经典和量子信息处理方面取得快速进展。IRG 2，“可持续和可调节功能材料的共价自适应网络（CAN）”，旨在发现和部署具有高反应性交联剂分子的新型聚合物材料，这些分子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。该方法包括结合基于模拟和数据驱动的交联剂体系结构的设计与修订的粘弹性理论来预测CAN系统对热，机械和光子刺激的响应。针对最有前途的设计的特定应用性能标准的合成、表征和分析将导致新的基本理解，从而能够开发快速可回收塑料、循环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、该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。