Collaborative Research: Workshop: Challenges and Prospects for the Next 10 Years of Nanochemistry

在化学系大分子、超分子和纳米化学项目的支持下，威廉·马什·赖斯大学的斯蒂芬·林克教授、匹兹堡大学的吉尔·米尔斯通教授和天普大学的凯瑟琳·威利特教授将组织一个关于纳米化学的研讨会。 该研讨会的目标是汇集一个科学和人口统计学上多样化的研究人员小组，跨越化学，材料科学和工程的多个子学科，以确定和定义当今纳米化学研究的主要挑战和机遇。 讨论主题旨在促进纳米结构的合成和表征的有效，可持续和可翻译的进步，并推进这些系统的基础化学知识，特别是它们在纳米电子学，半导体材料，清洁能源研究和技术，传感，催化和量子信息科学中的应用。 研讨会的成果将在开放获取期刊文章中广泛传播。研讨会计划于2023年夏季举行。 该研讨会将汇集约35名参与者，包括理论家和实验研究人员，以确定未充分探索但有前途的纳米化学研究方向和这些进步的障碍。 与会者，具有从合成和组装到光谱学和纳米级成像的专业知识，将讨论纳米结构合成的创新方法和挑战，并进行高影响力的单一实体测量及其与集合属性的联系。 该奖项反映了NSF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。

With the support of the Macromolecular, Supramolecular and Nanochemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Professors Stephan Link of William Marsh Rice University, Jill Millstone of the University of Pittsburgh, and Katherine Willets of Temple University will organize a workshop on nanochemistry. The goal of the workshop is to bring together a scientifically and demographically diverse group of researchers across multiple sub-disciplines of chemistry, materials science, and engineering to identify and define the principal challenges and opportunities in nanochemistry research today. The discussion themes aim to promote efficient, sustainable, and translatable advancements in the synthesis and characterization of nanostructures and to advance fundamental chemistry knowledge of these systems, particularly toward their application in nanoelectronics, semiconducting materials, clean energy research and technology, sensing, catalysis, and quantum information science. The workshop outcomes will be broadly disseminated in an Open Access journal article.The workshop is planned for the summer of 2023. The workshop will bring together about 35 participants, including both theoreticians and experimental researchers, to identify underexplored, yet promising, research directions in nanochemistry and roadblocks to those advancements. Participants, with expertise ranging from synthesis and assembly to spectroscopy and nanoscale imaging, will discuss innovative approaches and challenges to the synthesis of nanostructures and to making high impact single entity measurements and their connections to ensemble properties. They will also consider the knowledge gaps in and new perspectives on nanostructure surface chemistry.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.