Conference: 2024 Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar on Multifunctional Materials and Structures; Ventura, California; January 27-February 2, 2024

该奖项将支持以发现可重构、混合和可持续材料为主题的2024年戈登多功能材料和结构研究会议（GRC），以及以多功能材料设计中的形态和层次为主题的戈登研究研讨会（GRS）。GRC将于2024年1月28日至2月2日在加州文图拉举行，在此之前，首届GRS将于2024年1月27日至28日在同一地点举行。多功能材料和结构GRC是该领域最新发展的领先技术论坛，汇集了不同群体的研究人员讨论最新进展和未发表的研究，产生新的想法，并促进富有成效的跨学科合作。首届GRS将由研究生、博士后学者和初级研究人员组织和参加。通过该奖项提供的资金将增加研究生和博士后学者参与者的数量，以培养该领域的下一代科学领袖。多功能的潜在社会效益和影响包括材料可持续性和能源资源管理，通过新的多功能响应，嵌入式寿命终止功能，更安全的系统，通过自适应和自我意识能力以及提高能源效率来延长工程组件的使用寿命。会议成果预计将包括实现以前不可能实现的混合多功能材料的新概念和机制，以及跨学科的新合作和合作方式。本次会议和临近的研讨会旨在解决以下相关的基本科学问题：(a)材料和结构多功能，形状可重构性和适应性，(b)通过机器学习和数据科学的理论和最新发展发现和合成混合多功能材料，(c)可计算和不规则材料和远离平衡的材料，(d)活工程材料系统和活性物质，以及(e)混合，固液多功能材料及材料再生与可持续性。会议将提出在这些创新研究领域取得重大进展的关键科学问题和瓶颈，并对广泛的应用产生潜在影响。来自充满活力的国际科学家和工程师社区的研究人员，以及包括物理学，力学，材料科学，工程科学，化学，生物学，数学和计算科学与工程在内的广泛学科，将解决与设想，设计和创造合成多功能材料和结构相关的问题。他们将找出差距，并提出将新功能集成到工程材料系统和结构中的潜在解决方案。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。

This award will support the 2024 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Multifunctional Materials and Structures on the theme of Discovery of Reconfigurable, Hybrid and Sustainable Materials and the accompanying Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on the theme of Morphology and Hierarchy in Multifunctional Materials Design. The GRC will be held in Ventura, California, on January 28 – February 2, 2024, preceded by the inaugural GRS that will take place at the same location on January 27 – 28, 2024. The GRC on Multifunctional Materials and Structures is a leading technical forum on the latest developments in the field, bringing together a diverse group of researchers to discuss recent advances and unpublished research, spawn new ideas, and foster productive interdisciplinary collaborations. The inaugural GRS will be organized and attended exclusively by graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and junior researchers. Funding through this award will increase the number of graduate student and post-doctoral scholar participants to prepare the next generation of scientific leaders in this field. The potential societal benefits and impact of multifunctionality include materials sustainability and energy resource management through lifetime extensions of engineered components that are enabled by new multifunctional response, embedded end-of-life functionalities, safer systems through adaptive and self-awareness capabilities and improved energy efficiency. The conference outcomes are expected to include novel concepts and mechanisms for achieving hybrid multifunctional materials not possible before, as well as new collaborations and ways of collaborating across disciplines.This conference and the adjacent seminar seek to address fundamental scientific issues associated with (a) material and structural multifunctionality, shape reconfigurability and adaptivity, (b) discovery and synthesis of hybrid multifunctional materials through theory and recent developments in machine learning and data sciences, (c) computable and irregular materials and materials far from equilibrium, (d) living engineering material systems and active matter, and (e) hybrid, solid-liquid multifunctional materials and material regeneration and sustainability. The conference will present key scientific issues and bottlenecks in making major advances in these innovative research areas, with prospective impacts to a broad range of applications. Researchers from a vibrant international community of scientists and engineers, and a wide range of disciplines encompassing physics, mechanics, materials science, engineering science, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and computational science and engineering, will address the issues associated with envisioning, designing, and creating synthetic multifunctional materials and structures. They will identify gaps and present potential solutions on the integration of novel functionalities into engineering material systems and structures.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.