2024 Gordon Research Conference on Tribology: At the Nexus of Science, Engineering, and Sustainability; Lewiston, Maine; 22-28 June 2024

该基金将为5名受邀参与者和大约21名研究生、博士后和/或早期职业研究者提供部分注册费支持，以参加2024年6月22日至28日在缅因州刘易斯顿举行的2024年戈登摩擦学研究会议：在科学、工程和可持续性的联系上。摩擦学是研究滑动接触处摩擦和磨损的科学。摩擦学的研究和工程努力解决摩擦和磨损背后的物理和化学机制，旨在设计材料、工艺和设备，从而为技术挑战提供新的解决方案。摩擦学的进步有助于通过降低摩擦来减少能源消耗，延长寿命，通过减少磨损来提高机械系统的安全性，并通过减少能源使用来减少从车辆到制造业应用中的有害排放。摩擦学也影响着在地球上活动的人类和动物的生命。戈登摩擦学研究会议（GRC）是一个交流前沿研究成果的论坛，在一个跨学科的科学家和工程师群体中，他们站在解决该领域基础和应用挑战的最前沿。该奖项将促进来自不同背景的学生和早期职业研究人员在GRC的参与。这个副标题，“在科学、工程和可持续性的联系上”，反映了一个事实，即对摩擦学现象的全面理解需要多学科知识，包括一系列科学和工程的经典领域；下一个重大突破很可能出现在学科之间的联系中。大多数摩擦学家都是在其中一个领域接受培训，重点是科学或工程，然后在从学校过渡到现实世界的过程中接触到其他领域。认识到摩擦学的多学科和多尺度挑战，下一个重大突破可能会在学科之间的联系中找到。为了实现这些突破，非常多样化的摩擦学社区需要走到一起，共同学习和发现。因此，2024年摩擦学GRC邀请来自所有学科的科学家和工程师讨论和辩论该领域的前沿研究问题，并分享如何从不同角度解决这些问题。成果和思想的交流是在非正式的气氛中进行的，从主要科学家的邀请演讲开始，然后围绕投稿的海报进行扩展讨论。对不同长度尺度上各种机制之间相互作用的科学讨论有望在理解导致摩擦和磨损的界面现象方面取得突破。2024年GRC将提供一个讨论和学习的场所。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 grant will provide partial support of registration fees for 5 invited participants and approximately 21 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and/or early career investigators to attend the 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Tribology: At the Nexus of Science, Engineering, and Sustainability being held in Lewiston, Maine, 22-28 June 2024. Tribology is the science of friction and wear at the sliding contacts. Research and engineering efforts in tribology address the physical and chemical mechanisms underlying friction and wear and aim to design materials, processes, and devices such that new solutions to technological challenges become available. Advances in tribology help to reduce energy consumption by lowering friction, to prolong the lifetime, and enhance the safety of mechanical systems by reducing wear, and to decrease harmful emissions in applications from vehicles to manufacturing through the reduction of energy use. Tribology also impacts the life of humans and animals that move on earth. The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Tribology is a forum to exchange results of cutting-edge research amongst an interdisciplinary group of scientists and engineers who are at the forefront of addressing fundamental and applied challenges in this field. This award will promote the participation of students and early-career researchers from diverse backgrounds at the GRC. This subtitle, “At the Nexus of Science, Engineering, and Sustainability,” reflects the fact that a comprehensive understanding of tribological phenomena requires multidisciplinary knowledge encompassing a range of classical fields in science and engineering; the next significant breakthroughs are likely to be found at the nexus between disciplines. Most tribologists are trained in one of these fields with an emphasis on either science or engineering and then exposed to other fields as they make transitions from schools to real-world situations. Realizing the multidisciplinary and multiscale challenges in tribology, the next significant breakthroughs are likely to be found at the nexus between disciplines. To achieve these breakthroughs, the very diverse tribology community needs to come together to learn and discover together. Therefore, the 2024 GRC on Tribology invites scientists and engineers from all disciplines to discuss and debate the forefront research questions in the field, and to share how these questions are addressed from different angles. The exchange of results and ideas is held in an informal atmosphere, starting from invited talks given by leading scientists and continuing in extended discussions around contributed posters. The scientific discussion of interplays among various mechanisms over different length scales is expected to lead to breakthroughs in the understanding of the interfacial phenomena leading to friction and wear. The 2024 GRC will provide a venue for this discussion and learning.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.