CAREER: Nanostructured Surfaces and Materials

题为纳米结构表面和材料的提案旨在发展与纳米结构表面和材料有关的化学和物理学。许多（纳米）光刻技术将被证明用于产生具有良好定义的界面特性的纳米结构表面，以用作模型系统来研究表面化学和材料科学中的基本问题，例如润湿和去湿，非常小的液滴的接触线的钉扎，体积小到几毫微微升的液滴阵列的蒸发，在飞升反应器中结晶材料的成核和生长，以及局限于小液体体积的沉淀反应的化学。将研究与教育相结合的目的是将材料科学纳入入门和高级化学课程的教学，将材料相关实验引入实验室课程，为高年级本科生和研究生开发纳米结构材料新课程，并将少数民族，妇女和残疾人纳入研究计划。这些项目将对各种新兴纳米技术所需的基础化学和物理基础产生非常广泛的影响。将受益的技术应用包括金属、合金、金属氧化物和半导体的纳米微晶的有序二维阵列的制造，这些纳米微晶可以用作新型电、光、电光、磁、显示和信息存储设备的有源组件。这些高度相关的领域将对教育学生的新方法产生广泛的影响，这些方法将在新兴的全球经济中对现有工作具有高度竞争力。

The proposal entitled Nanostructured Surfaces and Materials aims to develop the chemistry and physics related to nanostructured surfaces and materials. A number of (nano) lithographic techniques will be demonstrated for generating nanostructured surfaces with well-defined interfacial properties to be used as model systems to investigate fundamental issues in surface chemistry and materials science such as wetting and dewetting, pinning of the contact line of a very small liquid drop, the evaporation of an array of liquid drops as small as a few femtoliters in volume, the nucleation and growth of crystalline materials in femtoliter reactors, and the chemistry of precipitation reactions confined to small liquid volumes. The integration of research with education will be aimed at the incorporation of materials science into the teaching of chemistry courses at both introductory and advanced levels, the introduction of materials related experiments into laboratory courses, the development of a new course on nanostructured materials for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and the inclusion of minorities, women, and persons with disabilities into the research programs. %%%These projects will have a very broad impact on the fundamental chemistry and physics basis needed for various emerging nanotechnologies. Technological applications that will benefit include the fabrication of ordered two-dimensional arrays of nanocrystalllites of metals, alloys, metal oxides, and semiconductors that can be employed as active components for new types of electrical, optical, electrooptical, magnetic, display, and information-storage devices. These high relevant areas will have a broad impact on new approaches to educating students that will be highly competitive for available jobs in the emerging global economy.***