CAREER: Combinatorially-Engineered Interfaces for Inorganic Nanostructures

杜奎恩大学化学系的David W.Wright博士得到了国家科学基金会化学部无机、生物无机和有机金属化学项目的支持，以表彰他在职业奖下的工作，该奖项的主要重点是开发无机纳米结构的功能界面。具体地说，主要目标是使用合成组合方法来设计、合成和表征支架的“分子工具箱”，用于合成受生物矿化过程启发的新材料。根据研究活动的多学科性质，该奖项还支持为高年级本科生开发综合实验室概念和为一年级研究生提供实践。如果这种多学科研究跨越材料科学、环境、化学、生物和纳米技术等领域，研究生和博士后助理将接受不同学科和子学科的培训。综合实验室的概念和让学生“用脑思考，用手做”的教学目标将为本科生和研究生提供基本技能和哲学，使他们接触到创新的独立研究方法。

Dr. David W. Wright, Department of Chemistry, Duquesne University is supported by the Inorganic, Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry program of the Division of Chemistry, National Science Foundation, for his work under a Career Award whose principal focus is the development of functional interfaces for inorganic nanostructures. Specifically, the main objective is the use of synthetic combinatorial approaches to design, synthesize and characterize a "molecular toolbox" of scaffolds for the synthesis of new materials inspired by biomineralization processes. Following the multidisciplinary nature of the research activities, the award also supports development of an integrated laboratory concept for upper-class undergraduates and a practicum for first year graduate students.To the extent that this multidisciplinary research cuts across such fields as material science, the environment, chemistry, biology and nanotechnology, graduate students and post-doctoral associates will be trained in diversified disciplines and sub-disciplines. The integrated laboratory concept and the pedagogical goal to have students "think with their heads and do with their hands" will provide undergraduate and graduate students with basic skills and a philosophy that will expose them to innovative approaches for independent research.