Nanoscience and Engineering Center (NSEC) for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures

这个NSF纳米科学与工程中心（NSEC）在伦斯勒理工学院（RPI）和伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-尚潘分校（UIUC）的纳米结构定向组装的目标是解决设计和合成新材料，结构和设备的基础科学问题，这些新材料，结构和设备具有许多工业和生物医学应用的显着改进能力。 这项工作的重点是发现和开发在良好控制的、有意引导的条件下将具有独特性质的纳米级构建块组装成功能结构的方法。 定向组装是纳米技术最终成功的基本途径。 该中心将整合研究，教育和技术传播，并将作为纳米科学和技术的基础知识和应用的国家资源。 与主要行业合作，与具有不同学生群体的优质本科院校合作，并与创新的K-12教育推广计划合作，将确保该中心的研究，教育和推广工作的成果将对社会产生重大影响。 该综合研究计划将计算设计与实验相结合，专注于发现新的途径来组装功能性多尺度纳米结构，这些纳米结构具有结构，尺寸和组成不同的构建块之间的连接点和界面。 与洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室（LANL）的合作将大大加强理论工作。 该中心的核心研究计划包括两个跨学科的推力：纳米颗粒凝胶和聚合物纳米复合材料和纳米结构生物分子复合结构。 它将得到交叉理论和表征工作的支持，并辅之以新的研究工作，在有关核心竞争力，知识管理和全球化的根本性创新领域的纳米技术的社会经济影响。 因此，该中心的整体愿景包括研究，教育和推广，通过与所有年龄段的学生和行业成员的互动。 这一雄心勃勃的计划的结果将导致组装新的功能材料和设备的新方法，从纳米级的积木，学生和研究人员在纳米科学和工程培训的跨学科干部，并以纳米技术的新应用，以刺激工业进入21”世纪。 该中心包括21名RPI，UIUC和LANL的高级研究员，6名博士后，18名研究生，类似数量的本科生以及行政和技术支持人员的参与。

The goal of this NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC) is to address fundamental scientific issues underlying the design and synthesis of new materials, structures, and devices with dramatically improved capabilities for many industrial and biomedical applications. The work will focus on discovering and developing the means to assemble nanoscale building blocks with unique properties into functional structures under well-controlled, intentionally directed conditions. Directed assembly is the fundamental gateway to the eventual success of nanotechnology. The Center will integrate research, education, and technology dissemination, and will serve as a national resource for fundamental knowledge and applications of nanoscale science and technology. Partnering with major industry, with quality undergraduate colleges with diverse student populations, and with innovative K-1 2 educational outreach programs will ensure that the fruits of the Center's research, education, and outreach efforts will have a significant impact on society. The integrated research program combines computational design with experimentation to focus on the discovery of novel pathways to assemble functional multiscale nanostructures with junctions and interfaces between structurally, dimensionally, and compositionally different building blocks. A partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) will enhance significantly the theoretical effort. The Center's core research program consists of two interdisciplinary thrusts: Nanoparticle Gels and Polymer Nanocomposites and Nanostructured Biomolecule Composite Architectures. It will be supported by crosscutting theory and characterization efforts and complemented by a new research effort on socioeconomic impacts of nanotechnology in areas of radical innovation pertaining to core competency, knowledge management, and globalization. Thus, the overall vision for the Center encompasses research, education, and outreach through interactions with students of all ages and members of industry. The results of this ambitious program will lead to new methodologies for assembling novel functional materials and devices from nanoscale building blocks, to an interdisciplinary cadre of students and researchers trained in nanoscale science and engineering, and to novel applications of nanotechnology to spur industry into the 21" century. The Center includes participation of 21 senior investigators at RPI, UIUC, and LANL, 6 postdoctoral associates, 18 graduate students, a similar number of undergraduates, and administrative and technical support personnel.