US-Turkey Cooperative Research: Functionalized Acrylates with Tailored Properties and Applications

描述：该奖项是为了支持由密西西比州哈蒂斯堡南密西西比大学聚合物科学系的Lon Mathias博士和土耳其伊斯坦布尔Bogazici大学化学系的Duygu Avci博士合作的项目。两校还计划进行教授交流、短期研修班交流、科研人员交流、研究生和本科生交流等。他们还计划建立第一个多功能丙烯酸酯国际研讨会，包括一个研讨会和会议记录，其中包括对α -羟甲基丙烯酸酯及其衍生物（RHMA's）的聚合物化学、性质和应用的全面概述。多功能丙烯酸酯（一组以其独特的环化和共聚特性而闻名的化合物）研究领域的一个新方面是广泛使用计算技术来模拟分子的化学反应动力学。在这个项目中，合作者计划将他们的专业知识结合到一个重要的科学研究工作中，并为美国研究生和本科生提供国际经验。两个团队之前的合作主要集中在实验设计和生产上。所提出的分析和计算研究与实验方法的结合将对新知识的进步作出重大贡献。新的多媒体教育材料将是这次合作的成果，重点是新的单体和聚合物系统的合成和计算方面。这些将建立在合作者在南密西西比大学和Bogazici教授或即将教授的课程上。学生参与的国际合作是一个重要特点。本项目由国际科学与工程办公室和材料研究司支持。

0218222Mathias Description: This award is for support of a cooperative project by Dr. Lon Mathias, Department of Polymer Science, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi and Dr. Duygu Avci, Chemistry Department, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. They plan to carry out an exchange of professors between the two universities for the purpose of teaching classes, running short courses, an exchange of scientists, graduate and undergraduate students for research purposes. They also plan to establish the first international symposium on multifunctional acrylates involving a workshop and proceedings containing comprehensive overviews of the polymer chemistry, properties and applications of alpha-hydroxymethylacrylates and derivatives (RHMA's). A novel aspect of the research in the area of multifunctional acrylates, a group of compounds distinguished by their unique cyclization and copolymerization properties, is the extensive use of computational techniques for modeling the chemical reaction kinetics of the molecules.Scope: In this project the collaborators plan to combine their expertise in an important scientific research effort, and to provide international experiences to U.S. graduate and undergraduate students. Previous collaborations between the two teams focused on experimental design and production. The combination of the proposed analytical and computational research and experimental approaches will contribute significantly to the advancement of new knowledge. New multimedia education material will be an outcome of this collaboration, focused on both synthetic and computational aspects of new monomer and polymer systems. These will build on courses taught or to be taught at University of Southern Mississippi and Bogazici by the collaborators. The international collaborations involving students is an important feature. This project is supported by the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Division of Materials Research.