GOALI: New Techniques and Polymer Materials for Micro- and Nano-Patterning

智力优势：纳米技术的进步使研究人员能够探索许多新的材料系统和器件结构在纳米尺度和减少的尺寸。微纳米结构的光刻技术对于开发这种结构及其新的应用至关重要。在这个GOALI计划中，我们将开发与基于压印的纳米光刻相关的新材料和图案化技术。我们将研究这项新技术中尚未得到充分解决的一些重要科学问题，开发新材料和方法，以进一步扩大其适用于不同类型的基底和应用的范围，并开发简化的工艺，使这项技术可供不同学科的广泛研究人员使用。更广泛的影响：该GOALI计划将为学生提供来自工业合作和参与跨学科研究的宝贵经验。该项目还将为本科生、妇女和暑期高中生提供研究机会。该计划的新发展将通过科学会议和期刊出版物及时传播，并将纳入微型和纳米技术的研究生课程。通过向科学界提供一种真正简单、低成本和高通量的纳米光刻技术，它不仅有助于迅速扩散这些新发展的知识，而且通过与其他领域研究人员的互动，我们将能够确定这些技术可以实现的许多新的重要应用。

Intellectual Merits: Advances in Nanotechnologies have enabled researchers to explore many new material systems and device structures in nanoscale and in reduced dimensions. Lithography for micro- and nanofabrication is of utmost importance for exploiting such structures as well as their new applications. In this GOALI program we will develop new materials and patterning techniques related to imprinting-based nanolithography. We will investigate a number of important scientific issues involved in this new technology that have not been adequately addressed, to develop new materials and methodologies to further expand the scope of its applicability to different types of substrates and applications, and to develop simplified processes that will make this technology accessible to wide range of researchers in different disciplines. Broader Impacts: This GOALI program will provide students with valuable experience from industrial collaboration and from participation in interdisciplinary researches. The project will also provide research opportunities for undergraduates, woman, and summer high school students. New development from this program will be disseminated in a timely manner through scientific conferences and journal publications, and will be incorporated into a graduate course on micro- and nanotechnology. By providing a truly simple, low-cost and high-throughput nanolithography technique to the scientific community, it will not only help to rapidly proliferate the knowledge on these new development, but also through the interaction with researchers from other fields we will be able to identify many new important applications that can be enabled by these technologies.