A Proposal for Holding the Twelfth-to-Fourteenth NSF Materials Chemistry Workshop

该奖项由化学和材料研究部联合资助，支持由科罗拉多州立大学Peter K. Dorhout博士组织的一系列材料化学研讨会。这些讲习班将于2004年至2006年秋季举行。将从材料化学领域的各个方面的申请者中进行同行评审选择。每个研讨会将有约30名参与者参加，旨在汇集来自不同背景的科学家，他们对材料化学有共同的兴趣，包括无机、有机、物理、生物、聚合物和分析化学以及其他科学和工程学科。从教育和研究的角度来看，这些讲习班为材料化学的技术关键领域提供了一个重点。此外，讲习班促进工业界、政府和学术科学家之间的对话和合作，在一个论坛上确定基本和技术问题，并促进对这些问题的调查。这些研讨会的智力价值来自于参与者之间有机发展的网络，这些网络是在这些研讨会固有的非正式和生动的讨论中发展起来的，因为突破性的科学被提出，新的合作研究努力被探索。来自主要本科院校（PUIs）的教师可以与更大的大学、工业和国家实验室的研究人员联系，以了解新的研究和新的机会。这些材料化学研讨会的气氛将继续有利于通过以下方式进行讨论和传播思想：(i)尽可能广泛地征求申请人，针对材料化学社区的所有部门，特别注意鼓励工业，政府，少数民族，妇女和年轻的材料化学家申请。根据择优标准选择参与者，目的是培养多样化和相互作用的参与者群体。坚持一种促进思想讨论和不鼓励正式陈述过去研究成果的报告形式。在这些指导方针下，研讨会提供了非正式的、挑衅性的和刺激的讨论，讨论材料化学的新方向。

This award, which is jointly funded by the Divisions of Chemistry and Materials Research, supports a series of Materials Chemistry Workshops, which are to be organized by Dr. Peter K. Dorhout at Colorado State University. Participants in these workshops, which will be held in the autumns of 2004 through 2006. will be drawn from applicants from all aspects of the field of materials chemistry with peer-reviewed selection. Approximately 30 participants will attend each workshop, which are designed to bring together scientists with common materials chemistry interests from diverse backgrounds including inorganic, organic, physical, biological, polymer and analytical chemistry as well as other science and engineering disciplines. The workshops provide a focus for the technologically critical field of materials chemistry from both educational and research points of view. In addition, the workshops promote dialogue and collaboration between industry, government and academic scientists in a forum that identifies fundamental and technological problems and stimulates their investigation. The intellectual merit of these workshops derives from the networks that organically develop between the participants during the informal and vivid discussions inherent to these workshops as breaking science is presented and new collaborative research efforts are explored. Faculty from Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) can connect with felow researchers in larger universities, industry and national laboratories to learn of new research and new opportunities. The atmosphere of these materials chemistry workshops will continue to be conducive to discussion and dissemination of ideas via the following means: (i) The broadest possible solicitation for applicants, aimed at all sectors of the materials chemistry community with special attention to encouraging industrial, government, minority, women, and young materials chemists to apply. (ii) Selection of participants based on merit-based criteria designed to produce a diverse and interactive group of participants. (iii) Adherence to a presentation format that promotes discussion of ideas and discourages formal presentation of past research results. Within these guidelines, the workshops provide for informal, provocative and stimulating discussions of new directions in materials chemistry.