MRSEC: Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

宾夕法尼亚大学材料研究科学工程中心（MRSEC）将在过去成功的基础上，接纳新的教师，开展一项整合材料设计、合成、表征和理论建模的计划。这些材料的范围从混合大分子和从头蛋白质，具有受自然启发的结构功能，到具有独特性能的纳米和微米结构的硬软材料。 潜在的实际成果是在药物输送，能量转导，电子，传感器和细胞探针领域。 MRSEC的研究围绕五个跨学科研究小组（IRG）组织，这些小组的目标是具有高科技应用潜力的新型先进材料，如能量转换，电子，传感器，细胞探针等。材料界面是一个反复出现的主题，生物合成结构和软硬材料复合材料之间的相互作用也是如此。 MRSEC支持一系列教育和人力资源开发计划，其影响范围从K-12学生及其教师到少数民族服务机构的本科生和教师。 它通过材料研究和教育伙伴关系与乌马考的波多黎各大学建立了联系。 MRSEC管理着广泛的共享设施，使更广泛的研究社区受益。 MRSEC与宾夕法尼亚大学的技术转让中心有联系，以许可其发现和发明进行转化研究，从而确保MRSEC研究与社会需求的结合。MRSEC包含以下IRG：丝状网络和结构化凝胶，IRG-1探索丝状网络的性质，目标是设计合成响应性网络材料。功能圆柱体组件，IRG-2将合成半柔性，功能圆柱体，由树枝状聚合物自组装嵌段共聚物组成。 合成可编程膜，IRG-3从四个部门的专业知识，设计完全集成的功能类似物的细胞膜。用于光捕获催化的从头合成蛋白质模块，IRG-4利用原子级结构和功能机制的丰富生物资源来指导新型蛋白质作为模块化纳米尺度材料的设计合成。基于氧化物的分层界面材料，IRG-5将利用理论，合成，实验，从四个部门的专业知识，创造和理解新的分层界面氧化物材料。 该中心的参与者目前包括来自七个部门的38名高级研究员，12名博士后助理和22名研究生。 Michael L.教授克莱因指挥MRSEC。

The University of Pennsylvania Materials Research Science & Engineering Center (MRSEC) will build on past success and embrace new faculty to pursue a program to integrate the design, synthesis, characterization, theory & modeling of materials. These materials range from hybrid macro-molecules and de novo proteins, with architectures & functions inspired by nature, to nano- and micro-structured hard & soft materials with unique properties. Potential practical outcomes are in the areas of drug delivery, energy transduction, electronics, sensors, and cellular probes. The MRSEC research is organized around five Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs), which target new advanced materials with potential for high-technology applications in diverse areas such as energy transduction, electronics, sensors, & cellular probes. Materials interfaces are a recurrent theme, as is the interplay between biological & synthetic constructs and composites of hard & soft materials. The MRSEC sustains an array of education and human resources development programs, whose impact will range from K-12 students and their teachers to undergraduates and faculty at minority serving institutions. It is associated with the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao through a Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM). The MRSEC manages extensive shared facilities that benefit the broader research community. The MRSEC is linked with Penn's Center for Technology Transfer to license its discoveries and inventions for translational research thereby ensuring the coupling of MRSEC research to the needs of society. The MRSEC contains the following IRGs: Filamentous Networks andStructured Gels, IRG-1 explores the properties of filamentous networks with a goal to design & synthesize responsive network materials. Functional Cylindrical Assemblies, IRG-2 will synthesize semi-flexible, functional cylinders, composed of dendrimer-based polymers & self-assembling block copolymers. Synthetic Programmable Membranes, IRG-3 draws expertise from four departments to design fully integrated functional analogues of cellular membranes. De Novo Synthetic Protein Modules for Light-Capture & Catalysis, IRG-4 draws on the rich biological resource of atomic-level structures and functional mechanisms to guide design & synthesis of novel proteins as modular nano-scale materials. Oxide-based Hierarchical Interfacial Materials, IRG-5 will harness expertise in theory, synthesis, & experiment, from four departments to create and understand novel hierarchical interfacial oxide materials. Participants in the Center currently include 38 senior investigators, 12 postdoctoral associates, and 22 graduate students from seven departments. Professor Michael L. Klein directs the MRSEC.