International Network: Education and Research on Energy and Nanoscience

这个能源和纳米科学教育和研究的国际网络将来自美国七所大学和两个实验室的研究人员和学生与来自两个法国机构、一个德国机构和六个捷克共和国机构的欧洲伙伴联系起来。作为组织者和首席研究员，科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的Josef Michl将与网络成员高级和初级教师合作，推进与可再生能源和纳米化学相关的跨学科领域。他们的目标是在未来一代研究人员之间建立专业联系，同时产生有助于在太阳能转换，电池和燃料电池开发，光电子学和流体等重要领域的未来应用的基本结果，这些领域需要高效的新材料。这项工作的核心是通过一年一度的研究所式研讨会和为美国博士和研究生提供的流动项目进行多种互动，这些博士生和研究生将前往参与的实验室进行明确的、长期的研究访问。参与研究的美国机构包括北卡罗莱纳州立大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校、西北大学、范德比尔特大学、内华达大学、科罗拉多大学博尔德分校、犹他大学、布鲁克海文国家实验室和国家可再生能源实验室。在欧洲，主要的合作机构是里昂高等师范学院、埃尔兰根大学和捷克有机化学与生物化学研究所。参与的科学家们设想了一个丰富的思想交流，这将：1)刺激理论家和实验家之间新的和高度的互动，2)促进专业研究技术的改进，以及专家合成小组和擅长新材料测量和表征的同行之间的样本共享。这个能源和纳米科学教育和研究的跨学科流动网络实现了推进科学知识的计划目标，使美国和欧洲的专家能够结合互补的人才，并在共同感兴趣和有能力的领域分享研究资源。更广泛的影响包括将美国研究生和初级教师引入美国9个主要研究机构和9个欧洲研究界的主要科学家的早期职业生涯。他们的经验应该为他们在全球化时代的团队合作和追求新的功能材料做好准备。

This international network for education and research in energy and nanoscience links researchers and students from seven universities and two laboratories in the United States with European partners at two French institutions, one German and six in the Czech Republic. As organizer and principal investigator, Josef Michl at University of Colorado-Boulder will work with network-member senior and junior faculty to advance the interdisciplinary fields related to renewable energy and nano-chemistry. Their goal is to grow professional ties among an up-coming generation of researchers while producing fundamental results that contribute to future applications in important areas such as solar energy conversion, batteries and fuel cell development, optoelectronics, and fluidics, where efficient new materials are in demand. Central to the effort are multiple interactions through annual institute-type workshops and a program of mobility for recent U.S. Ph. D.s and graduate students who will go to participating laboratories for defined, extended research visits. Participating U.S institutions include North Carolina State University, University of California-Los Angeles, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, University of Nevada, University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Utah, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. In Europe, the lead partner institutions are Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon, Universitat Erlangen, and the Czech Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. Participating scientists envision a rich exchange of ideas that will: 1) stimulate new and heightened interaction between theorists and experimentalists and 2) promote refinement of specialized research techniques as well as sample sharing among expert synthesis groups and counterparts who excel in measurement and characterization of new materials. This interdisciplinary mobility network for education and research in energy and nanoscience fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling experts in the United States and Europe to combine complementary talents and share research resources in areas of strong mutual interest and competence. Broader impacts include the early career introduction of U.S. graduate students and junior faculty to principal scientists at nine leading U.S. research institutions and nine in the European research community. Their experience should prepare them well for teamwork in a global age and the pursuit of new functional materials.