GOALI/FRG: Science and Technology of Thermal Sprayed Interfaces and Layered Structures

GOALI/FRG计划下的合作框架被提议用来规范热喷涂研究中心(CTSR)、纽约州立大学石溪分校的跨学科研究人员和一群工业合作伙伴之间的高效互动，这些合作伙伴通过全球使用的材料加工技术(热喷涂--一个数十亿美元的表面工程行业)的共同联系来指导，但具有不同的材料兴趣/应用。主要的学术目标是探索TS生产的涂层和材料的关键的、未被探索的微结构和纳米结构特征。这无疑将极大地增强信心(可能是主要的依赖)，提高材料和工艺技术的适用性，并扩大在新领域的部署。该计划将提供一个焦点，允许各种产业利益通过基础跨学科科学框架汇聚在一起。此外，它还将为研究生和本科生提供机会，并与业界同行密切合作，提供从K-12到12岁的外展。具体计划包括(A)研究生和行业合作者之间的一对一互动，(B)学生有机会在半年一次的行业审查和论文委员会上展示结果，(C)在工业现场的实习生机会，以及(D)实地考察Splat(喷洒、学习和测试)中心，这是一个特别设计的、对儿童友好的互动研究实验室，将成为外展工作的枢纽和核心，并将为成千上万的年轻人和教师提供一个自己的空间，欢迎他们探索和发现广泛的令人兴奋和高度相关的主题。工业伙伴将探索如何帮助提供设备、教学模块和媒体等资源，以加强科学与工业的联系。最后，通过我们独特的与行业相关的K-12扩展，现实世界的相关性将激励一代儿童追求物理科学和工程领域的职业。主要的智力目标是对快速淬火界面和缺陷结构的力学和物理以及它们相互作用所产生的性质有一个基本的了解。这代表着合理而关键的下一步，不仅是将TS涂层提升到“主要依赖”状态，而且将这些材料扩展到新的中尺度功能器件(例如燃料电池、传感器)。活动必须建立在通过非常成功的MRSEC计划(即将完成)实现的过程科学、新颖的表征和分析/数字模型的基础上，并调查公认的和新确定的具有深远工业重要性的基础材料问题。拟议的科学努力与行业伙伴关系紧密交织在一起，还提供了一个雄心勃勃和富有想象力的教育推广概念，旨在激励未来的科学家和工程师进入被视为传统但重要的、扩展和变革材料学科。

A collaborative framework under the GOALI/FRG program is proposed to formalize a highly productive interaction between interdisciplinary researchers at Center for Thermal Spray Research (CTSR) SUNY Stony Brook and a group of industrial partners guided through a common linkage of a globally-used materials process technology (thermal spray - a multi-billion dollar surface engineering industry) but with a diversity of materials interests/applications. The principal intellectual goal is to explore key, unexplored microstructural and nanostructural features of TS-produced coatings and materials. This will no doubt lead to dramatically enhanced confidence (potentially for prime reliance), increased applicability and expanded deployment of the materials and process technologies into new territories. This program will provide a focal point allowing various industrial interests to converge through a framework of fundamental interdisciplinary science. In addition, it will offer opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students as well as K-12 outreach, working closely with industrial counterparts. Specific plans include (a) One-on-one interaction between graduate students and industrial collaborators, (b) Opportunities for students to present results at bi-annual industry review and via thesis committees, (c) intern opportunities at industrial sites and (d) Field trips to the SPLAT (SPraying, Learning And Testing) Center, a specially designed, 'kid-friendly' interactive research laboratory that will be the hub and heart of the outreach efforts and will offer thousands of young people and teachers a space of their own where they are welcome to explore and discover a wide range of exciting and highly relevant topics. Industrial partners will explore ways to help provide resources such as equipment, teaching modules and media to fortify science links to industry. Finally, the real-world relevance through our unique industry linked K-12 outreach will inspire a generation of children to pursue careers in physical sciences and engineering. The principal intellectual goal is to develop a fundamental understanding of the mechanics and physics of rapidly-quenched interfaces and defective structures, and properties resulting from their interaction. This represents a logical and critical next step not only in the elevation of TS coatings to 'prime reliant' status, but expansion of these materials into new, meso-scale functional devices (e.g. fuel cells, sensors). Activities will necessarily build on process science, novel characterization and analytical/numerical models achieved through a highly successful MRSEC program (near completion) and investigate both recognized and newly-identified fundamental materials issues of profound industrial importance. Proposed scientific efforts are tightly woven with the industrial partnership and also offer an ambitious and imaginative educational outreach concept aimed at inspiring future scientists and engineers into a seen-as-traditional, yet important, expanding and transforming materials discipline.