International Research Experiences for Students (IRES): Students Summer Research Experience in Brazil

[0652022]摘要本课题拟为研究生和本科生开展二氧化钛纳米材料表面工程的研究和培训，目的是利用金属纳米颗粒和分子催化剂来提高电荷分离和光催化效率。学生们将由西密歇根大学的Pnina Ari-Gur博士及其同事和巴西圣卡洛斯联邦大学的Edson Roberto Leite博士指导。每年，两名研究生和两名本科生将在巴西呆上六周，为期三年。该项目还将利用巴西提供的资金，每年安排三名巴西学生到西密歇根大学与Ari-Gur博士和美国学生一起工作四周。这项建议的研究活动应导致与环境净化有关的新材料的发展和特性，以及对太阳能转换和若干工业重要性反应重要的知识。

0652022AbstractThis proposal will develop a research and training program for graduate and undergraduate students on surface engineering of titanium dioxide nanomaterials, via metal nanoparticles and molecular catalysts with the aim of improving charge separation, and photocatalytic efficiencies. Students will be supervised by Dr. Pnina Ari-Gur and colleagues at Western Michigan University and Dr. Edson Roberto Leite at the Universidad Federal de Sao Carlos in Brazil. Each year for three years two graduate students and two undergraduate students will spend six weeks in Brazil. This program will also use funding from Brazil to bring three Brazilian students a year to work with Dr. Ari-Gur and the US students for four weeks at Western Michigan University. The research activities of this proposal should lead to the development and characterization of new materials that are relevant to environmental decontamination and to knowledge important to solar energy conversion and several reactions of industrial importance.