U.S.-Jordan Workshop "Nano structured Advanced Materials", Amman, Jordan, June 2008

0742767 Nayfeh描述：该奖项是为了支持将于2008年6月在约旦安曼举行的“美国-约旦纳米结构先进材料研讨会”。 组织者是伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校物理系的Munir Nayfeh博士和约旦安曼约旦大学物理系的Laila Abuhassan博士。 研讨会的参与者将来自该地区的国家，包括黎巴嫩、约旦、伊拉克、叙利亚和土耳其以及美国的几个研究所。该研讨会将作为一种工具，以确定该地区活跃的科学家和团体，目前共同感兴趣的领域，优先事项以及美国-可能启动中东联合研究项目，并可能获得支持。智力优势：当材料处于固体块体和分子状态之间的过渡状态（即纳米级）时，通常获得增强的甚至新颖的性质，例如更好的机械、电学、光学以及化学性质。 因此，它们可以变得更轻、更坚固、生产和使用更便宜。与这些国家打交道的纳米技术是工业国家和发展中国家都可以在发展的前沿参与的一个领域，因此有利于合作。纳米技术研究的推动力是阐明过渡状态下材料的性质，以及利用这种性质以更低的成本制造更好的产品，并具有允许改善生活质量的新功能。研讨会的主题将包括：聚合物、陶瓷和生物陶瓷为基础的先进纳米结构材料、合成、表征和加工;先进材料在化学工业、生物医学、能源、电子和光子学、环境和农业中的应用。这次研讨会将激励美国科学家，特别是那些活跃在NSF下的科学家-赞助奖项，增加与中东大学的国际合作部分。 它将为参与研究生和本科生提供优秀的培训和宝贵的国际经验和观点，其中一些学生正在从事NSF项目。该研讨会还旨在促进该地区的科学合作和重要的知识桥梁，以及美国在中东的主要合作伙伴在个人、机构和国家层面的团体之间的合作。最后，希望这次讲习班将鼓励联网和合资企业。

0742767 NayfehDescription: This award is to support a "US-Jordan Workshop on nano-Structured Advanced Materials", to be held in Amman, Jordan in June 2008. The organizers are Dr. Munir Nayfeh, Department of Physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois and Dr. Laila Abuhassan, Department of Physics, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. Workshop participants will be drawn from countries in the region including Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey and from several institutes in the US. The workshop is to serve as a vehicle to identify active scientists and groups in the region, areas of current mutual interest, priorities and where U.S.-Middle East joint research projects may be initiated and the potential for support. Intellectual Merit: Materials, when in a regime at the transition between the solid bulk and the molecular state (that is at the nanoscale), often acquire enhanced or even novel properties such as better mechanical, electrical, optical, as well as chemical properties. Thus they may become lighter, stronger and cheaper to produce and use. Nanotechnology which deals with these states is an area in which both industrial and developing countries can participate at the cutting edge of development and as such is conducive for collaboration. The impetus of nanotechnology research is the elucidation of the nature of material in the transition regime, and also the exploitation of this nature for manufacturing better products at lower cost and with new functions allowing the improvement of the quality of life. Topics to be addressed will include: polymer, ceramic and semiconductor-based advanced nano-structured materials, synthesis, characterization and processing; applications of advanced materials in the chemical industry, biomedicine, energy, electronics and photonics, environment and agriculture.Broader Impacts: This workshop will stimulate US scientists especially those active under NSF-sponsored awards to add international collaborative components with universities in the Middle East. It will provide excellent training and valuable international experience and perspectives for participating graduate and undergraduate students some of whom are working on NSF projects. The workshop is also intended to stimulate scientific collaboration and important intellectual bridges in the region and between groups at individual as well as institutional and state levels from key U.S. partners in the Middle East. Finally, it is hoped that this workshop will encourage networking and joint ventures.