NYU MRSEC: Semantophoretic Assemblies

纽约大学（NYU）的材料研究科学与工程中心（MRSEC）将纽约大学的四个系、普林斯顿大学、纽约大学理工学院和来自重点机构的合作者联合起来，致力于研究胶体建筑的跨学科项目，将具有实验和理论凝聚态物理、胶体科学、合成化学、聚合物化学、固态化学和生物材料，开发创新材料的制造原理——从胶体到宏观尺度——基于胶体颗粒，这些胶体颗粒具有通过形状或化学相互作用指导组装的自包含信息。该中心开展了一项雄心勃勃的计划，旨在创造独特的K-12和高等教育活动，同时扩大在科学、技术、工程和数学领域代表性不足的群体的参与。这些努力包括屡获殊荣的“科学前沿计划”（Scientific Frontiers Program），该计划向纽约市的小学、初中、高中和社区引入与能力相匹配的课程内容，惠及大量少数族裔学生。该中心还支持REU的学生，将他们与现有的REU整合在一起，该REU是与纽约城市学院联合运营的，纽约城市学院是哈莱姆的一所少数族裔服务机构。这个暑期研究项目赞助了来自四年制大学的师生研究团队，并通过以纽约大学为中心的教师资源网络，以及众多为少数族裔服务的机构。中心还举办由著名科学作家主持的驻场科学作家研讨会，该研讨会向中心各级参与者以及MRSEC以外的社区开放。该中心的研究和教育工作得益于材料合成、表征和计算设施，这些设施由MRSEC教师、学生、博士后研究助理、工业合作伙伴和外展参与者共享。该中心运营着一个工业合作伙伴计划，拥有双重会员资格，旨在鼓励竞争前的合作研究以及更直接的研究。与纽约科学院联合举办的年度会议和专题讨论会加强了工业界的相互作用。通过学生和教师交流以及国际合作伙伴研讨会进行的国际合作大大扩大了MRSEC在纽约大学以外的影响。

The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at New York University (NYU) focused on Semantophoretic Assemblies (semantophoretic = carrying information) unites four NYU Departments, Princeton University, the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and collaborators from key institutions, in an interdisciplinary program that addresses Colloidal Architecture, merging investigators with expertise in experimental and theoretical condensed matter physics, colloid science, synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry, solid-state chemistry, and biomaterials to develop principles for the fabrication of innovative materials - from the colloidal to macroscopic scale - based on colloidal particles equipped with self-contained information that directs assembly, either through shape or chemical interactions. The Center operates an ambitious program aimed at creating unique K-12 and post-secondary education activities while broadening the participation of groups underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. These efforts include the award-winning Scientific Frontiers Program, which introduces competency-matched curriculum content to elementary, middle and high schools and communities in New York City, reaching substantial numbers of minority students. The Center also supports REU students, integrating them with an existing REU operated jointly with the City College of New York, a minority-serving institution in Harlem. The summer research program sponsors faculty-student research teams from four-year colleges, and through the NYU-centered Faculty Resource Network, numerous minority-serving institutions. The Center also hosts Science Writers-in-Residence workshops, led by prominent science writers, which are open to Center participants at all levels as well as the community beyond the MRSEC. The Center's research and education efforts benefit from materials synthesis, characterization and computational facilities, which are shared by MRSEC faculty, students, postdoctoral research associates, industrial partners and outreach participants. The Center operates an Industrial Partners Program with dual-level membership aimed at encouraging pre-competitive collaborative research as well as more directed research. Industrial interactions are reinforced by annual meetings as well as symposia operated in conjunction with the New York Academy of Sciences. International collaborations through student and faculty exchanges as well as International Partner Workshops significantly expand the impact of the MRSEC beyond NYU.