Travel Support to the 2009 Macromolecular Materials GRC and GRS; Ventura, CA; January 10-15, 2009

ID：MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623)0841011 PI：Pochan，Darrin ORG：DelawareUniversity标题：2009年高分子材料戈登研究会议(GRC)和研究生研究研讨会(GRS)学术价值：高分子材料戈登研究会议(GRC)和互补性研究生研究研讨会(GRS)的组织者将补充可用于旅行支持的资金，以加强专注于生物材料的博士后和高级研究生参与本次会议。虽然不完全致力于生物材料，但该计划的很大一部分与生物材料计划支持的领域直接相关。GRC的一个创新特色是为期两天的Gordon-Kenan研究生/博士后研究研讨会，该研讨会将先于GRC本身。这次活动将向新的调查人员介绍GRC的经验，并让他们有机会以初级调查人员通常无法获得的方式参与。申请资金的四分之一将用于支持约30名预计参加GRC的学生和博士后中的5人参加GRC。将特别强调使用国家科学基金会提供的资金来支持女性和少数族裔初级教职员工、学生和博士后，他们将向组委会申请这项支持。博达影响：更广泛的影响在于培养和发展明天？S在生物材料领域和相关跨学科领域的领导者，以及进行这项跨学科研究的科学队伍进一步多样化。为了保持聚合物西部GRC的传统，今年的S会议的项目主题涵盖了从生物材料合成到物理和工程的一系列重要和及时的主题，包括聚合物科学的工业趋势。这些纲领性主题包括聚合物薄膜的机械性能和图案化、用于DNA络合和细胞传输的聚电解质、用于生物材料的带电聚合物、复杂胶束组装、聚合物纳米颗粒和纳米技术，以及带电聚合物组装理论。

ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 0841011 PI: Pochan, Darrin ORG: University of DelawareTitle: 2009 Macromolecular Materials Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and Graduate Research Seminar (GRS)INTELLECTUAL MERIT: The organizers of the Macromolecular Materials Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and complementary Graduate Research Seminar (GRS) will supplement the available funds for travel support to enhance participation of biomaterials-focused post doctoral and senior graduate students at this meeting. Although not devoted entirely to biomaterials, a significant portion of the program is of direct relevance to the areas supported by the Biomaterials program. An innovative feature of this GRC will be a two-day Gordon-Kenan Graduate/Postdoc Research Seminar that will precede the GRC itself. This event will introduce new investigators to the GRC experience and give them a chance to participate in ways not normally available to beginning investigators. A quarter of the requested funds will be used to support attendance at the GRC by five of the approximately 30 students and postdocs expected to participate. Special emphasis will be placed on using the funds provided by NSF to support female and minority junior faculty, students, and postdocs, who will apply for this support to the organizing committee.BROADER IMPACTS: The broader impacts lie in the cultivation and development of tomorrow?s leaders in the biomaterials field and related interdisciplinary fields and to further diversity in the scientific workforce performing this interdisciplinary research. In keeping with the past tradition of the Polymers West GRC, the Programmatic Themes of this year?s conference cover a range of important and timely topics spanning the range from biomaterial synthesis to physics and engineering, including industrial trends in polymer science. These programmatic themes include polymer thin film mechanical properties and patterning, polyelectrolytes for DNA complexation and cellular delivery, charged polymers for biomaterials, complex micelle assembly, polymer nanoparticles and nanotechnology, and the theory of charged polymer assembly.