PFI: A Multinational Partnership to Incite Innovation via New Generation Tailored Polymers for Interfaces

这一创新伙伴关系项目是南密西西比大学(USM)和琼斯县专上学院(JCJC)之间的第三类(A：C)合作项目，前者是国家科学基金会创新伙伴关系毕业生(0227827)，后者是创新伙伴关系项目的新成员(定义为从未获得创新伙伴关系资助的院校)--侧重于创造新聚合物的过程，这样做是一个机会，可以提高人们对高通量实验进入工业化学主流的认识和接受度。此外，学生还将接触到在国际上使用这种技术的一系列公司。该提案选择了一个特定的关注点，即聚合物/表面相互作用对消费品中活性成分的传递和控制非常重要，这些消费品可以承受功能调谐特种聚合物的高成本。如果成功，拟议的活动将引入新的概念和工具，从而加快发现的速度。这个庞大的多学科团队的成员共同为这一重大努力带来了大量资源，他们处于各自领域的前沿，由此产生的合作将产生应该促进科学理解并增加商业智能的结果。该项目旨在解决发现、创新和商业化方面的瓶颈。拟议的团队将与世界领先的公司合作，这些公司将实施该项目的成功。通过推进高通量实验，将加快发现的路线，并通过与大型跨国公司的联系，通过跨国公司的全球物流加快创业创新的商业化。拟议的活动将培养掌握概念、技能和新工具所需的高级劳动力。项目开始时的合作伙伴是学术机构：南密西西比大学(牵头机构)、琼斯乡村专科学校、路易斯安那理工大学、花瓣高中、州社区和专科学校委员会和密西西比大学；私营部门组织：Ablitec Technologies；陶氏化学amerchol部门；BASF；Business Launchpoint；Chemfast Technologies USA和瑞士、DSM营养产品-美国、荷兰和瑞士；Glactech；Glaxo Smith Kline；Hub City Technologies；混合塑料公司；强生公司；MBM技术公司；密西西比电力公司；Scigensis；宝洁公司；Trechem；以及地方政府组织：地区发展伙伴关系、密西西比发展局和密西西比技术联盟。

This Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) project--a Type III (A:C) partnership between University of Southern Mississippi (USM) an NSF PFI graduated grantee (0227827), and Jones County Junior College (JCJC) (Laurel, MS), an institution new to the PFI Program (defined as one that has never been a PFI grantee)--focuses on the processes for creating new polymers and in doing so represents an opportunity to raise awareness and acceptance of high-throughput experimentation into the mainstream of industrial chemistry. In addition students will be exposed to the range of companies that use such techniques internationally. The proposal selects a specific focus; namely, polymeric/surface interactions important for delivery and control of active ingredients in consumer products that can bear the high cost of functionally tuned specialty polymers. If successful, the proposed activity will introduce new concepts and tools that will accelerate the rate of discovery. The members of this large multidisciplinary team, which collectively brings substantial resources to this major effort, are at the frontiers of their respective areas and the resulting collaboration will yield results that should advance scientific understanding as well as increase commercial intelligence.The project is aimed directly at bottlenecks in discovery, innovation and commercialization. The proposed team will be partnered with world-leading companies which will implement the successes of the project. By advancing high throughput experimentation, the route to discovery will be accelerated and by linking with large multinational companies, commercialization of entrepreneurial innovations will be sped to market by the global logistics of the multinational corporations. The proposed activity will prepare the advanced workforce that will be necessary to master the concepts, the skills, and the new tools. The attention that the proposers have paid to the education and development of that workforce should yield rich dividends, and the lessons learned will be publicized broadly and are likely to be relevant to other industries and other ventures.Partners at the inception of the project are Academic Institutions: University of Southern Mississippi (lead institution), Jones Country Junior College, Louisiana Tech University, Petal High School, State Board of Community and Junior Colleges, and University of Mississippi; Private Sector Organizations: Ablitec Technologies; Amerchol Division of Dow Chemical; BASF; Business Launchpoint; Chemspeed Technologies USA and Switzerland, DSM Nutritional Products-USA, Holland, and Switzerland; Glactech; Glaxo Smith Kline; Hub City Technologies; Hybrid Plastics; Johnson and Johnson; MBM Tech; Mississippi Power; Scigenesis; The Procter & Gamble Company; and Trechem; and Local Government Organizations: Areas Development Partnership, Mississippi Development Authority, and Mississippi Technology Alliance.