S10MM Evaporative Self-Assembly of Polymers, Nanoparticles, and DNA

本提案请求资金支持将于2010年4月5日至9日在加州旧金山举行的材料研究学会会议上召开的关于聚合物、纳米颗粒和DNA蒸发自组装的研讨会。研讨会将重点关注：(a)利用受控蒸发自组装来指导聚合物、微粒、纳米颗粒和DNA在大范围内的自组织组装的排列、大小、形状和周期性的策略；(b)由此产生的组装的技术应用；(c)在蒸发过程中相关的质量和热传递以及流体流动的建模。该研讨会是该领域和支持科学家的首要基础和应用多学科研究论坛。来自世界各地的学术界和工业界的领先科学家与年轻的教师、博士后和学生聚集在一起，进行为期三天的口头报告和海报，讨论最先进的策略和蒸发自组装模型。知识价值：研讨会将成为一个论坛，在纳米科学和纳米技术快速发展的领域进行演讲和交流前沿思想。本次研讨会的16位特邀演讲人都是世界上最杰出的学者和研究人员。除了将该学科的许多知名知识领袖聚集在一起，集思广益，展望未来之外，来自多个相关学科的实践工程师、年轻教师、博士后和学生也非常积极地参与其中。他们不仅将了解最新的研究进展，而且还将为方法的范式变化做出贡献，这是支撑和实现未来所必需的。研讨会将从实验、理论和计算机模拟的角度，着重探讨微粒和多相过程的机制和现象，包括微纳米结构流体、涉及微粒的纳米结构的自定向组装。研讨会的一个重要方面是多相流现象（粒子/液滴动力学）和粒子自定向组装成功能材料和器件领域的演讲者和海报演讲者的大量代表，这是NSF颗粒和多相过程项目当前的研究重点领域。研讨会将有助于提高对微粒和多相过程的基本理解、可预测性和控制，特别强调纳米技术、复杂工程系统和新型制造技术的新领域。更广泛的影响：该基金将为受邀演讲者、年轻教师、博士后和研究生提供旅行和注册支持，他们将从研讨会提供的网络经验中明显受益。已经并将继续作出重大努力，加强妇女和少数民族参与这次专题讨论会。25%的受邀演讲者是女性，我们将努力提高女性新教师和研究生演讲者的比例。我们的目标是确定这一研究领域的妇女和少数民族研究实验室，并将通过电子邮件和电话的贡献讲座积极征求他们的参与。从NSF申请的资金将部分用于提供5个旅行奖励，每个奖励500美元，以支持研究生、博士后或年轻教师参加研讨会。将优先考虑第一次参加全国会议的女性研究生和博士后，将做口头报告的年轻教师，以及来自未被充分代表的少数民族的学生。

0966408DeVincentThis proposal requests funding to support the Symposium MM on Evaporative Self Assembly of Polymers, Nanoparticles, and DNA to be held at the Materials Research Society meeting April 5-9, 2010 in San Francisco, CA. The symposium will focus on: (a) strategies of using controlled evaporative self-assembly to direct the alignment, size, shape, and periodicity of self-organized assemblies of polymers, microparticles, nanoparticles, and DNA over a large area, (b) technological applications of the resulting assemblies, and (c) modeling of the related mass and heat transport, and fluid flow during the evaporation process. The symposium is the premier fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research forum for this field and supporting scientists. Attending from all over of the world, leading scientists from academics and industries gather with young faculty, postdocs, and students for three days of oral presentations and posters on state of the art strategies and modeling of evaporative self assembly.Intellectual Merit:The Symposium will serve as a forum for presentations and exchange of cutting edge ideas in a rapidly growing area of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The sixteen invited speakers chosen for the Symposium MM at the MRS meeting are amongst the most eminent scholars and researchers in the world. Besides bringing many of the established intellectual leaders of the subject together to brainstorm the future, there is also a very strong involvement of practicing engineers and young faculty, postdocs, and students from multiple related disciplines. They will not only learn of the latest research advances but will also contribute to the paradigm changes in the approaches, which are necessary for underpinning and enabling the future. The symposium will emphasize the mechanisms and phenomena governing particulate and multiphase processes, including micro- and nano-structured fluids, self and directed assembly of nanostructures involving particulates from the viewpoints of experiment, theory, and computer simulation. An important aspect of the symposium is the heavy representation by speakers and poster presenters in the field of multiphase flow phenomena (particle/droplet dynamics), and self and directed assembly of particles into functional materials and devices, which are the current research focus areas of NSF Particulate and Multiphase Processes program. The symposium will contribute to improving the basic understanding, predictability, and control of particulate and multiphase processes with particular emphasis on new frontiers in nanotechnology, complex engineering systems, and novel manufacturing techniques.Broader Impact:The grant will provide travel and registration support for invited speakers, as well as young faculty, postdocs and graduate students who will markedly benefit from the networking experience which the symposium provides. Significant efforts have been made and will continue be made to enhance the involvement of women and minorities in this symposium. 25 percent of the invited speakers are women and we will seek to increase the percentage of female new faculty and graduate student presenters. We aim to identify women and minority research laboratories in this research field and will actively solicit their involvement through contributed talks by emails and phone calls. Funds requested from NSF will partially be used to provide 5 travel awards with $500 each to support graduate students, postdocs or young faculty to attend the symposium. Priority will be given to graduate students and postdocs who are female and attend their first national meeting, young faculty who will give oral presentations, and those from underrepresented ethnic minorities.