CEMRI: Multifunctional Nanoscale Material Structures

西北大学CEMRI*的主题是多功能纳米材料结构。该中心的主要重点是培养有远见和具有全球竞争力的美国材料研究人员，以显著影响美国经济并解决全球挑战，在公共和私营部门的国家和国际合作伙伴之间的合作和健康竞争氛围中进行创新，并整合研究，教育，知识/技术转移和网络方面的努力。该中心管理和维护西北大学和外部研究人员使用的共享实验设施，促进与国家实验室（特别是与附近的阿贡国家实验室），其他大学，行业（包括mrsec发起的初创公司和大公司）以及其他机构（包括芝加哥艺术学院）的互动。并开发创新的教育项目，包括由mrsec赞助的艺术教育跨学科推广计划（ETOPiA）主办的以科学为主题的表演。该中心的研究目标包括了解复杂纳米材料系统的基本原理和行为，将研究成果转化为新功能器件和系统的开发，从而产生新技术和新产业，并与国内和国际合作伙伴开展密切合作，以提高研究能力和基础设施。研究人员被组织成跨学科研究小组（IRGs），研究：“控制混合界面的电荷和能量通量”，“非晶氧化物半导体的基础”和“用于放大传感和信息操纵的等离子体编码材料”，以及种子计划。研究策略是通过纳米结构材料中的电荷、光子、等离子体激子和激子的相互作用来研究新现象，包括模型材料中的离散和集体效应，使用理论、模拟、建模和详细测量。对基础科学的理解将为设计新的和扩展的功能纳米结构提供基础，这些纳米结构具有在传感和通信、能源和环境用途方面的潜在应用。该中心的教育目标是根据中心的研究，为大学预科科学、技术、工程、数学（STEM）课堂开发和传播教学材料，为研究生和本科生提供发展创新和创业技能的机会，与国际合作伙伴和项目合作，使美国学生具备全球领导能力和全球研究视角。并在从中学到研究生院的垂直整合STEM学习和教学方面发挥国家领导作用，以提高质量并降低教育成本。该中心在为STEM教室开发材料世界模块方面有着悠久的历史，并在教师研究经验（RET）和本科生研究经验（REU）项目中为教师和本科生提供暑期研究培训。与西北大学国际材料研究所和工业合作伙伴的合作为本科生和研究生参与创新和创业研究活动提供了开发国际项目和机会的新机会。*a NSF材料研究科学与工程中心（MRSEC）

The theme of the Northwestern University CEMRI* is Multifunctional Nanoscale Materials Structures. The main emphasis of the Center is to train visionary and globally competitive U.S. materials researchers to significantly impact the U.S. economy and solve global challenges, to innovate in an atmosphere of cooperation and healthy competition among national and international partners in both public and private sectors, and to integrate efforts in research, education, knowledge/technology transfer and networking. The Center manages and maintains shared experimental facilities accessed by both Northwestern and external researchers, fosters interactions with National Labs (especially with nearby Argonne National Lab), other universities, industry (including both MRSEC-initiated start-up companies and large corporations) as well as other institutions (including The Art Institute of Chicago), and develops innovative educational programs including the science-themed performances hosted by the MRSEC-sponsored Educational Transdisciplinary Outreach Program in the Arts (ETOPiA). The research goals of the center consist of understanding the fundamental principles and behaviors of complex nanomaterials systems, transferring results into the development of new functional devices and systems leading to new technologies and industries, and initiating close cooperation among national and international partners to improve research capabilities and infrastructure. Researchers are organized into Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs) investigating: "Controlling Fluxes of Charge and Energy at Hybrid Interfaces", "Fundamentals of Amorphous Oxide Semiconductors" and "Plasmonically-Encoded Materials for Amplified Sensing and Information Manipulation", as well as seed programs. The research strategy is to investigate novel phenomena through the interactions of charges, photons, plasmons and excitons in nanostructured materials, including discrete and collective effects in model materials using theory, simulation, modeling and detailed measurements. An understanding of the underlying science will provide a basis for the design of new and extended classes of functional nanostructures for potential applications in sensing and communication, energy and environmental uses. The educational goals of the Center are to develop and disseminate instructional materials for pre-college Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) classrooms based on Center research, to offer opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students to develop skills in innovation and entrepreneurship, to work with international partners and programs to equip U.S. students with global leadership capabilities and a global research perspective, and to provide national leadership in vertically-integrated STEM learning and teaching from middle-school to graduate school in order to improve quality and reduce the cost of education. The Center has a long history of developing Materials World Modules for implementation into STEM classrooms and providing summer research training for teachers and undergraduates in Research Experience for Teachers (RET) and Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs. Partnerships with the International Materials Institute at Northwestern and with industrial partners are providing new opportunities to develop international programs and opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to participate in innovation and entrepreneurship-based research activities.*a NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)