Planning Grant: I/UCRC for The Center for Macromolecular Topology (CMT)

1134832辛辛那提大学、1134788密歇根大学格雷戈里·比切奇、罗纳德·拉尔森、辛辛那提大学和密歇根大学正在合作建立拟议的中心，辛辛那提大学是牵头机构。这是辛辛那提大学和密歇根大学提出的一项计划拨款申请，旨在探索大分子拓扑学中潜在的I/UCRC。申请资金是为了在辛辛那提与潜在的工业赞助商举行为期两天的规划会议。拟议中的大分子拓扑中心(CMT)将满足聚合物工业对复杂的大分子结构进行综合控制、表征、建模和模拟以操纵机械和流变性的需求。CMT将发展化学工业的人力资源。该中心将显著加强国家研究基础设施基础设施，并计划协调基于互联网的关于复杂大分子体系的流变学、分散、合成和建模的视频课程，这些课程将根据与大学的安排向工业界和学术界参与者以及普通公众提供。CMT将积极招收女性和少数族裔研究生和本科生。该中心的主要目标是提高工程技术人员的智力能力和控制分子拓扑的能力。分子拓扑控制的改进将直接导致从凝胶到轮胎的各种消费品和工业产品的改进，从塑料包装到油的增粘。

Planning Grant for an I/UCRC for Macromolecular Topology 1134832 University of Cincinnati; Gregory Beaucage 1134788 University of Michigan; Ronald Larson The University of Cincinnati and the University of Michigan are collaborating to establish the proposed center, with the University of Cincinnati as the lead institution. This is a planning grant request from the University of Cincinnati and the University of Michigan to explore a potential I/UCRC in macromolecular topology. Funds are requested for a two-day planning meeting with potential industrial sponsors in Cincinnati. The proposed Center for Macromolecular Topology (CMT) will address a need in the polymer industry to synthetically control, characterize, model and simulate complex macromolecular architectures to manipulate mechanical and rheological properties. The CMT will develop human capacity in the chemical industry. The center will significantly enhance the nations research infrastructure base, and plans to coordinate internet based video courses on rheology, scattering, synthesis and modeling of complex macromolecular systems that will be available to industrial as well as academic participants and the general public on arrangement with the Universities. CMT will actively recruit women and minority graduate and undergraduate students. The center has as a main goal enhancement of the intellectual capacity of the engineering workforce and capabilities in controlling molecular topology. Improvement in the control of molecular topology will lead directly to improvements in a wide range of consumer and industrial products from gels to tires; from plastic packaging to viscosity enhancement in oils.