REU Site: Surface and Thin Film Science and Engineering

技术概述：在美国国家科学基金会材料研究部的支持下，拟建的REU基地：弗吉尼亚大学表面和薄膜科学与工程，将通过下一代科学家和工程师的专业、社会和认知发展，加强国家的科学和工程劳动力。本科生在大学的最初几年进行动手研究的机会将激发他们对科学和工程的兴趣，并鼓励他们考虑在这些领域获得更高的学位和职业。因此，该项目的目标之一是招募女性、少数族裔和残疾人参加暑期研究体验。选择表面和薄膜科学与工程的技术重点代表了大学的优势。该主题本质上是多学科的，因此学生将接触到支持该领域的全部核心学科。许多技术依赖于控制表面和薄膜的性质，包括非均相催化、纳米电子学、太阳能电池、腐蚀保护和细胞表面的免疫反应。任何种类的材料，金属、陶瓷或聚合物（或每种材料的杂化复合材料）都可以制成薄膜形式。在工艺上也有类似的多样性：薄膜可以通过蒸发或溅射等真空工艺沉积，可以通过化学气相沉积，可以通过氧化和氮化等表面反应沉积，也可以通过溶液和熔体沉积。REU的学生将与他们的教师导师一起，在为期八周的课程中分离出他们可以合理期望解决的离散研究问题。然后，学生们将回顾相关文献，设计实验，分析数据，得出结论，生成书面报告，并在课程结束时向全体学生展示他们的工作。非技术总结：在美国国家科学基金会材料研究部的支持下，弗吉尼亚大学REU网站：表面和薄膜科学与工程将带11名本科生到弗吉尼亚大学（UVa）进行为期8周的积极指导的暑期研究体验。该计划旨在促进REU学生的专业，社会和认知发展，鼓励他们考虑科学和工程的职业和研究生学习，并帮助创造一个更多样化的劳动力和教授。入选该计划的项目反映了弗吉尼亚大学的优势领域，并解决了实质性的科学和工程研究问题。在REU项目中产生的见解将对飞机、腐蚀、电子、催化和纳米材料的研究产生影响。表面和薄膜科学与工程本质上是多学科的，因此学生将接触到支持该领域的全方位核心学科。重大的科学进步需要合作，这是21世纪研究范式的一个方面，对学生来说至关重要，通过在REU的实验室工作，学生将有这样的机会。

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:With support from the Division of Materials Research at the National Science Foundation, the proposed REU Site: Surface and Thin Film Science and Engineering at the University of Virginia, will strengthen the nation's science and engineering workforce through the professional, social, and cognitive development of the next generation of scientists and engineers. The opportunities for undergraduates to conduct hands-on research during their initial years at college will stimulate their interest in science and engineering and encourage them to consider advanced degrees and careers in these fields. Accordingly, one of the goals of the program is to recruit women, underrepresented minorities, and individuals with disabilities to participate in the summer research experience. The chosen technical focus on surface and thin film science and engineering represents a strength of the university. The topic is inherently multidisciplinary, hence students will be exposed to the full range of core disciplines that support the field. Many technologies hinge on controlling surface and thin film properties, including heterogeneous catalysis, nanoelectronics, solar cells, corrosion protection, and immunological responses at cell surfaces. Any class of materials, metals, ceramics or polymers (or hybrid composites of each) can be made in thin film form. There is similar diversity in processing: thin films can be deposited by vacuum processes such as evaporation or sputtering, by chemical vapor deposition, by surface reactions such as oxidation and nitridation, from solution, and from the melt. In concert with their faculty mentors, REU students will isolate discrete research problems that they can reasonably expect to address during the eight-week session. The students will then review the relevant literature, design experiments, analyze the data, draw conclusions, generate a written report, and present their work to a gathering of the cohort at the end of the session.NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY:With support from the Division of Materials Research at the National Science Foundation, the REU Site: Surface and Thin Film Science and Engineering, at the University of Viriginia will bring 11 undergraduates to the University of Virginia (UVa) for an 8-week, actively mentored, summer research experience. The program is designed to promote the professional, social, and cognitive development of the REU students, encourage them to consider careers and graduate study in science and engineering, and help create a more diverse workforce and professoriate. The projects chosen for inclusion in this program reflect areas of strength for the University of Virginia and address substantive science and engineering research questions. Insights generated during the REU program will have implications for aircraft, corrosion, electronics, catalysis, and nanomaterials research. Surface and thin film science and engineering is inherently multidisciplinary, hence students will be exposed to the full range of core disciplines that support the field. Significant scientific progress requires collaboration, an aspect of the twenty-first research paradigm that is essential for students to experience, and by working in the labs at this REU site, students will have this opportunity.