2012 MRS Fall Meeting Symposium on Bioinspired Directional Surfaces: From Nature to Engineered Textured Surfaces

该补助金为参加生物启发定向表面研讨会的参与者提供部分支持：从自然到工程纹理表面，将于2012年11月25日至30日在美国马萨诸塞州波士顿举行的2012年材料研究学会（MRS）秋季会议期间举行。本次研讨会将汇集来自工业，政府实验室和学术界的专家和研究人员，建立和扩展最先进的实验和理论方法，以合成和表征表现出单向表面特性的天然和合成表面。这种自然定向表面的例子包括壁虎、蜘蛛和蜥蜴脚上的纹理表面，这些表面允许动物爬上光滑的垂直墙壁。我们对自然定向表面的理解的进步可能会导致新的合成材料和涂层的开发，这些材料和涂层具有精确调整的物理化学性质，以传输水滴，控制吸水，提供定向粘附，并表现出定向摩擦。这种合成定向表面预计将在能源和生物医学领域的应用中具有巨大价值，如定向注射器，微处理器冷却，高效水电涡轮机和纳米级数字射流。研讨会将包括邀请和贡献的演讲和海报会议，为专家和年轻研究人员之间密集和富有成效的互动和讨论提供基础。化学，物理，材料科学和工程相关的定向和各向异性表面的合成和表征的跨学科主题将被提出，以激发新一代涂层和表面的实验和理论研究。研讨会将有助于确定智能表面合理设计的关键挑战和技术需求，将在社区中引发富有成效的讨论，并将吸引新一代科学家进入这一至关重要的材料研究领域。从这个NSF补助金的支持将用于支付会议费用的研究生和研究生谁否则将无法参加由于缺乏资金。研讨会组织者将特别促进那些在科学和工程领域代表性不足的学生群体的参与。

This grant provides partial support for participants at the Symposium on Bioinspired Directional Surfaces: From Nature to Engineered Textured Surfaces, to be held during 2012 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting on November 25-30, 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. This symposium will bring together experts and researchers from industry, government labs, and academia to establish and extend state-of-the-art experimental and theoretical approaches to the synthesis and characterization of natural and synthetic surfaces that demonstrate unidirectional surface properties. Examples of such natural directional surfaces include textured surfaces on gecko, spider and lizard feet that allow the animals to climb smooth vertical walls. Advancement in our understanding of natural directional surfaces could lead to the development of new synthetic materials and coatings with precisely tuned physicochemical properties to transport water droplets, control imbibition, provide directional adhesion, and exhibit directional friction. Such synthetic directional surfaces are expected to be of great value to the energy and biomedical fields for applications such as directional syringes, microprocessor cooling, high-efficiency hydropower turbines, and nanoscale digital fluidics.The symposium will include invited and contributed talks and a poster session providing ground for intensive and fruitful interactions and discussions among experts and young researchers. Interdisciplinary topics in chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering related to the synthesis and characterization of directional and anisotropic surfaces will be presented to inspire experimental and theoretical research on new generations of coatings and surfaces. The symposium will help to identify the key challenges and technological needs for the rational design of smart surfaces, will spark fruitful discussions in the community, and will attract a new generation of scientists to this critically important field of materials research. Support from this NSF grant will be used to defray conference expenses for graduate and postgraduate students who otherwise would be unable to attend due to a lack of funds. The symposium organizers will specifically promote the participation of students who are members of groups underrepresented in science and engineering.