REU Site: Future Leaders in Advanced Materials at the UCSB Materials Research Laboratory

非技术总结：加州大学圣巴巴拉分校（UCSB）材料研究实验室（MRL）是美国国家科学基金会材料研究科学与工程中心（MRSEC），为来自全国各地大学的本科生提供跨学科材料科学的培养研究经验，本科研究机会有限。每年将有8名本科生在UCSB MRL完成为期10周的暑期实习，在那里他们将与MRSEC项目资助的其他学生一起实习。所有这些学生将在UCSB教师的实验室进行研究，并参加一系列研讨会和座谈会，旨在建立科学意识，为研究生培训和材料科学与工程的职业生涯做好准备。该项目的一个国际组成部分是每年夏天再派两名学生到瑞典哥德堡，在查尔姆斯理工学院（Chalmers Institute of Technology）进行为期10周的暑期研究实习。技术简介:在UCSB学院的实验室中，REU参与者可以进行的研究项目涵盖了广泛的材料科学主题，包括在磁响应电容检测中有潜力的磁介质材料、在电子和催化中应用的分层有序金属和金属氧化物薄膜、用于热电学的有机半导体、在储能和化学传感中有潜力应用的光致变色响应材料的设计。高温合金喷气发动机涡轮叶片故障的超声检测、有机光电领域富勒烯功能化、分子成像领域纳米分辨率自旋成像、热电领域导电聚合物等。Chalmers的参与者将有机会参与沿着纳米颗粒密度梯度测量细胞粘附力和开发用于能源应用的软材料的研究。

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: The University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) Materials Research Laboratory (MRL), an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), provides a nurturing research experience in interdisciplinary materials science to a diverse group of undergraduate students from colleges and universities across the country where undergraduate research opportunities are limited. Eight undergraduates per year will complete 10-week summer internships at the UCSB MRL, where they will join additional students funded by the MRSEC program. All of these students will conduct research in the laboratories of UCSB faculty and participate in a series of workshops and colloquia intended to build scientific awareness and preparedness for graduate training and a career in materials science and engineering. An international component of the program will send an additional two students each summer to Gothenburg, Sweden for 10-week summer research internships at the Chalmers Institute of Technology.TECHNICAL SUMMARY: Available research projects for REU participants in the laboratories of UCSB faculty cover a wide range of materials science topics including magnetodielectric materials with potential for use in capacitive detection of magnetic response, hierarchically-ordered metal and metal oxide thin films with applications in electronics and catalysis, organic semiconductors for thermoelectrics, design of photochromic responsive materials with potential applications in energy storage and chemical sensing, ultrasonic detection of failure in superalloy jet engine turbine blades, functionalization of fullerenes for organic photoelectrics, imaging of spins with nanoscale resolution with potential applications in molecular imaging, and conductive polymers for thermoelectrics. Participants at Chalmers will have opportunities to participate in research on measurement of cellular adhesion forces along a nanoparticle density gradient and development of soft materials for energy applications.