NSF Workshop: Frontiers in Polymer Science and Engineering

非技术性总结：“NSF研讨会：聚合物科学与工程前沿”项目将研究聚合物科学和聚合物材料领域前沿的研究和教育的杰出新机会。这类材料在直接影响美国经济、日常生活以及我们全体人民的健康和福利的无数商业项目中发挥着核心作用。该研讨会将吸引来自全国各地的约70名科学家，工程师和教育工作者，他们在大学，公司和国家实验室工作，并代表广泛的专业领域。一个中心目标是确定最有希望的机会和关键领域，以便今后投资于必要的研究，以保持国家在科学和技术方面的领导地位，而科学和技术是这一重要和多学科领域的基础。研讨会的参与者代表了来自全国各地的广泛不同的研究人员和教育工作者，他们将共同塑造未来研究和教育的愿景，该愿景将被纳入一份全面的报告中，并将广泛传播给更广泛的社区以及全国各地的决策者和管理者。技术摘要：本次研讨会将讨论一系列全面的主题，旨在确定跨聚合物科学和工程跨学科领域的令人兴奋和有前途的未来机会。这将是一个跨领域的十年型研究，跟进其前身，2007年NSF跨学科全球领先的聚合物科学与工程研讨会。 与先进的实验，理论和计算方法相关的最新发展将被检查，以确定最重要的挑战，机遇和与聚合物设计和合成，分子和结构表征，广泛的材料特性，加工以及大分子对技术和社会的影响相关的新兴领域的目标，包括跨越其他科学和技术领域的相关领域。为期两天的研讨会将开始，首先是一系列全体讲座，旨在帮助形成随后分组会议的详细讨论，每个小组都涉及来自不同领域的参与者。每次分组会议的集体意见，沿着对教育和相关机会的评估，将在讲习班结束后立即由组织委员会形成执行摘要草案。组织委员会将编写一份综合报告，详细说明讲习班的调查结果和结论。这份报告将广泛传播并在一个公共网站上公布。该报告的摘要，突出了最重要的发现，将提交出版在一个领先的聚合物杂志。

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY:The project "NSF Workshop: Frontiers in Polymer Science and Engineering" will examine outstanding new opportunities for research and education at the forefront of the field of polymer science and polymeric materials. This class of materials plays a central role in innumerable items of commerce that directly affect the US economy, the daily lives, and the health and welfare of our entire population. The workshop will draw together approximately 70 scientists, engineers, and educators from around the nation, working in universities, companies, and national laboratories, and representing a broad diversity of areas of expertise. A central goal is to identify the most promising opportunities and critical areas for future investment in the research necessary to sustain national leadership in the science and technology that underpins this vital and multidisciplinary field. Workshop participants, representing a broadly diverse group of researchers and educators from around the nation, will collectively shape a vision for future research and education that will be captured in a comprehensive report, to be widely disseminated to the broader community and to policy makers and administrators across the country. TECHNICAL SUMMARY:This workshop will address a comprehensive set of topics aimed at identifying exciting and promising future opportunities across the interdisciplinary field of polymer science and engineering. It will be a decadal-type study across the horizon of the field, following up on its predecessor, the 2007 NSF Workshop on Interdisciplinary Globally-Leading Polymer Science and Engineering. Latest developments associated with advancing state-of-the-art experimental, theoretical, and computational methods will be examined with the goal of identifying the most important challenges, opportunities, and emerging areas associated with polymer design and synthesis, molecular and structural characterization, a wide range of material properties, processing, and the impact of macromolecules on technology and society, including on related fields that span other areas of science and technology. The two-day workshop will begin with a set of plenary lectures designed to help shape detailed discussions in subsequent break-out sessions, each involving a group drawn from a diverse spectrum of participants. Collective inputs from each breakout session, along with accompanying assessments of educational and related opportunities, will be formed into a draft executive summary by the organizing committee immediately following the workshop. A comprehensive report will be prepared by the organizing committee detailing the findings and conclusions of the workshop. This report will be widely disseminated and posted on a public website. A summary of the report, highlighting the most important findings, will be submitted for publication in a leading polymer journal.