JSU-UCSB Partnership For Research and Education in Materials Science

非技术性总结：杰克逊州立大学（JSU）与加州大学圣巴巴拉（UCSB）材料研究科学与工程中心（MRSEC）的材料研究和教育合作伙伴关系（PREM）项目将为代表性不足的少数民族（URM）参与者提供机会，通过JSU-UCSB PREM在新兴研究领域进行创新研究和教育，成为下一代材料科学家。非裔美国人占密西西比少数民族人口的98%，占其公民的37%，使其成为全国这一少数民族人均集中度最高的地区。合作伙伴关系将带来独特的资源，通过开创性的研究和材料科学教育来解决国家和全球优先考虑的科学问题。JSU-UCSB PREM将建立一个多机构，跨学科的研究团队，通过创造创新材料和使用基于智能纳米材料的技术来解决日常生活问题。该合作伙伴关系将为来自JSU和其他当地密西西比大学，社区学院和K-12学校的少数参与者提供机会，以获得全面的STEM教育，其组成部分包括从UCSB或JSU的材料研究经验到正式和非正式课程，与世界知名科学家和纳米展览的会议。目前PREM项目的一个预期的深远和持久的影响是它对培训和指导非洲裔美国学生在具有良好的长期就业前景的研究领域的影响。技术摘要：研究将集中在新材料的开发和应用。JSU-UCSB PREM将通过汇集JSU和UCSB的一群跨学科教师，为合作材料科学项目中代表性不足的研究生和本科生提供智力刺激的研究和教育经验。拟议的伙伴关系将通过理论-实验结合的新材料研究和开发，创造认知模型，促进技术和智能技术，促进创新，解决社会和环境问题。具体而言，重点将放在三个研究子项目上，其特点是尖端的世界级研究和高度合作的研究环境：1）具有上级机械强度和韧性的生物启发3D纳米复合材料，2）空气稳定的全无机钙钛矿基光电材料和3）过渡金属二硫属化物（TMD）基混合维异质结构材料。研究小组将由JSU和UCSB的教职员工组成，他们与学生和博士后同事一起组成一个高度凝聚力的研究人员团队，能够调查基本的科学问题和途径，以实现只有在协作，多学科模式下才能正确探索的重大技术目标。该合作伙伴关系将使JSU发展成为先进的2D和3D材料研究的卓越中心，同时显著影响UCSB的多样性和教育及推广活动。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

Non-technical Summary:The Jackson State University (JSU) Partnership in Research and Education for Materials (PREM) project with the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), will provide opportunities for underrepresented minority (URM) participants to become next generation materials scientists through innovative research and education in emerging research areas via JSU-UCSB PREM. African-Americans represent 98 percent of the minority population in Mississippi and 37 percent of its citizens, giving it the highest concentration per capita of this minority group in the nation. Partnership will bring unique resources to address scientific issues of national and global priority through pioneering research and education in materials science. The JSU-UCSB PREM will develop a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary research team to solve daily life problems by creating innovative materials and using smart nanomaterials-based technology. The partnership will provide minority participants from JSU and other local Mississippi universities, community colleges, and K-12 schools the opportunity to acquire a comprehensive STEM education with components ranging from materials research experiences at UCSB or JSU to formal and informal lessons, conferences with world renowned scientists and nano-exhibitions. An anticipated far-reaching and lasting effect of the current PREM project is its impact on training and mentoring African American students in areas of research that have excellent long-term job prospects.Technical Summary:The research will focus on the development and application of new materials. JSU-UCSB PREM will provide intellectually stimulating research and educational experiences for underrepresented graduate and undergraduate students in the collaborative materials science projects by bringing together a group of interdisciplinary faculty members from JSU and UCSB. The proposed partnership will foster innovation by creating cognitive models, facilitation techniques and smart technologies through theory-experiment-coupled research and development of new materials, addressing societal and environmental concerns. Specifically, the focus will be on three research subprojects, characterized by cutting-edge world class research and a highly collaborative research environment: 1) Bio-inspired 3D Nanocomposites with Superior Mechanical Strength and Toughness, 2) Air Stable All-Inorganic Perovskites Based Optoelectronic Materials and 3) Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) Based Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructures Materials. Research groups will be composed of JSU and UCSB faculty members who, with their students and postdoctoral associates, form a highly cohesive team of researchers able to investigate fundamental scientific questions and pathways to reach significant technological goals that can only be properly explored in a collaborative, multidisciplinary mode. The partnership will allow the development of JSU as a center of excellence in advanced 2D and 3D materials research while significantly impacting the diversity and educational and outreach activities at UCSB.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.