2019 GRC Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems: Exploiting the Functionality of Soft Materials

非技术和技术摘要：该奖项为2019年GRC/GRS会议的与会者提供部分支持，会议主题为2019年GRC/GRS会议：探索软材料的功能，会议将于1月26日至27日(GRS)和1月27日至2月1日(GRC)在加利福尼亚州文图拉举行。GRC的目的是鼓励软材料社区讨论来自自然的想法(发生在自然中的材料)，以及可用于为软机器人、传感器、智能材料和自适应表面等广泛应用设计新材料的最先进的软材料科学和技术。这些讨论旨在探索材料科学和工程(软物质、生物材料、生物物理学、化学工程)以及理论和计算模型等领域的变革性概念。GRC的总体目标是解决外来和复杂材料实际应用的障碍，包括考虑和采用许多生物系统中明显的受自然启发的自组装过程。GRC专题技术会议将涵盖以下领域：结构化流体构建；自组装复合材料；细胞机器；驯服活性物质；结构化表面；响应性材料；仿生学：利用进化；以及软机器。由研究生和博士后组织的GRS将在GRC的前一个周末举行，届时研究生和博士后将发表基于选定提交的摘要的演讲。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

NON-TECHNICAL AND TECHNICAL ABSTRACT: This award provides partial support for participants to the 2019 GRC/GRS conference on "Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems: Exploiting the Functionality of Soft Materials", to be held January 26-27 (GRS) and January 27-February 1st (GRC) in Ventura, CA. The aim of the GRC is to stimulate the soft-materials community to discuss ideas from nature (materials occurring in nature), and state-of the-art soft-materials science and technologies that can be used to design new materials for a broad range of applications such as soft robotics, sensors, smart materials, and adaptive surfaces. These discussions are intended to lead to the exploration of transformative concepts in a range of fields encompassing materials science and engineering (soft matter, biomaterials, biophysics, chemical engineering), as well as theoretical and computational modeling. An overall intended hallmark of this GRC is to address the barriers to practical applications of exotic and complex materials, including consideration and adoption of nature-inspired self-assembly processes apparent in many biological systems. The themed GRC technical sessions will cover the following areas: Building with structured fluids; Self-assembling complex materials; The cellular machine; Taming active matter; Structured surfaces; Responsive materials; Biomimetics: exploiting evolution; and Soft machines. The GRS organized by graduate students and postdocs will be held the weekend prior to the GRC when talks based on selected submitted abstracts will be delivered by the graduate students and postdocs.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.