TSU-Fisk – Illinois-MRSEC PREM: Ferro-, Magneto-, and Opto-electronic Nanostructures and Devices

该奖项全部或部分由《2021年美国救援计划法案》（公法117-2）资助。非技术描述：田纳西州立大学（TSU）是一所综合性大学，历史上的黑人大学，位于田纳西州的纳什维尔，成立于1912年。学生人数超过7500人，其中大多数学生是非裔美国人。菲斯克大学成立于1866年，是纳什维尔最古老的高等教育机构；它也是一所历史悠久的黑人大学，也是TSU的长期研究和教育合作伙伴。伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校（UIUC）是一所大型公共赠地大学，博士学位排名全国第13位，拥有29个排名前十的工程学位课程，包括排名第二的本科材料科学与工程专业，以及排名第一的凝聚态物理研究生课程。TSU-Fisk-Illinois (TSUFI) PREM的愿景是与UIUC的伊利诺伊州材料研究科学与工程中心（I-MRSEC）建立长期的合作研究和教育伙伴关系，该中心拥有研究基础设施和教育资源，通过与TSU和Fisk的合作，可以显着提高少数民族学生的招聘，保留和学位获得。TSUFI学生正在发展跨学科合作和技能，以解决材料科学领域的前沿挑战，特别是与开发新的柔性传感器技术相关的挑战。TSUFI通过在教育、职业准备和跨机构指导的支持框架内创造战略研究机会和交流来解决PREM途径，这将1)增加少数民族本科生获得先进材料设施和培训的机会；2)建立招聘渠道，增加托大、菲斯克和UIUC的材料相关研究生项目的urm入学率，最终增加少数民族科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）毕业生的数量，为工业、政府和学术界的材料科学职业做好准备。技术细节：tsfi PREM研究合作结合了TSU和Fisk在铁电聚合物材料合成和感官制造领域的优势，以及I-MRSEC在高度可变形纳米材料和磁性之间的活性界面方面的专业知识。跨学科团队独特地专注于将可变形、广泛自适应、高功能的铁、磁和光电材料与低维二维材料相结合，以实现具有增强传感功能的新型柔性器件。研究小组已经确定了两个主要的发展方向：1)低维（纳米纤维和薄膜）聚合物材料的合成和表征，以及2)二维材料异质结构的生产和建模。基础研究和技术努力的结合将产生不同于单个成分的新兴机械、电子和化学行为。异构界面的研究和工程为探索1D、2D和3D混合系统和架构的新体制提供了机会。预期的发现会导致我们对可变形界面科学的理解取得突破，从而为技术创造新的途径。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Tennessee State University (TSU) is a comprehensive, land-grant historically black university located in Nashville, Tennessee, that was founded in 1912. The student enrollment exceeds 7,500 students, where most of the students are African American. Fisk University, founded in 1866, is the oldest institution of higher education in Nashville; it is also a historically black university and a long-time research and education partner of TSU. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a large public land-grant institution that ranks 13th nationally for earned doctorates, and is home to 29 top-ten ranked engineering degree programs, including the number two ranked undergraduate Materials Science and Engineering program, and the number-one ranked condensed matter physics graduate program. The TSU-Fisk-Illinois (TSUFI) PREM vision is to foster a long-term, collaborative research and education partnership with the Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (I-MRSEC) at UIUC, which has the research infrastructure and educational resources to significantly enhance recruitment, retention, and degree attainment of minority students through collaboration with TSU and Fisk. TSUFI students are developing cross-disciplinary collaborations and skills to address cutting-edge challenges in materials science, particularly related to developing new flexible sensor technology. TSUFI is addressing the PREM pathway by creating strategic research opportunities and exchanges, structured within a supportive framework of education, career preparation, and cross-institutional mentoring, that will 1) increase access of advanced materials facilities and training to underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduates; and 2) build recruitment pathways to increase the enrollment of URMs in materials-related graduate programs at TSU, Fisk, and UIUC, ultimately increasing the number of minority science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) graduates prepared for materials science careers in industry, government, and academia. TECHNICAL DETAILS: The TSUFI PREM research collaboration combines the strengths of TSU and Fisk in the areas of ferroelectric polymeric materials synthesis and sensory fabrication with the I-MRSEC expertise on active interfaces between highly deformable nanomaterials and magnetism. The interdisciplinary teams are uniquely focused on the combination of deformable, widely adaptive, highly functional ferro-, magneto- and optoelectronic materials in low dimensions interfaced with 2D materials to enable new flexible devices with enhanced sensing functionalities. The teams have identified two major thrust areas: 1) Low-dimensional (nanofibers and films) polymeric materials synthesis and characterization, and 2) Production and modeling of heterostructures with 2D materials. The combined fundamental research and technology efforts stands to produce emergent mechanical, electronic, and chemical behavior distinct from the individual constituents. The heterogeneous interface research and engineering are opening opportunities to explore a new regime of 1D, 2D, and 3D hybrid systems and architectures. Anticipated are findings that lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of deformable interfacial science which create new avenues for technology.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.