2022 Gordon Research Conference on Multifunctional Materials & Structures: Imparting Intelligence in and through Self-Learning Materials & Structures; Ventura, CA; 23-28 Jan 2022

该奖项将为将于2022年1月23日至28日在加利福尼亚州文图拉举行的2022年戈登多功能材料和结构研究会议：在自学材料和结构中传授智能提供资金支持。这次会议致力于解决与从分子尺度到结构尺度的分级多功能材料系统相关的基本科学问题，主要考虑智能和自学。多功能的潜在社会效益和影响包括：通过材料可持续性、回收和升级循环实现材料可持续性和能源资源管理；通过自适应和自我意识能力实现更安全的系统；通过减少质量和/或体积、能量回收和环境收获提高能源效率。会议将寻求演讲者、讨论领导者和与会者(包括年轻和成熟的科学家和工程师)、来自学术界、工业界和政府机构/团体的国内和国际代表以及性别和种族多样性的广泛平衡。通过该奖项的资助将增加研究生和博士后参与者的数量，以培养该领域的下一代科学领袖。在正在进行的关于多功能材料和结构的两年一次的系列会议中，这次会议的重点是智能和自学。研究人员将解决与设想、设计和创造具有智能和自学能力的合成多功能材料和结构相关的关键科学问题。他们将找出差距，并就将这些新功能整合到工程结构中提出潜在的解决方案，例如，如何优化接口以及设计和制造方法的不同角色。这次会议是由这一新兴领域的领先研究人员组织的，他们与世界各地从事多功能研究的科学家和工程师社区有着深厚的联系。会议成果预计将包括实现智能和自我学习的新概念和机制，以及新的合作和跨学科合作的方式。这一奖项反映了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。

This award will provide financial support to the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Multifunctional Materials and Structures: Imparting Intelligence in and Through Self-Learning Materials and Structures to be held in Ventura, California, 23-28 January 2022. This conference seeks to address fundamental scientific issues associated with hierarchical multifunctional material systems from the molecular scale to the structural scale, with principal considerations to intelligence and self-learning. The potential societal benefits and impact of multifunctionality are materials sustainability and energy resource management through material sustainability, recycling, and upcycling; safer systems through adaptive and self-aware capabilities, and improved energy efficiency through mass and/or volume reductions, energy recapture, and ambient harvesting. The conference will seek a broad balance in the speakers, discussion leaders, and attendees including young and established scientists and engineers, national and international representation from academic, industry, and government institutions/groups, and gender and racial diversity. Funding through this award would increase the number of graduate students and postdoc participants to prepare the next generation of scientific leaders in this field.In the ongoing series of biennial conferences on multifunctional materials and structures, the focus of this conference is on intelligence and self-learning. Researchers will address key scientific issues associated with envisioning, designing, and creating synthetic multifunctional materials and structures with intelligence and self-learning. They will identify gaps and present potential solutions on the integration of these novel functionalities into engineering structures, e.g., how to optimize the disparate roles of interfaces and the design and fabrication approaches. The conference is being organized by leading researchers in this emerging field with deep ties to the worldwide community of scientists and engineers engaged in multifunctional research. The conference outcomes are expected to include novel concepts and mechanisms for achieving intelligence and self-learning, as well as new collaborations and ways of collaborating across disciplines.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.