2024 Solid State Chemistry Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar

2024年固态化学戈登研究会议（GRC）和戈登研究研讨会（GRS）得到了美国国家科学基金会材料研究部（固态和材料化学计划）的部分支持。会议将在新罕布什尔州新伦敦的科尔比-索耶学院举行，其中GRC（2024年7月21日至26日）将讨论全球最优秀的科学家在职业生涯各个阶段的前沿研究，而相关的GRS（2024年7月20日至21日）则旨在培训年轻科学家展示他们的研究。在“功能材料的多种方法：合成、表征和数据驱动发现”的科学主题下讨论的主题对于实现NSF促进科学进步的使命（例如，通过深入了解其结构如何控制其性能来发现更好的材料）具有重要意义；促进国家健康、繁荣和福利（例如，解决能源和可持续性方面的关键问题）；并确保国防安全（例如，发展强大的能源自给自足系统）。为了应对这些挑战，这些会议的独特形式促进了未发表研究成果的无障碍交流，并通过来自学术界、工业界和政府实验室的科学家的不同观点探索新思想。这些会议相对偏远的地点确保了参与者不受干扰，并促进了早期职业和更有经验的研究人员之间的非正式互动，以帮助发展科学界。在GRS中，研究生和博士后向同行导师学习，在专业环境中提出研究想法，获得信心，培养领导技能，并考虑潜在的职业道路。这些会议的计划反映了对多样性倡议的坚定承诺，确保传统上代表性不足的群体的参与者有机会展示他们的研究，确保他们得到注册和旅行支持，并确保有特殊需要的人得到适当的照顾。在GRC内安排了一个名为“权力时刻”的开放论坛，以促进有关科学界多样性和包容性挑战的讨论。固态化学主要研究具有扩展结构的材料的合成、结构、性质和应用。它通过与NSF“大创意”相关的倡议，为基础科学知识的重大进步做出了贡献，包括量子飞跃（例如，量子和磁性材料，超导体），利用数据革命（例如，通过机器学习发现高通量材料）和中等规模的研究基础设施（例如，原位和歌剧表征）。它对能源、可持续性和社会需求方面的关键问题产生了广泛的影响，包括电池、太阳能电池、激光、磁铁、发光二极管、硬质材料、超导体和催化剂。固态化学的基本目标是通过发展材料的组成和结构与材料的性质和功能之间的关系，设计出具有更好的控制和可预测性的更好的材料。在固态化学GRC和GRS上，研究人员被邀请分享他们解决这个问题的不同方法，通过提出新的创造性合成路线，应用更强大的表征工具，以及开发数据驱动的方法来发现新材料。在学术，工业和国家实验室的职业生涯的各个阶段的科学家提供不同的观点。范围扩展到新的材料类别，如拓扑固体，高熵合金，杂化材料和混合阴离子化合物。为了鼓励更深入的科学探究，这两次会议的形式在口头和海报展示期间都包括了充足的讨论机会。“不发表”政策促进了开放的交流，许多网络活动为发起协作、促进学习和最大限度地利用共享基础设施提供了机会。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。

Non-Technical SummaryThe 2024 Solid State Chemistry Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) are supported in part by the NSF Division of Materials Research (Solid State and Materials Chemistry Program). They take place at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, NH, with the GRC (July 21-26, 2024) featuring discussion of cutting-edge research from the best scientists worldwide at all stages of career, and the associated GRS (July 20-21, 2024) directed to training younger scientists to present their research. The topics discussed under the scientific theme of "Diverse Approaches to Functional Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Data-Driven Discoveries" are important for fulfilling NSF's missions to promote the progress of science (e.g., to discover better materials by gaining a deeper understanding of how their properties are controlled by their structure); to advance national health, prosperity, and welfare (e.g., to solve critical problems in energy and sustainability); and to secure the national defense (e.g., to develop robust systems for energy self-sufficiency). To address these challenges, the unique format of these meetings promotes unencumbered exchange of unpublished research results and exploration of new ideas through diverse viewpoints from scientists in academia, industry, and government laboratories. The relatively remote location of these meetings ensures that participants are free from distractions and promotes informal interactions between early career and more experienced researchers to help grow the scientific community. In the GRS, graduate students and postdocs learn from peer mentors to present research ideas in a professional setting, acquire confidence, develop leadership skills, and consider potential career paths. The programs for these meetings reflect a strong commitment to diversity initiatives, ensuring that participants from traditionally underrepresented groups are given opportunities to present their research, that they receive registration and travel support, and that those with special needs are appropriately accommodated. An open forum called the "Power Hour" is scheduled within the GRC to promote discussion about challenges in diversity and inclusion in the scientific community.Technical SummarySolid state chemistry focuses on the synthesis, structure, properties, and applications of materials with extended structures. It contributes to significant advances in fundamental scientific knowledge, through initiatives connected with NSF's "Big Ideas," including Quantum Leap (e.g., quantum and magnetic materials, superconductors), Harnessing the Data Revolution (e.g., high-throughput materials discovery through machine learning), and Mid-scale Research Infrastructure (e.g., in situ and in operando characterization). It makes broad impacts to confront critical problems in energy, sustainability, and societal needs, including batteries, solar cells, lasers, magnets, light-emitting diodes, hard materials, superconductors, and catalysts. The fundamental goal of solid state chemistry is to design better materials with greater control and predictability, by developing relationships connecting composition and structure to the properties and function of materials. At the Solid State Chemistry GRC and GRS, researchers are invited to share their diverse approaches to solve this problem, by proposing new creative synthetic routes, applying more powerful characterization tools, and developing data-driven methods to discover new materials. Different perspectives are offered from scientists at all stages of career in academic, industrial, and national laboratories. The scope is expanded to new classes of materials, such as topological solids, high-entropy alloys, hybrid materials, and mixed-anion compounds. To encourage deeper scientific inquiry, the format of both meetings includes ample opportunities for discussion during the oral and poster presentations. The “no publication” policy fosters open communication and many networking activities provide opportunities to initiate collaborations, promote learning, and maximize use of shared infrastructure.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.