IGERT: Multiscale Phenomena in Soft Materials

IGERT：软材料中的多尺度现象

• 批准号: 0221589
• 负责人: Morton Denn
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: CUNY City College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-12-01 至 2010-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0221589&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Multiscale; Phenomena; Soft; Materials

This proposal describes an inter-institutional IGERT program in soft materials to be offered jointly at City College of CUNY and Columbia University, which are in close proximity. De Gennes defines soft materials as organic media that organize on supramolecular length scales via weak associative interactions. Examples include thin polymeric films for sensors, organic blends for electronic displays, and natural and artificial tissue, spanning the range from complex fluids to soft solids. They are intrinsically multi-scale, molecular to macroscopic. A stunning variety of structures and morphologies can emerge, enabling a wide range of new technologies, and all scales impact processing and use. The Ph.D. program will be built around joint seminars, an industrial internship, collaborative thesis research, and a core of joint course offerings, including two new laboratory courses. The research will be in three complementary areas: effects of confinement on polymer statics and dynamics, chemical and physical patterning, and multi-scale phenomena in bio-related materials. The proposed core curriculum will be taken in addition to the core disciplinary requirements in the student's major department. Our proposal is consistent with existing Ph.D. requirements for all five participating departments, and does not add in any way to the degree requirements or faculty teaching loads; the soft materials courses will satisfy existing elective requirements, but will enable the students to focus these electives within a coordinated program. The proposed collaborative program is unique in two respects: First, it leverages the intellectual and material resources of two neighboring, urban, public/private institutions with complementary faculty and diverse student bodies. Second, it creates a unique, synergistic environment for research and graduate education in a niche area that is at the heart of numerous technologies essential to industries based in the greater New York regional area.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the fifth year of the program, awards are being made to twenty-one institutions for programs that collectively span the areas of science and engineering supported by NSF.

该提案描述了一项在CUNY和哥伦比亚大学城市学院共同提供的软材料中的机构间igert计划，该计划非常接近。 de Gennes将软材料定义为有机培养基，通过弱的关联相互作用在超分子长度尺度上组织。例子包括用于传感器的薄聚合物膜，用于电子显示的有机混合物以及天然和人造组织，涵盖了从复杂的流体到软固体的范围。它们本质上是多尺度的，分子到宏观。各种各样的结构和形态可以出现，实现了广泛的新技术，所有尺度都会影响处理和使用。博士计划将围绕联合研讨会，工业实习，合作论文研究以及联合课程产品的核心建立，包括两个新的实验室课程。这项研究将在三个互补领域：限制对生物相关材料中的聚合物静态和动力学，化学和物理模式以及多规模现象的影响。拟议的核心课程将除了学生主要部门的核心学科要求外还要进行。我们的建议与现有博士学位一致。所有五个参与部门的要求，并不以任何方式增加学位要求或教师教学负荷；软材料课程将满足现有的选修要求，但将使学生能够将这些选修课集中在协调的计划中。拟议的合作计划在两个方面都是独一无二的：首先，它利用了两个邻近的城市，公共/私人机构的知识和物质资源，并具有互补的教师和多元化的学生团体。其次，它为利基领域的研究和研究生教育创造了一个独特的协同环境，这是大纽约地区地区所必需的许多技术的核心。Igert是一项NSF范围的计划，旨在应对美国博士学位的挑战。具有多学科背景的科学家和工程师以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过在肥沃的环境中建立创新的研究生教育和培训的新模型来促进研究生教育的文化变革，以超越传统学科界限的合作研究。在该计划的第五年中，正在向二十一家机构颁发奖项，以统治NSF支持的科学和工程领域。