CAREER: Hydrophilic Macroionic Solutions

职业：亲水性大分子离子解决方案

• 批准号: 0545983
• 负责人: Tianbo Liu
• 金额: $ 45.12万
• 依托单位: Lehigh University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0545983&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Hydrophilic; Macroionic; Solutions

In this CAREER award, funded by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program of the Chemistry Division, Prof. Tianbo Liu of Lehigh University and his graduate student and postodoctoral associate colleagues will study the formation and properties of interesting, hydrophillic, nanometer-sized, macroions. These macroions resemble blackberries, in that they are single-layer vesicles, composed of many large, hydrophillic polyoxometalate clusters. This will be done using laser light-scattering, small-angle x-ray scattering and atomic force and transmission electron microscopy techniques. Prof. Liu and his team will study the kinetics and thermodynamics of these interesting chemical systems. In addition to his course-development, Prof. Liu will continue to mentor high-school students from under represented groups in research projects for national competitions.The interesting "blackberry" materials may eventually find use as biomimetic systems, or they may be useful as nanocontainers. The results of these studies are likely to shed light on other self-assembly processes that occur in nature.

在这个由化学系实验物理化学项目资助的职业奖中，理海大学的刘天波教授和他的研究生和博士后同事将研究有趣的、亲水性的、纳米级的大离子的形成和性质。 这些大离子类似于黑莓，因为它们是单层囊泡，由许多大的亲水性多金属氧酸盐簇组成。 这将使用激光散射、小角度 X 射线散射、原子力和透射电子显微镜技术来完成。 刘教授和他的团队将研究这些有趣的化学系统的动力学和热力学。 除了课程开发之外，刘教授还将继续指导来自弱势群体的高中生参与全国竞赛的研究项目。有趣的“黑莓”材料最终可能会被用作仿生系统，或者它们可能会用作纳米容器。 这些研究的结果可能会揭示自然界中发生的其他自组装过程。