Interdisciplinary Nanotoxicity Center

跨学科纳米毒性中心

• 批准号: 0833178
• 负责人: Jerzy Leszczynski
• 金额: $ 500万
• 依托单位: Jackson State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-10-01 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0833178&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interdisciplinary; Nanotoxicity; Center

The enhancement of research and educational programs at Jackson State University (JSU) by supporting the multi-disciplinary Nanotoxicity CREST Center is proposed. The Center will consist of faculty members from the JSU Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Civil and Environmental Engineering. The interdisciplinary group of researchers will perform comprehensive investigations of nanomaterials that will strengthen the research infrastructure of Jackson State University. The proposed projects include different aspects of the development and production of nanomaterials and investigations of their toxicity. There are five proposed research subprojects: ?Silver Clusters: A Theoretical Study of Structure, Spectra, Paramagnetism, and Chemisorption?; ?Environment-Specific Issues in Nanoparticle Physics: Optical, Energy Transfer and Relaxation Processes?; ?Nanomaterial Based Sensing of Environmental Toxin Using hyper ? Rayleigh Scattering Spectroscopy?, ?Nanomaterials: a Study of Toxicity Mechanism, Bioaccumulation Potential, and Application for Prediction Modeling?, and ?Modeling and prediction of Physical Properties and Toxicity of Nanomaterials?. There are strong links among all subprojects of the proposed Center. One of the unique features is the two-way interaction between computational and experimental groups. The theoretical group will model nano-species studied by experimentalists. Based on the data from computational calculations, experimentalists will be able to test new materials that are predicted by theory to possess an enhanced property of interest. New courses and laboratories will be developed and executed by members of the Center in order to establish a graduate program in Materials Science. The Center's activities will be focused on training minority underrepresented graduate and undergraduate students and on lectures, workshops, seminar series, and research summer programs for undergraduate students from colleges surrounding Jackson and from HBCU/MI institutions. The collaborative activities of the members of the Center will also include the organization of two series of annual international conferences: ?Current Trends in Computational Chemistry? and ?Southern Schools on Computational Chemistry and Materials Science?. In addition to expanding the nation?s base for science and technology, the Center will also increase the number of Ph.D. degrees in computational chemistry awarded to African-Americans and will provide well qualified and diverse faculty members for US universities and colleges.

建议通过支持多学科纳米毒性 CREST 中心来加强杰克逊州立大学 (JSU) 的研究和教育项目。该中心将由来自 JSU 生物系、化学系、物理系以及土木与环境工程系的教职人员组成。跨学科研究小组将对纳米材料进行全面研究，这将加强杰克逊州立大学的研究基础设施。拟议的项目包括纳米材料开发和生产的不同方面及其毒性研究。拟议的研究子项目有五个：“银团簇：结构、光谱、顺磁性和化学吸附的理论研究”； “纳米粒子物理学中的环境特定问题：光学、能量转移和弛豫过程”； ？基于纳米材料的环境毒素传感使用超？瑞利散射光谱学？、“纳米材料：毒性机制、生物累积潜力的研究以及预测模型的应用”，以及“纳米材料物理性质和毒性的建模和预测”。拟议中心的所有子项目之间都有很强的联系。独特的功能之一是计算组和实验组之间的双向交互。理论小组将对实验学家研究的纳米物种进行建模。根据计算计算的数据，实验人员将能够测试理论预测具有增强的感兴趣特性的新材料。该中心成员将开发和执行新的课程和实验室，以建立材料科学研究生课程。该中心的活动重点是培训少数族裔的研究生和本科生，并为杰克逊周边大学和 HBCU/MI 机构的本科生举办讲座、讲习班、研讨会系列和暑期研究项目。 该中心成员的合作活动还将包括组织两个系列的年度国际会议：“计算化学的当前趋势”。和“南方计算化学和材料科学学校”。 除了扩大国家科技基础外，该中心还将增加博士人数。授予非裔美国人计算化学学位，将为美国大学和学院提供高素质和多元化的教职人员。