CCI Phase I: Center for Energetic Non-Equilibrium Chemistry at Interfaces (CENECI)

CCI 第一阶段：界面高能非平衡化学中心 (CENECI)

• 批准号: 0943639
• 负责人: Steven Sibener
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0943639&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CCI; Phase; Center; Energetic; Non

This Phase-I Center for Chemical Innovation will seek to discover, characterize and subsequently utilize a wide range of highly energetic and non-equilibrium chemical processes at interfaces. This will enable transformative advances in catalysis, materials growth and processing, and condensed state environmental chemistry. Scientific opportunities include the preparation of new classes of metastable interfaces with enhanced catalytic function, chemistry carried out with different reagent and substrate temperatures leading to enhanced process selectivity, new concepts in carbon dioxide management, and the creation of new or refined functional materials based on growth and processing under energetic and non-equilibrium conditions. The CCI brings a wide range of tools to bear on this grand challenge, including supersonic and hyperthermal molecular beams, in situ and ex situ scanning probe and electron microscopy, a complete suite of surface science and optical analytical spectroscopies, quantum chemical and materials computation, and molecular dynamics, molecular mechanics and Monte Carlo simulations.The Center for Energetic Non-Equilibrium Chemistry at Interfaces (CENECI) will support collaborative and team-based discovery that integrates researchers at the University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Montana State University and Northwestern University. Postdoctoral fellows as well as students at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels will participate in research activities in more than one CENECI laboratory, thus significantly broadening their training and introducing them to team-based discovery. These activities will be enabled by cyberinfrastructure links among all of the groups and a CENECI website, allowing ready participation in meetings, seminars, computation, and experiments from afar. A comprehensive outreach program will accompany activities at all institutions, with the focus during Phase-I being on chemistry education enrichment to the local underrepresented Hispanic and African-American K-12 populations in Chicago, Madison, and Boston, as well the Native American communities of Montana.The Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI) Program supports research centers that can address major, long-term fundamental chemical research challenges that have a high probability of both producing transformative research and leading to innovation. These Centers will attract broad scientific and public interest by sharing the results of their innovative approach to this challenging question.

该化学创新中心的I期中心将寻求发现，表征和随后在界面上使用广泛的高能和非平衡化学过程。这将使催化，材料生长和加工以及凝结状态环境化学的变革性进步。 科学机会包括制备具有增强催化功能的新型亚稳态界面，具有不同的试剂和底物温度进行的化学反应，从而提高了过程选择性，二氧化碳管理中的新概念以及在能源和非衡量条件下基于生长和加工的新功能材料的创建。 CCI为这一巨大挑战带来了各种各样的工具，包括超热和超热分子束，原位和原位扫描探针和电子显微镜，一套表面科学的完整套件以及光学分析光谱，量子化学和材料计算，以及分子动力学，分子的机械化中心。 （Ceneci）将支持合作和基于团队的发现，该发现将芝加哥大学，马萨诸塞州理工学院，威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校，蒙大拿州立大学和西北大学的研究人员整合。 博士后研究员以及高中，本科生和研究生级别的学生将参加多个Ceneci实验室的研究活动，从而大大扩大他们的培训并将其介绍给基于团队的发现。这些活动将通过所有小组和CENECI网站之间的网络基础结构链接启用，从而可以准备参加远处的会议，研讨会，计算和实验。一项全面的宣传计划将伴随所有机构的活动，第一阶段I期间的重点是对当地代表性不足的西班牙裔和非洲裔美国人K-112人口进行化学教育，芝加哥，麦迪逊和波士顿，以及蒙大拿州原住民社区的化学研究中心（CCI）的研究中心（CCI）的研究中心（CCI）的挑战，该中心的研究中心（CCI）的挑战，该中心构成了重要的研究中心。产生变革性研究和导致创新的概率。这些中心将通过分享其创新方法的结果来吸引广泛的科学和公众利益。