PIRE: Advancing the US-China Partnership in Electron Chemistry and Catalysis at Interfaces

PIRE：推进中美在界面电子化学和催化领域的合作

• 批准号: 0968399
• 负责人: Susannah Scott
• 金额: $ 250.53万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-01 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0968399&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PIRE; Advancing; US; China; Partnership

This PIRE renewal award expands support for a pioneering U.S.-China partnership in chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science, and adds additional Chinese institutions and a new alliance with two German institutions to the project. This multidisciplinary research and education effort focuses on catalytic systems that are technologically important in the development of clean energy and energy conservation. Global energy and environmental challenges require international science and technology cooperation and this project takes advantage of the major roles the U.S. and China play in creating and using energy. This partnership brings together complementary expertise and diverse viewpoints and provides U.S. researchers and students with access to expertise, facilities, and instrumentation not available in the U.S. The project's research focus is modern heterogeneous catalysis with an emphasis on well-defined nanostructured materials as both catalysts and catalyst supports. Catalysis occurs when a substance, the catalyst, changes the rate of a chemical reaction; heterogeneous catalysis occurs when the catalysts chemical phase (solid, liquid, or gas) differs from that of the reactants. This project?s research will improve our fundamental understanding of catalyst structure, function, and activity. It will also unite nanoscience, catalysis, and photocatalysis approaches to explore phenomena with relevance to energy-related issues such as H2 production, CH4 utilization, biomass conversion and CO2 activation and sequestration. Specific research areas include: quantum dot antenna/photocatalysts for CO2 reduction, selective oxidation of hydrocarbons by supported and doped metal oxides, spontaneous formation of catalytic nanostructures, and nanoscale optical imaging and spectroscopy. The PIRE research team will also explore various types of catalyst supports, including oxide nanowires, mesoporous carbon and silica, as well as new gold and platinum complex catalysts. U.S. graduate students and postdoctoral researchers will participate in 3-6 month research visits to research laboratories in China. They will be trained in Chinese language and culture and will have opportunities to develop project management, communication, and mentoring skills, thus equipping them with the technical, cultural, and language tools to become effective research leaders. A lecture course in technology transfer, and its accompanying Technology Transfer Study Tour to national and multinational companies operating in China, will be expanded, addressing technology transfer in the U.S. and China, and giving students a working knowledge of Chinese industrial research and development (R&D) operations. The project will continue its yearly international workshops that bring together graduate students and postdoctoral researchers with domestic and international senior researchers and industrial leaders to exchange ideas about research directions, with the participation of both Chinese and German research partners. A new enhancement to the workshop will be a half-day seminar on ethics in international science, with a particular focus on how culture influences ethical decision-making. This project has potential for broad impact well beyond the individual researchers. At the national level, it embeds U.S. individuals and institutions within a research alliance that includes two strategically important countries, China and Germany. It also links U.S. students with collaborating scientists from two U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories. At the institutional level, the funding for increased numbers of graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and research groups will bolster UCSB's catalysis/surface-science community and strengthen UCSB's role as a focal point for an innovative international research network. Industrial R&D is an increasingly globalized endeavor and career target for U.S. Ph.D. students, and this award will enable UCSB to attract more high-quality graduate students by providing access to international expertise, equipment, training, and networking opportunities. This project strengthens UCSB's institutional capacity to engage in international research and education partnerships via multiple mechanisms, including wide dissemination of lessons learned. In the original PIRE award, UCSB and DICP successfully negotiated a ground-breaking Intellectual Property Agreement, removing many barriers to collaboration and providing a template for other universities to cultivate research partnerships in China. The project will continue and expand its campus-wide activities, including a seminar series on U.S. - China socio-economic, policy, and scientific topics, and co-hosting events to promote awareness and interest in Chinese culture. UCSB will pilot the use of its AccessGrid video-conferencing classroom to internationalize PIRE-related courses and research activities, thus broadening the university's internationalization via the cyberinfrastructure. Finally, the project will bring Santa Barbara City College, a two-year college, with its expertise in the ethics of science and technology, into the international network.U.S. collaborating institutions include: University of California at Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara City College (CA), as well as U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (WA) and Argonne National Laboratory (IL). Chinese collaborating institutions include: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics - Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Dalian University of Technology, Xiamen University, Zhejiang University (Hangzhou), University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei), Tsinghua University (Beijing), Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics - CAS, and Fudan University (Shanghai). German collaborating institutions include: Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie (Göttingen) and Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Berlin).This project is cofunded by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering and the Division of Chemistry.

这项PIRE更新奖扩大了对化学，化学工程和材料科学领域的开创性美国 - 中国合作伙伴关系的支持，并增加了其他中国机构，并与两个德国机构进行了新的联盟。这项多学科研究和教育工作的重点是催化系统，这些系统在技术上很重要。全球能源和环境挑战需要国际科学与技术合作，该项目利用了美国和中国在创造和使用能源方面发挥的主要作用。这种合作伙伴关系汇集了互补的专业知识和潜水员的观点，并为美国研究人员和学生提供了美国在美国无法获得的专业知识，设施和仪器的访问权，该项目的研究重点是现代异质性催化，重点是催化剂和催化剂支持。当物质（催化剂）改变化学反应速率时，发生催化。当催化剂（固体，液体或气体）与反应物的化学相（固体，液体或气体）不同时，就会发生异质催化。该项目的研究将改善我们对催化剂结构，功能和活动的基本理解。它还将联合纳米科学，催化和光催化方法探索与与能量有关的问题相关的现象，例如H2产生，CH4利用，生物量转化以及CO2激活和隔离。特定的研究领域包括：用于二氧化碳减少的量子点天线/光催化剂，通过支持和掺杂的金属氧化物对碳氢化合物的选择性氧化，催化纳米结构的赞助形成以及纳米级光学成像和光谱。皮尔研究小组还将探索各种类型的催化剂支持，包括氧化物纳米线，介孔碳和二氧化硅，以及新的黄金和铂金复合催化剂。美国研究生和博士后研究人员将参加3-6个月的研究访问中国的研究实验室。他们将接受中文和文化的培训，并有机会发展项目管理，沟通和心理技能，从而为他们提供技术，文化和语言工具，以成为有效的研究领导者。将扩大技术转让的讲座课程，以及其参与的技术转移研究旅行，向中国运营的国家和跨国公司，以解决美国和中国的技术转移，并为学生提供有关中国工业研究与发展（R＆D）业务的工作知识。该项目将继续其年度国际研讨会，将研究生和博士后研究人员与国内外高级研究人员和工业领导者汇集在一起​​，以交换有关研究方向的想法，并参与了中国和德国研究伙伴。对研讨会的新增强将是半天的国际科学道德准则，特别关注文化如何影响道德决策。该项目具有广泛影响的潜力，远远超出了个人研究人员。在国家一级，它将美国个人和机构嵌入了一个研究联盟中，其中包括两个具有战略意义的国家，即中国和德国。它还将美国学生与来自美国两个国家能源部实验室的合作科学家联系起来。在机构层面上，增加研究生，博士后研究人员和研究小组的资金将加强UCSB的催化/表面科学社区，并增强UCSB作为焦点工业研发的作用，是越来越多的全球化全球化的努力和美国Ph.D.D.D.D.D.D.D.学生和该奖项将使UCSB能够通过提供国际专业知识，设备，培训和网络机会来吸引更多高质量的研究生。该项目强调了UCSB通过多种机制（包括广泛传播经验教训）进行国际研究和教育伙伴关系的机构能力。在原始PIRE奖中，UCSB和DICP成功谈判了一项开创性的知识产权协议，消除了许多合作障碍，并为其他大学提供了在中国建立研究合作伙伴关系的模板。该项目将继续并扩大其校园范围内的活动，包括有关美国社会经济，政策和科学主题的开创性系列，以及共同主持的活动，以促进对中国文化的认识和兴趣。 UCSB将试行使用其访问网络视频会议教室来国际化与PIRE相关的课程和研究活动，从而通过Cyber​​infrasture扩大了大学的国际化。最后，该项目将将圣塔芭芭拉城市学院（Santa Barbara City College）带入国际网络。合作机构包括：加利福尼亚大学圣塔芭芭拉分校和圣塔芭芭拉市学院（CA），以及美国能源部西北国家实验室（WA）和Argonne National Laboratory（IL）。中国合作机构包括：达利安化学物理研究所 - 中国科学院（CAS），达利安理工大学，北江大学，吉安大学（杭州大学），中国科学与技术大学（HEFEI），TSINGHUA大学（北京），北京大学，苏州纽约大学和nano -tionics和nano -Bionics，以及nano -Bionics，shiai and Nano -Bionics-和Fud。德国合作机构包括：Max-Planck-InstitutFürBiophysikalische Chemie（Göttingen）和Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft（柏林）。该项目由NSF的国际科学与工程办公室和化学部占领。