Triangle Center for Excellence for Materials Research and Innovation: Programmable Assembly of Soft Matter

三角材料研究与创新卓越中心：软物质的可编程组装

• 批准号: 1121107
• 负责人: Stefan Zauscher
• 金额: $ 1368万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1121107&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Triangle; Center; Excellence; Materials; Research; Triangle; Center; Excellence; Materials; Research

The Triangle Center of Excellence for Materials Research and Innovation (CEMRI)* will be a national resource for materials science and engineering research and education in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill (Triangle) area of North Carolina, a thriving technological and economic hub with a high concentration of materials innovation activity in both academia and industry. The Triangle CEMRI will focus on the study and development of soft matter components to be used in programmable assembly and functional and hybrid materials that result from the assembly of these components. It will synergistically leverage existing and complementary strengths of Duke, NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University, a top-ranked public HBCU. The Triangle CEMRI will have a significant impact in soft matter materials science through generation of (i) new fundamental insights and theoretical understanding, (ii) new design principles, (iii) new applications and uses for colloidal and macromolecular materials and their higher order assemblies, and (iv) an integrated education and outreach program. Understanding, harnessing and exploiting the dynamic processes related to the aggregation of multicomponent particulate and macromolecular assemblies represent significant current frontiers in materials research. Two interdisciplinary research groups (IRGs) comprised of leading researchers in materials theory, simulation, synthesis, processing and applications will surmount these frontiers. A Seed-funding program will also be instituted to allow the extension of the Triangle CEMRI's scope to new areas of soft matter research.IRG1: Multicomponent Colloidal Assembly by Comprehensive Interaction Design. The goal of IRG1 is to develop a fundamental understanding of self-assembly of bulk materials from multi-component suspensions of very small particles (colloids). The team will focus on elucidating the fundamental rules that govern programmed colloidal assembly for materials fabrication by design. Ultimately, this work will have ramifications for the production of hybrid photonic and phononic crystals, anisotropic conducting films, self-healing materials, "smart" gels, metamaterials, and other advanced engineering materials. IRG2: Genetically Encoded Polymer Syntax for Programmable Self-Assembly. The overall goal of IRG2 is to establish the rules for the design of "syntactomers" whose phase behaviors facilitate programming of their self-assembly into supramolecular structures. Syntactomers are macromolecules that consist of a collection of "letters" (monomers that can either be amino acids, nucleotides or synthetic components) are arranged within "words" (repeat units), which are in turn arranged by following a syntax - defined as the arrangement of words - into "phrases" (macromolecules). A new paradigm for macromolecular design will lead to new materials to be used as drug delivery vehicles, actuators, nanofibers, switchable membranes, functional connectors, and scaffolds for mineralization, tissue implants or 3-D cell culture.The Triangle CEMRI will coordinate establishment and access to specialized materials research facilities across the Research Triangle. Its researchers will have access to a global network of research resources, including several national laboratories and laboratories in Europe and Asia. Innovation and technology transfer will be enhanced by the Triangle CEMRI activities aimed at facilitating and catalyzing interactions with both large and small industrial and non-profit commercialization and innovation partners. A comprehensive integration of training, educational and outreach activities will take advantage of the high level of scholarship in materials research and related areas in the Research Triangle area. The overarching goal of the Triangle CEMRI in education, training, and outreach is to infuse materials science, engineering and technology education with a new relevance, excitement and value to audiences ranging from G5-12 students, undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, to the public sector.* an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)

三角材料研究与创新卓越中心（CEMRI）*将成为北卡罗来纳州Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill（Triangle）地区的材料科学和工程研究和教育资源，这是一个蓬勃发展的技术和经济枢纽，具有高度集中的材料Innovation Academia和Academia and Academia and Introvation Academia and Intravation Academia and Indayer。三角形CEMRI将重点放在软件组件的研究和开发上，这些软件组件将用于由这些组件组装而产生的可编程组装以及功能和混合材料。它将协同利用杜克大学，北卡罗来纳州，UNC-Chapel Hill和北卡罗来纳州中央大学的现有和补充优势，这是排名最高的公共HBCU。三角形Cemri将通过（i）（i）（i）新的基本见解和理论理解，（ii）新的设计原理，（iii）胶体和大分子材料的新应用和用途来对软物质材料科学产生重大影响。理解，利用和利用与多组分颗粒和大分子组件聚集有关的动态过程，代表了材料研究中的重要当前边界。两个跨学科研究小组（IRGS）由材料理论，仿真，合成，处理和应用领域的领先研究人员组成。还将制定一个种子资金计划，以允许将三角形CEMRI的范围扩展到软件研究的新领域。IRG1：通过全面的交互设计，多组件胶体组装。 IRG1的目的是从非常小的颗粒（胶体）的多组分悬浮液中对自组装的基本理解。该团队将专注于阐明针对设计材料制造的编程胶体组装的基本规则。最终，这项工作将对混合光子和声音晶体，各向异性导电膜，自修复材料，“智能”凝胶，超材料和其他高级工程材料产生影响。 IRG2：可编程自组装的遗传编码聚合物语法。 IRG2的总体目标是建立“句法”设计的规则，其相位行为有助于将其自组装编程成超分子结构。句法体是由“字母”集合（可以是氨基酸，核苷酸或合成成分的单体组成的大分子）在“单词”（重复单元）中排列的，而遵循的语法被安排为 - 定义为单词的布置 - 向“ Phroses”（Macrocaromolecules”（Macromolecules）。新的大分子设计范式将导致新材料用作药物输送车，执行器，纳米纤维，可切换膜，功能连接器和脚手架，用于矿化，组织植入物或3-D细胞培养物。三角形CEMRI CEMRI CEMRI将在整个研究Triangle跨越专业的材料研究机构。其研究人员将可以访问全球研究资源网络，包括欧洲和亚洲的几个国家实验室和实验室。旨在促进和催化与大型工业和非营利性商业化和创新合作伙伴促进和催化互动的三角CEMRI活动将增强创新和技术转移。培训，教育和外展活动的全面整合将利用研究三角区域的材料研究及相关领域的高水平奖学金。三角cemri在教育，培训和外展方面的总体目标是将材料科学，工程和技术教育注入新的相关性，兴奋和价值，从G5-12学生，本科生，研究生，博士生，博士后研究员，博士后研究人员到公共部门，再到公共部门。