CEMRI: Multifunctional Nanoscale Material Structures

CEMRI：多功能纳米材料结构

• 批准号: 1121262
• 负责人: Mark Hersam
• 金额: $ 1620万
• 依托单位: Northwestern 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=1121262&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CEMRI; Multifunctional; Nanoscale; Material; Structures

The theme of the Northwestern University CEMRI* is Multifunctional Nanoscale Materials Structures. The main emphasis of the Center is to train visionary and globally competitive U.S. materials researchers to significantly impact the U.S. economy and solve global challenges, to innovate in an atmosphere of cooperation and healthy competition among national and international partners in both public and private sectors, and to integrate efforts in research, education, knowledge/technology transfer and networking. The Center manages and maintains shared experimental facilities accessed by both Northwestern and external researchers, fosters interactions with National Labs (especially with nearby Argonne National Lab), other universities, industry (including both MRSEC-initiated start-up companies and large corporations) as well as other institutions (including The Art Institute of Chicago), and develops innovative educational programs including the science-themed performances hosted by the MRSEC-sponsored Educational Transdisciplinary Outreach Program in the Arts (ETOPiA). The research goals of the center consist of understanding the fundamental principles and behaviors of complex nanomaterials systems, transferring results into the development of new functional devices and systems leading to new technologies and industries, and initiating close cooperation among national and international partners to improve research capabilities and infrastructure. Researchers are organized into Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs) investigating: "Controlling Fluxes of Charge and Energy at Hybrid Interfaces", "Fundamentals of Amorphous Oxide Semiconductors" and "Plasmonically-Encoded Materials for Amplified Sensing and Information Manipulation", as well as seed programs. The research strategy is to investigate novel phenomena through the interactions of charges, photons, plasmons and excitons in nanostructured materials, including discrete and collective effects in model materials using theory, simulation, modeling and detailed measurements. An understanding of the underlying science will provide a basis for the design of new and extended classes of functional nanostructures for potential applications in sensing and communication, energy and environmental uses. The educational goals of the Center are to develop and disseminate instructional materials for pre-college Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) classrooms based on Center research, to offer opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students to develop skills in innovation and entrepreneurship, to work with international partners and programs to equip U.S. students with global leadership capabilities and a global research perspective, and to provide national leadership in vertically-integrated STEM learning and teaching from middle-school to graduate school in order to improve quality and reduce the cost of education. The Center has a long history of developing Materials World Modules for implementation into STEM classrooms and providing summer research training for teachers and undergraduates in Research Experience for Teachers (RET) and Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs. Partnerships with the International Materials Institute at Northwestern and with industrial partners are providing new opportunities to develop international programs and opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to participate in innovation and entrepreneurship-based research activities.*a NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)

西北大学 CEMRI* 的主题是多功能纳米材料结构。 该中心的主要重点是培养有远见且具有全球竞争力的美国材料研究人员，以对美国经济产生重大影响并解决全球挑战，在公共和私营部门的国内和国际合作伙伴之间的合作和良性竞争的氛围中进行创新，以及整合研究、教育、知识/技术转让和网络方面的努力。 该中心管理和维护西北大学和外部研究人员访问的共享实验设施，促进与国家实验室（特别是附近的阿贡国家实验室）、其他大学、行业（包括 MRSEC 发起的初创公司和大公司）的互动与其他机构（包括芝加哥艺术学院）一样，并开发创新的教育计划，包括由 MRSEC 赞助的艺术教育跨学科推广计划 (ETOPiA) 主办的科学主题表演。 该中心的研究目标包括了解复杂纳米材料系统的基本原理和行为，将成果转化为新功能器件和系统的开发，从而带来新技术和产业，并启动国内和国际合作伙伴之间的密切合作以提高研究能力和基础设施。 研究人员被组织成跨学科研究小组（IRG），研究：“控制混合接口的电荷和能量通量”、“非晶氧化物半导体的基础知识”和“用于放大传感和信息操纵的等离激元编码材料”以及种子项目。研究策略是通过纳米结构材料中电荷、光子、等离子体激子和激子的相互作用来研究新现象，包括利用理论、模拟、建模和详细测量来研究模型材料中的离散和集体效应。 对基础科学的理解将为设计新型和扩展类别的功能纳米结构奠定基础，以用于传感和通信、能源和环境用途的潜在应用。 该中心的教育目标是根据中心研究开发和传播大学预科科学、技术、工程、数学（STEM）课堂的教学材料，为研究生和本科生提供培养创新和创业技能的机会，与国际合作伙伴和项目合作，使美国学生具备全球领导能力和全球研究视角，并在从中学到研究生院的垂直整合 STEM 学习和教学中提供国家领导力，以提高质量并降低成本 教育。 该中心在开发材料世界模块以在 STEM 课堂中实施以及为教师和本科生提供教师研究经验 (RET) 和本科生研究经验 (REU) 项目的夏季研究培训方面有着悠久的历史。 与西北大学国际材料研究所和工业合作伙伴的合作伙伴关系为开发国际项目提供了新的机会，并为本科生和研究生提供了参与创新和创业研究活动的机会。*美国国家科学基金会材料研究科学与工程中心（MRSEC）