Planning Grant: I/UCRC for The Center for Macromolecular Topology (CMT)

规划资助：I/UCRC 高分子拓扑中心 (CMT)

• 批准号: 1134788
• 负责人: Ronald Larson
• 金额: $ 1.15万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-15 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1134788&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; UCRC; Center; Macromolecular

Planning Grant for an I/UCRC for Macromolecular Topology 1134832 University of Cincinnati; Gregory Beaucage 1134788 University of Michigan; Ronald Larson The University of Cincinnati and the University of Michigan are collaborating to establish the proposed center, with the University of Cincinnati as the lead institution. This is a planning grant request from the University of Cincinnati and the University of Michigan to explore a potential I/UCRC in macromolecular topology. Funds are requested for a two-day planning meeting with potential industrial sponsors in Cincinnati. The proposed Center for Macromolecular Topology (CMT) will address a need in the polymer industry to synthetically control, characterize, model and simulate complex macromolecular architectures to manipulate mechanical and rheological properties. The CMT will develop human capacity in the chemical industry. The center will significantly enhance the nations research infrastructure base, and plans to coordinate internet based video courses on rheology, scattering, synthesis and modeling of complex macromolecular systems that will be available to industrial as well as academic participants and the general public on arrangement with the Universities. CMT will actively recruit women and minority graduate and undergraduate students. The center has as a main goal enhancement of the intellectual capacity of the engineering workforce and capabilities in controlling molecular topology. Improvement in the control of molecular topology will lead directly to improvements in a wide range of consumer and industrial products from gels to tires; from plastic packaging to viscosity enhancement in oils.

I/UCRC 大分子拓扑规划拨款 1134832 辛辛那提大学； Gregory Beaucage 1134788 密歇根大学； Ronald Larson 辛辛那提大学和密歇根大学正在合作建立拟议的中心，辛辛那提大学作为牵头机构。这是辛辛那提大学和密歇根大学的一项规划拨款申请，旨在探索大分子拓扑中潜在的 I/UCRC。需要资金在辛辛那提与潜在的工业赞助商举行为期两天的规划会议。拟议的大分子拓扑中心（CMT）将满足聚合物行业对复杂大分子结构进行综合控制、表征、建模和模拟以操纵机械和流变性能的需求。 CMT 将培养化学行业的人才能力。该中心将显着增强国家的研究基础设施基础，并计划协调基于互联网的关于复杂大分子系统的流变学、散射、合成和建模的视频课程，这些课程将在与政府的安排下向工业界、学术界参与者和公众开放。大学。 CMT将积极招收女性和少数民族研究生和本科生。该中心的主要目标是提高工程人员的智力和控制分子拓扑的能力。分子拓扑控制的改进将直接导致从凝胶到轮胎等各种消费品和工业产品的改进；从塑料包装到油的粘度增强。