RUI: Coe College Undergraduate Research Program in Glass Science

RUI：科学院玻璃科学本科研究项目

• 批准号: 1262315
• 负责人: Steven Feller
• 金额: $ 9.7万
• 依托单位: Coe College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-01 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1262315&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Coe; College; Undergraduate; Research

NON-TECHNICAL: Over the next year this project includes an ambitious and balanced mixture of basic and applied research on oxide glasses. Glass has been described as the universal solvent and as such allows itself to be made from many compounds. This research includes the formation of new glasses and the property and structural characterizations that reveal the material's potential usefulness in applications such as batteries, nuclear storage, particle physics detectors, and antibacterial biological uses. Within the field of glass science, the Coe College group has expertise in forming glasses by a number of important novel syntheses. The work is being undertaken with nine Coe College undergraduates and their students through their NSF-REU site. The key broader impact is the development of undergraduate students into professional scientists. The Coe College undergraduate training model includes multiple years of research for each student. It is this sustained research that motivates students to continue to graduate schools at a rate of 75% per year. Over 40% of Coe students are first generation college-bound with 33% of them being from low-income families (with less than 150% of the federally-defined poverty level). There are a number of other broader impacts including outreach to grade schools, extensive leadership, training, and experiences within the glass and physics communities, and involvement of high-school students and teachers in this research.TECHNICAL: During 2013, this research includes the study of new oxide glasses prepared by novel pathways including roller quenching, laser levitation, and a solution method of glass formation. The research focuses on the determination of the glass?s physical properties, and relating these properties to the spectroscopically-determined atomic structure. The proposed research activities are divided into four main areas: 1. Preparation and study of important and novel glasses and their uses; 2. Intermediate range order (5 to 10 atom clusters) studies of glasses using 10B nuclear magnetic resonance, neutron scattering, molecular dynamics simulations of atomic structure, and time of flight mass spectroscopy; 3. Preparation of new glasses for calorimeters for future hadron collider experiments at the CERN lab; and 4. Study of a thermodynamic anomaly found at low alkali oxide contents in glasses. Within each activity there are a number of sub-projects consisting of both in-house work and research with a set of domestic and international collaborators. Glass is amongst the most practical of materials and the glasses studied are promising candidates for high energy storage batteries, nuclear waste incorporation, high-energy physics detectors, and biological/medical uses. An important aspect of the work is the substantial high-level research training of a large number of undergraduates (twelve in 2013, including nine supported directly by this project and three from Coe College's REU site). Many of these students are first generation college students.

非技术性：明年，该项目将包括对氧化物玻璃的基础研究和应用研究的雄心勃勃且平衡的组合。 玻璃被描述为通用溶剂，因此可以由许多化合物制成。这项研究包括新型玻璃的形成以及揭示该材料在电池、核存储、粒子物理探测器和抗菌生物用途等应用中的潜在用途的性能和结构表征。 在玻璃科学领域，科学院小组拥有通过许多重要的新颖合成方法形成玻璃的专业知识。 这项工作正在 Coe 学院的 9 名本科生及其学生通过 NSF-REU 网站进行。更广泛的关键影响是将本科生培养成专业科学家。 科学院的本科生培养模式包括每个学生多年的研究。正是这种持续的研究激励学生以每年 75% 的速度继续读研究生。超过 40% 的 Coe 学生是第一代即将上大学的学生，其中 33% 来自低收入家庭（低于联邦规定的贫困线的 150%）。还有许多其他更广泛的影响，包括向小学的推广、玻璃和物理界的广泛领导力、培训和经验，以及高中生和教师参与这项研究。 技术：2013 年期间，这项研究包括研究通过辊淬火、激光悬浮和玻璃形成溶液法等新途径制备的新型氧化物玻璃。 该研究的重点是确定玻璃的物理特性，并将这些特性与光谱确定的原子结构联系起来。拟议的研究活动分为四个主要领域： 1. 重要和新型玻璃的制备和研究及其用途； 2. 利用10B核磁共振、中子散射、原子结构分子动力学模拟、飞行时间质谱等技术进行玻璃的中程序（5至10个原子簇）研究； 3. 为欧洲核子研究中心实验室未来的强子对撞机实验准备新的量热器玻璃； 4.玻璃中碱金属氧化物含量低时发现的热力学异常的研究。每项活动都有许多子项目，包括内部工作和与国内和国际合作者的研究。 玻璃是最实用的材料之一，所研究的玻璃是高能蓄电池、核废料掺入、高能物理探测器和生物/医学用途的有希望的候选者。 这项工作的一个重要方面是对大量本科生进行了大量的高水平研究培训（2013 年有 12 名本科生，其中 9 名由该项目直接支持，另外 3 名来自科学院 REU 站点）。 这些学生中有许多是第一代大学生。