Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites

规划拨款：I/UCRC 生物塑料和生物复合材料中心

• 批准号: 1266159
• 负责人: David Grewell
• 金额: $ 1.59万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 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: 2013-02-15 至 2014-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1266159&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; UCRC; Center; Bioplastics

1266159 Iowa State University; David Grewell 1266249 University of Massachusetts Lowell; Margaret SobkowiczKline The goals of the proposed center are: to improve the basic understanding of the synthesis, processing, properties, and compounding of bioplastic and biocomposite materials; to develop reliable material characteristics data for industrial partners; and to support large-scale implementation of renewable magterials. Iowa State University and the University of Massachusetts Lowell are collaborating to establish the proposed center, with Iowa State University as the lead institution. The intellectual merit of the proposed work lies in the creation of transformative new materials and processing technologies and the necessary reliable, comparable material data to allow efficient and profitable industrial use of biorenewable alternative materials. This will reduce dependence on petroleum and the release of harmful greenhouse gases. The team of researchers includes experts from the fields of polymer processing, polymer chemistry, materials science, and crop utilization. It combines a wide breadth of experience and expertise allowing a well-rounded interdisciplinary approach. The proposed center's vision is to develop the knowledge that will allow the production of an array of high-value products, including plastics, coatings, adhesives, and composites, from agricultural feedstocks that are compatible with current manufacturing systems at attractive scales and thereby promote rural-based economic development and sustainability. The proposed center will have positive impacts on the environment and the economy. The knowledge generated through research at the center will accelerate the demand for bioplastics, promoting a substantial, sustainable workforce that is less likely to be outsourced. Because much of the research will be conducted by undergraduate/graduate students and postdoctoral research associates, this center will train and educate future scientists and engineers. The center will also prepare web-based videos targeted at K-12 teachers that will provide instructions on how to make simple and easy off-the-shelf bioplastics in the classrooms. By leveraging existing activities on the various campuses, the center will strive to achieve 50% recruitment of under-represented students. In addition, by working with the same organizations and using a similar approach, the center will strive to retain 90% of these students.

1266159爱荷华州立大学；大卫·格雷维尔（David Grewell）1266249马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔大学；玛格丽特·索布科维奇（Margaret Sobkowiczkkin）提出的中心的目标是：提高对生物塑料和生物复合材料的合成，加工，性质和复合的基本理解；为工业伙伴开发可靠的材料特征数据；并支持大规模实施可再生的磁岩。爱荷华州立大学和马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔大学正在与爱荷华州立大学合作建立拟议中心。提出的工作的智力优点在于创建变革性的新材料和加工技术以及必要的可靠，可比较的材料数据，以允许对可生物可生产的替代材料进行有效和有利可图的工业使用。这将减少对石油的依赖和有害温室气体的释放。研究人员团队包括来自聚合物加工，聚合物化学，材料科学和作物利用领域的专家。它结合了广泛的经验和专业知识，可以采用全面的跨学科方法。拟议中心的愿景是发展知识，以允许从农业原料中生产一系列高价值产品，包括塑料，涂料，胶粘剂和复合材料，这些产品与当前的制造系统兼容有吸引力的规模，从而促进基于农村的经济发展和可持续性。拟议的中心将对环境和经济产生积极影响。通过该中心的研究产生的知识将加速对生物塑料的需求，从而促进一支实质，可持续的劳动力，不太可能外包。由于大部分研究将由本科/研究生和博士后研究伙伴进行，因此该中心将培训和教育未来的科学家和工程师。该中心还将准备针对K-12老师的基于网络的视频，该视频将提供有关如何在教室中制作简单简单的现成生物塑料的说明。通过利用各个校园的现有活动，该中心将努力实现50％的代表性学生的招聘。此外，通过与同一组织合作并使用类似的方法，该中心将努力保留90％的学生。