I/UCRC Phase I: Center for Bioplastics and BIocomposites

I/UCRC 第一期：生物塑料和生物复合材料中心

基本信息

批准号：
1439732
负责人：
Vikram Yadama
金额：
$ 32.5万
依托单位：
Washington State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2014-09-15 至 2018-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1439732&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
UCRC Phase Center Bioplastics BIocomposites

项目摘要

The I/UCRC for Bioplastics and Biocomposites intends to create of transformative new materials and processing technologies as well as the reliable, comparable material data to allow efficient and profitable industrial use of biorenewable, alternative materials. The center team includes experts from the fields of polymer processing, polymer chemistry, materials science, and crop utilization, allowing a well-rounded interdisciplinary approach. The participating institutions have state-of-the-art facilities for polymer processing and characterization to facilitate the development of fundamental understanding of the influence of processing on the thermomechanical properties of biopolymers and biocomposites.The bioplastics industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the US (10% to 20% growth annually). The proposed center effort seeks to take advantage of expressed industrial interest in leveraging research efforts in order to accelerate systematic development of corroborated material data and processing experience for these novel materials. This center intends to train and educate undergraduates, graduate students and post docs as the future scientists and engineers in this area. The center will also prepare web-based videos targeted at K-12 teachers that will provide instructions on how to make easy-to-make, off-the-shelf bioplastics in the classroom. This will provide a pathway to introduce young students to STEM and engage them in green technologies.

I/UCRC 生物塑料和生物复合材料旨在创造变革性的新材料和加工技术以及可靠、可比较的材料数据，以实现生物可再生替代材料的高效和盈利的工业使用。该中心团队包括来自聚合物加工、高分子化学、材料科学和作物利用领域的专家，可采用全面的跨学科方法。参与机构拥有最先进的聚合物加工和表征设施，以促进对加工对生物聚合物和生物复合材料热机械性能的影响的基本了解。生物塑料行业是世界上增长最快的行业之一美国（每年增长 10% 至 20%）。拟议的中心工作旨在利用工业界对研究工作的兴趣，以加速这些新材料的确证材料数据和加工经验的系统开发。该中心旨在培养和教育本科生、研究生和博士后，成为该领域未来的科学家和工程师。该中心还将准备针对 K-12 教师的网络视频，提供有关如何在课堂上制作易于制作的现成生物塑料的说明。这将为年轻学生介绍 STEM 并让他们参与绿色技术提供一条途径。