Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for translating and evolving nanoscale assembly for society (TENAS)

规划补助金：为社会转化和发展纳米级组装的工程研究中心（TENAS）

• 批准号: 1840489
• 负责人: Enrique Gomez
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840489&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.This project will explore approaches for the organization of a large engineering center focused on next-generation energy storage and harvesting, advanced structural materials, and improved water filtration membranes. The work is organized around two workshops, the first of which will invite stakeholders from industry, nonprofit organizations and charities, and venture capital firms to establish a value-proposition for the potential Center. This will help establish skills and knowledge that are needed to maximize the efficiency of the Center. Potential team members will then be identified with a focus on individuals with established records in needed areas. A special emphasis will be assigned to individuals whose expertise include multiple areas as potential "bridge-builders" to create an interconnected expertise network. A second workshop will then focus on team-building exercises that promote education of team capabilities, align goals and expectations, and identify any remaining skill or knowledge gaps. Assessment efforts will focus on addressing the hypothesis that a value-centered strategy and team analytic approaches will promote alignment of team and individual goals and expectations.Recent breakthroughs in the self-assembly of polymers and composites provide an opportunity to address many of today's grand challenges. Self-assembled materials may lead to next-generation devices for energy storage and harvesting, structural materials with multifunctionality and enhanced mechanical properties, and improved water filtration membranes. A new approach to simultaneously sinter ceramics and organics near 100 C termed cold sintering provides opportunities for new compositions and control of microstructure not previously possible. Translating these scientific advances to products that impact society will require a deep integration of expertise from different disciplines. As such, developing a "convergent" approach for an Engineering Research Center is crucial to accelerate the implementation of scientific discoveries for the benefit of society. By documenting and assessing efforts, the community will be informed of best practices and project outcomes, and thereby this project will help address the need for research on teams that make up large engineering centers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

工程研究中心竞赛的计划赠款是在ERC计划中作为试点招标进行的。不需要计划赠款作为整个ERC竞争的一部分，但旨在在团队之间建立能力，以计划收敛的中心规模工程研究。该项目将探索针对下一代储能和收获，先进的结构材料以及改进的水过滤膜的大型工程中心的组织方法。这项工作围绕两个研讨会进行组织，其中第一个将邀请来自行业，非营利组织和慈善机构的利益相关者以及风险投资公司为潜在中心建立价值承诺。这将有助于建立最大化中心效率所需的技能和知识。然后，将确定潜在的团队成员，重点是在所需领域拥有既定记录的个人。将特别重点分配给其专业知识的个人，其中包括多个领域作为潜在的“桥梁建设者”，以创建一个相互联系的专业知识网络。然后，第二个研讨会将重点放在团队建设练习上，以促进团队能力，保持目标和期望的教育，并确定剩余的技能或知识差距。评估工作将集中在解决以价值为中心的战略和团队分析方法的假设上，将促进团队，个人目标和期望的一致性。在聚合物和复合材料的自组装中，突破性的突破为应对当今许多宏伟的挑战提供了机会。 自组装的材料可能会导致用于储能和收获的下一代设备，具有多功能性和增强机械性能的结构材料以及改善的水过滤膜。 一种新的方法，用于同时烧结陶瓷和有机物，附近100 c被称为冷烧结，为新成分和以前无法控制微观结构的控制提供了机会。 将这些科学进步转化为影响社会的产品，将需要从不同学科的专业知识深入融合。 因此，为工程研究中心开发一种“融合”方法对于加速实施科学发现至关重要。 通过记录和评估努力，将向社区了解最佳实践和项目成果，从而将该项目帮助满足组成大型工程中心的团队的研究需求。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估来审查审查标准来通过评估来获得支持的。

项目成果

Diminishing Interfacial Effects with Decreasing Nanoparticle Size in Polymer-Nanoparticle Composites

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.207801
• 发表时间: 2018-11-13
• 期刊: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
• 影响因子: 8.6
• 作者: Emamy, Hamed;Kumar, Sanat K.;Starr, Francis W.
• 通讯作者: Starr, Francis W.