Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Microscale Autonomous Device Engineering (MADE)

规划资助：微型自主设备工程工程研究中心（MADE）

• 批准号: 1840557
• 负责人: Juan De Pablo
• 金额: $ 9.57万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 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 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840557&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers (ERC) 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.Automation has reshaped the US economy, revolutionizing US manufacturing (production lines), management of capital (trading), transportation (self-driving and flying vehicles), and learning (information technologies). In a radical departure from macroscale automated systems, a new ERC will be proposed which aims to push the frontiers of intentional, yet complex, automated systems to the microscale, by developing and implementing active, self-regulating microparticles, membranes and assemblies that can react to external cues in real time. The prospect ERC aims to create systems that operate at length scales that are well below direct human intervention, performing tasks that, until now, have not been possible. This planning grant will be used to hold a variety of planning activities, including several meetings with different stakeholders for the proposed engineering technologies. The planned ERC will operate at the convergence of physics, chemistry and biology to develop new engineering principles for autonomous microscale assemblies that actively propel, self-assemble, reconfigure and respond (via the systems-level integration of structures and microcircuits that can sense, compute and actuate), enabling a second revolution in automation that will benefit humankind. The ERC will focus on 1) Adaptive microscale materials based on self-motile and addressable microparticles, 2) Active membranes consisting of microscale two-dimensional constructs that amplify signals, drive and regulate transport processes or harness mechanical energy to reshape and control interfaces, 3) Programmable polymeric and liquid crystal assemblies, gels and coatings that form, transform and disassemble in response to a range of chemical and physical cues, external fields, forces and biological stimuli.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（ERC）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，以计划收敛的中心尺度工程研究。自动化已重塑了美国的经济，革新了美国的制造业（生产线），资本管理（交易），运输（自动驾驶和飞行车辆），以及学习技术（信息技术）。在远离宏观自动化系统的根本性偏离中，将提出一个新的ERC，旨在通过开发和实施主动的自我调节的微粒，膜和组件，将有意但复杂的自动化系统的边界推向显微镜，以实时对外部线索做出反应。 Prospect ERC旨在创建远低于直接人类干预的系统，执行至今仍无法执行的任务。该计划赠款将用于开展各种计划活动，包括与拟议工程技术的不同利益相关者的几次会议。计划中的ERC将在物理，化学和生物学的融合中运作，以开发自动微观组件的新工程原理，这些组件会积极推动，自我组装，重新配置和响应（通过系统级结构和微电路的整合，可以感知，计算和促使自动化的第二革命，从而使自动化造成第二次革命。 The ERC will focus on 1) Adaptive microscale materials based on self-motile and addressable microparticles, 2) Active membranes consisting of microscale two-dimensional constructs that amplify signals, drive and regulate transport processes or harness mechanical energy to reshape and control interfaces, 3) Programmable polymeric and liquid crystal assemblies, gels and coatings that form, transform and disassemble in response to a range of chemical and physical提示，外部领域，部队和生物刺激。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来评估值得支持的。