REU Site: A Materials Science and Engineering Research Experience Focusing on Sustainability

REU 网站：专注于可持续发展的材料科学与工程研究经验

• 批准号: 1950907
• 负责人: David Lederman
• 金额: $ 35.74万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1950907&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Materials; Science; Engineering

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site continues its mission to increase the retention and graduation rates of underrepresented minorities in the science and engineering disciplines and to encourage these talented students to pursue post-graduate degrees in science and engineering. Motivated students from two-year and non-Ph.D. degree granting institutions are exposed to interdisciplinary research projects related to materials science and engineering. The research projects for the REU student participants focus on the understanding of materials that could be used in electronics, the health sciences, and other technological fields where sustainability (energy and water conservation) is important.TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The objectives of the REU site are to increase the retention and graduation rates of underrepresented minorities in the science and engineering disciplines, especially Hispanics/Latinos from low socio-economic backgrounds and women, and furthermore, to encourage these talented students to pursue post-graduate degrees in science and engineering. These goals are achieved by focusing on students attending minority-serving two- and four-year undergraduate institutions and identifying outstanding participants that should be encouraged to attend graduate school at a later stage. The REU site’s approach consists of recruiting motivated students from the targeted institutions, and then providing them with interdisciplinary research projects related to materials science and engineering. The research activities take place at the University of California, Santa Cruz, under the auspices of the new Materials Science and Engineering Initiative. Student activities include professional training, weekly group meetings, team building activities, and the final poster symposia. The mentors for the REU site are full-time faculty at UC Santa Cruz. The research projects include interdisciplinary methodologies to study the fundamental properties of materials that in the future may be used in energy-efficient electronic and optoelectronic devices, quantum computing, and new ways of harvesting, storing, and using renewable energy.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.

非技术描述：本科生（REU）网站的研究经验继续其使命，以提高代表性不足少数群体在科学和工程学科中的保留率和毕业率，并鼓励这些才华横溢的学生购买科学和工程学的学位。来自两年和非PH.D的动机学生。学位授予机构暴露于与材料科学和工程有关的跨学科研究项目。 REU学生参与者的研究项目专注于对可持续性（能源和节能能源和节水）的电子，健康科学和其他技术领域的理解。技术描述：REU站点的目标是增加少数人在科学和工程学的少数群体中的保留率和少数群体的保留率，尤其是在科学和工程学中的少数群体，尤其是在科学和工程学中的少数群体，尤其是妇女的保留率，以及少数情况。此外，鼓励这些才华横溢的学生购买科学和工程学的研究生学位。这些目标是通过专注于参加少数派服务两年和四年的本科机构的学生，并确定应该鼓励在稍后阶段上研究生院的出色参与者。 REU网站的方法包括招募有针对性机构的动机学生，然后为他们提供与材料科学和工程有关的跨学科研究项目。研究活动在新材料科学与工程计划的主持下在加利福尼亚大学圣克鲁斯分校举行。学生活动包括专业培训，每周小组会议，团队建设活动和最终海报研讨会。 REU网站的导师是加州大学圣克鲁斯分校的全职教师。研究项目包括研究未来可以用于节能和光电设备，量子计算以及新收集，存储和使用可再生能源的新方法的材料的基本特性的基本特性的方法。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估商标，该奖项反映了构成构成的依据和基础的支持。

项目成果

Recent Progress in the Development of a-Se/CMOS Sensors for X-ray Detection

• DOI: 10.3390/qubs5040029
• 发表时间: 2021-12-01
• 期刊: QUANTUM BEAM SCIENCE
• 影响因子: 1.4
• 作者: Hellier, Kaitlin;Benard, Emmie;Abbaszadeh, Shiva
• 通讯作者: Abbaszadeh, Shiva

Neuro-SWARM³: System-on-a-Nanoparticle for Wireless Recording of Brain Activity

Neuro-SWARM³：用于无线记录大脑活动的纳米粒子系统

• DOI: 10.1109/lpt.2021.3092780
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
• 影响因子: 2.6
• 作者: Hardy, Neil;Habib, Ahsan;Ivanov, Tanya;Yanik, Ahmet Ali
• 通讯作者: Yanik, Ahmet Ali

Natural biopolymers as proton conductors in bioelectronics

• DOI: 10.1002/bip.23433
• 发表时间: 2021-05-22
• 期刊: BIOPOLYMERS
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Jia, Manping;Kim, Jinhwan;Rolandi, Marco
• 通讯作者: Rolandi, Marco

Tellurium doped a-Se devices for improved optical absorption in indirect x-ray photodetection

掺碲 a-Se 器件可改善间接 X 射线光电检测中的光吸收

• DOI: 10.1117/12.2613150
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Medical Imaging 2022: Physics of Medical Imaging
• 作者: Hellier, Kaitlin;Benard, Emmie;Abbaszadeh, Shiva
• 通讯作者: Abbaszadeh, Shiva