EAGER HBCU: Feasibility Study for International Research, Education and Workforce Development on Sustainable Bio-materials Using NSF I-Corps Framework

EAGER HBCU：利用 NSF I-Corps 框架进行可持续生物材料国际研究、教育和劳动力发展的可行性研究

• 批准号: 2011135
• 负责人: Mahour Parast
• 金额: $ 13.26万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-15 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2011135&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; HBCU; Feasibility; Study; International

1743679 (Parast)The objective of this project is to enhance NC A&T's research and educational capability in the area of bio-based materials through integrating an innovative and novel International I-Corps (I2-Corps) program into graduate students' research and education to 1) accelerate research and discovery in bio-based materials via international partnerships, 2) ensure relevance of research to industry applications, and 3) enhance student's global awareness via synchronized scientific research, customer discovery, and market analysis. The effort is centered on a potentially transformative approach to capacity building in research and education through developing a research niche at NC A&T State University that addresses the needs of the bio-economy of 2030. This is to be achieved through strengthening the core competency of NC A&T State University in research in Sustainable Bio-materials through integrating technological innovation utilizing the NSF I-Corps model in an international context.Bio-based materials are to be investigated, developed, and deployed through an integrated approach utilizing experiments and modeling. The modeling will use molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory. International collaboration is a key for realization of the vision in a holistic manner, because sustainable resources are location-specific, and their localized accessibility and abundance promotes specific bio-mass conversion expertise and bio-materials knowledge development in the respective region or country. For instance, while the U.S. team has experience in extracting molecular species from animal manure, the partners in France have experience working with algae, and the Danish and Brazilian partners have worked with jojoba oil and castor oil, respectively. international collaboration will bring together the complementary expertise necessary to address the challenge of engineering bio-material from bio-waste.

1743679 (Parast)该项目的目标是通过将创新的国际 I-Corps (I2-Corps) 计划融入研究生的研究和教育中，增强 NC A&T 在生物基材料领域的研究和教育能力， 1) 通过国际合作加速生物基材料的研究和发现，2) 确保研究与行业应用的相关性，3) 通过同步科学研究、客户发现和市场分析增强学生的全球意识。这项工作的重点是通过在北卡罗来纳州 A&T 州立大学开发一个研究领域，以一种潜在的变革性方法来进行研究和教育能力建设，以满足 2030 年生物经济的需求。这是通过加强北卡罗来纳州 A&T 州立大学的核心能力来实现的。 A&T 州立大学在国际背景下利用 NSF I-Corps 模型整合技术创新来研究可持续生物材料。生物基材料将通过利用实验和建模的综合方法进行研究、开发和部署。该建模将使用分子动力学模拟和密度泛函理论。国际合作是全面实现这一愿景的关键，因为可持续资源是因地而异的，其本地化的可及性和丰富性促进了各自地区或国家特定生物质转化专业知识和生物材料知识的发展。例如，美国团队拥有从动物粪便中提取分子物种的经验，而法国的合作伙伴则拥有藻类的研究经验，丹麦和巴西的合作伙伴分别拥有荷荷巴油和蓖麻油的研究经验。国际合作将汇集必要的互补专业知识，以应对从生物废物中工程生物材料的挑战。