NSF Convergence Accelerator Workshop -- Accelerating Translational Materials R&D for Global Challenges

NSF Convergence Accelerator Workshop——加速翻译材料研发

• 批准号: 2122643
• 负责人: Jed Pitera
• 金额: $ 7.7万
• 依托单位: IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-01 至 2021-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2122643&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Convergence; Accelerator; Workshop; Accelerating

The overarching goal of the proposed workshop is the development of a broad-based materials innovation community that takes a holistic view of materials science, technology, and social impact and that brings together diverse participants to nucleate working groups focused around specific global challenges. Specifically, the workshop aims to bring together the materials science and manufacturing communities to accelerate the translation of emerging research in materials science towards applications of societal significance and with environmental sustainability. Materials are at the heart – both the answer to, and sometimes the source of – a broad range of global challenges. The importance of materials innovation has been recognized with sustained investment over the past decade, including programs such as the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) in the US (http://www.mgi.gov) and related efforts around the globe (e.g., https://elements-strategy.jp/en/, https://www.nomad-coe.eu/). The goal of this workshop is to ask the question of how materials research and development should be transformed to maximize our ability to address those global challenges. This transformation should also change our idea of materials innovation from the development of a point solution that solves a well-defined problem (optimizing performance or figure of merit) to a systems view that includes diverse voices, societal impacts, sustainability, and practical scale-up. Many global challenges need materials innovation. This includes first-order innovations thatcreate new industries (carbon capture, nitrogen fixation, novel thermoelectrics) and also second-orderinnovations to transform existing industries (novel energy storage chemistries, light-weight structuralmaterials). Technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing are showing the potential tosignificantly increase the pace of fundamental materials discovery. These innovations need to becombined with global scale – economic analysis, piloting, scale-up, lifecycle analysis, and adoption.Putting all these pieces together successfully is a complex challenge that involves not just academia butalso industrial, government, and non-profit entities.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.

拟议研讨会的总体目标是发展一个基础广泛的材料创新社区，该社区全面考虑材料科学、技术和社会影响，并将不同的参与者聚集在一起，组成专注于特定全球挑战的工作组。该研讨会旨在将材料科学和制造界聚集在一起，加速材料科学领域的新兴研究向具有社会意义和环境可持续性的应用的转化。材料是核心——既是答案，有时也是根源。材料创新的重要性。过去十年中，该领域的持续投资得到了认可，包括美国的材料基因组计划 (MGI) (http://www.mgi.gov) 等计划以及全球范围内的相关努力（例如，https://elements -strategy.jp/en/，https://www.nomad-coe.eu/）本次研讨会的目标是提出如何转变材料研究和开发以最大限度地提高我们应对这些全球挑战的能力的问题。这种转变也应该从材料创新的角度来改变我们的观念。开发一个解决明确问题（优化性能或品质因数）的系统视图，包括不同的声音、社会影响、可持续性和实际规模扩大许多全球挑战需要材料创新。创造新产业的一阶创新（碳捕获、固氮、新型热电）以及改造现有产业的二阶创新（新型储能化学、轻质结构材料）正在展示人工智能和量子计算等技术。显着增加的潜力这些创新需要与全球规模相结合——经济分析、试点、扩大规模、生命周期分析和采用。成功地将所有这些部分组合在一起是一项复杂的挑战，不仅涉及学术界，还涉及工业界、该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。