REU Site: Creative Approaches to Materials Design and Processing

REU 网站：材料设计和加工的创意方法

• 批准号: 2149721
• 负责人: Reginald Rogers
• 金额: $ 36.95万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2149721&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Creative; Approaches; Materials

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Non-Technical SummaryThis REU Site at the University of Missouri-Columbia that focuses on materials design and processing is unique in that it includes proven, theatre-based creativity training interwoven into the framework of the more traditional research and professional development activities. This program is deliberately designed to address the urgent need for innovation in materials research in the United States. Creativity training is a necessary and fundamental component to building innovative capabilities in scientists and engineers but is rarely part of traditional curricula. This REU Site fills a critical gap in workforce development in materials design and manufacturing and addresses a national need for researchers who can solve complex, interconnected problems. The site purposefully promotes inclusivity through national recruitment of students, with an emphasis on non-Ph.D.-granting institutions, institutions that support under-represented minority students, and institutions that support deaf/hard-of-hearing students. Students work in teams and are co-mentored by affiliated faculty in the research area of their choice. The program leverages existing campus resources that include professional development training, and both social and academic support. Combining this wrap-around programming with interdisciplinary research in materials design/processing and creativity training, this REU Site enables undergraduate students to explore new avenues to materials innovation in the 21st century.Technical SummaryInnovation in materials design and processing requires a fundamental understanding of the interrelationships among structure, composition, processing, and properties. This is particularly critical for advanced functional materials, which are often micro- or nano-structured, and built through either self-assembly or complex fabrication processes, due to their unique and complex structure-function relationships, and their potential use in applications critical to human health and security. This REU Site at the University of Missouri-Columbia focuses on understanding and predicting these relationships for micro- and nano-structured materials across a wide spectrum of applications, including sensors, batteries, reactors, and implantable devices. The approaches include atomistic simulation, coarse-grain modeling, and materials design/fabrication/characterization techniques. This research intends to not only advance the science in each unique area, but provide students with unique, measurable skills in computational modeling, materials science design, processing, characterization, and creative thinking.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.

该奖项的全部或部分资金来源于《2021 年美国救援计划法案》（公法 117-2）。非技术摘要密苏里哥伦比亚大学的 REU 站点专注于材料设计和加工，其独特之处在于它包括经过验证的、基于戏剧的创造力培训，这些培训交织在更传统的研究和专业发展活动的框架中。 该计划旨在满足美国材料研究创新的迫切需求。 创造力培训是培养科学家和工程师创新能力的必要和基本组成部分，但很少成为传统课程的一部分。 该 REU 站点填补了材料设计和制造领域劳动力发展的关键空白，并满足了国家对能够解决复杂、相互关联的问题的研究人员的需求。该网站有目的地通过全国招生来促进包容性，重点关注非博士学位授予机构、支持代表性不足的少数族裔学生的机构以及支持聋哑/听力障碍学生的机构。学生以团队形式工作，并由附属教师在他们选择的研究领域共同指导。该计划利用现有的校园资源，包括专业发展培训以及社会和学术支持。该 REU 网站将这种环绕式编程与材料设计/加工和创造力培训的跨学科研究相结合，使本科生能够探索 21 世纪材料创新的新途径。技术摘要材料设计和加工的创新需要对相互关系有基本的了解结构、组成、加工和性能之间的关系。这对于先进功能材料尤其重要，这些材料通常具有微米或纳米结构，并通过自组装或复杂的制造工艺构建，因为它们独特且复杂的结构-功能关系，以及它们在关键应用中的潜在用途。人类健康和安全。 密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校的 REU 站点致力于理解和预测各种应用中微米和纳米结构材料的这些关系，包括传感器、电池、反应器和可植入设备。 这些方法包括原子模拟、粗粒度建模和材料设计/制造/表征技术。这项研究不仅旨在推进每个独特领域的科学发展，而且还为学生提供计算建模、材料科学设计、加工、表征和创造性思维方面独特的、可衡量的技能。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为是值得的通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来提供支持。