Conference: 2024 Colloidal, Macromolecular and Polyelectrolyte Solutions Gordon Research Conference and Seminar

会议：2024胶体、高分子和聚电解质解决方案戈登研究会议及研讨会

• 批准号: 2331084
• 负责人: Daeyeon Lee
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-15 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2331084&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; 2024; Colloidal; Macromolecular; Polyelectrolyte

Colloids, macromolecules, and polyelectrolytes serve as building blocks for biological and synthetic materials with microstructures that are often far from equilibrium. Such complexity and diversity give rise to unique properties with endless potential for innovation. Recent advances in characterizing and precisely controlling their structure and properties are enabling a wide array of applications from novel delivery vehicles to green materials to living and non-living systems that may provide insights into the origins of life. Due to the intricate nature of these systems, their study requires a unique approach involving a combination of experiments and theoretical analyses. The 2024 GRC on Colloidal, Macromolecules and Polyelectrolyte Solutions aims to explore the innovation of these materials and techniques for their characterization, focusing on engineering diverse soft matter systems. This conference serves as a forum for interdisciplinary collaboration and idea sharing among scientists from various fields such as engineering, materials science, physics, and chemistry.The study of colloidal, macromolecular, and polyelectrolyte solutions plays a crucial role in addressing various important questions in the field of soft matter and complex fluids. These questions involve the correlation between thermodynamics, structure, and transport of biological and synthetic materials. The remarkable fact that DNA, RNA, and proteins are all polyelectrolytes, and that globular proteins and their complexes are colloidal in nature and perform important functions in cells, highlights the immense physical and chemical complexity of these systems, and their linkages to fundamental scientific questions, as well as their practical applications in areas such as pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and chemical manufacturing. The sustained interest in this topic over the course of several decades demonstrates the enthusiasm and importance that researchers place on this field.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.

胶体、大分子和聚电解质作为生物和合成材料的构建块，其微观结构通常远离平衡。这种复杂性和多样性产生了具有无限创新潜力的独特属性。在表征和精确控制其结构和性质方面的最新进展使得从新颖的运载工具到绿色材料再到生命和非生命系统的广泛应用成为可能，这些系统可以提供对生命起源的见解。由于这些系统的复杂性，他们的研究需要一种独特的方法，涉及实验和理论分析的结合。 2024 年胶体、大分子和聚电解质解决方案 GRC 旨在探索这些材料和表征技术的创新，重点关注工程多样化的软物质系统。本次会议为来自工程、材料科学、物理和化学等不同领域的科学家提供了跨学科合作和思想共享的论坛。胶体、高分子和聚电解质溶液的研究在解决各种重要问题方面发挥着至关重要的作用。软物质和复杂流体领域。这些问题涉及生物和合成材料的热力学、结构和传输之间的相关性。 DNA、RNA 和蛋白质都是聚电解质，球状蛋白质及其复合物本质上是胶体并在细胞中发挥重要功能，这一引人注目的事实凸显了这些系统巨大的物理和化学复杂性及其与基本科学问题的联系以及它们在药品、个人护理产品和化学品制造等领域的实际应用。几十年来对该主题的持续兴趣表明了研究人员对该领域的热情和重视。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。