ERC 22403

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The Division of Materials Research
ERC 2/24/03 Thomas A. Weber http//www.nsf.gov/mps
/dmr
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NSF Vision

• Enabling the nations future
• through discovery, learning
• and innovation.

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NSFs Strategic Goals

• Ideas - Discovery across frontiers and
  connections in service to society
• People - A diverse, internationally competitive
  and globally-engaged workforce
• Tools Accessible, state-of-the-art information
  bases and shared tools

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Materials Research and Education

• Perhaps what is most significant about materials
  research throughout its history is that...it
  tended to be a major limiting factor in
  determining the rate at which civilization could
  advance
• Frederick Seitz

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Materials Research and Education

• We need to bring home the message that materials
  research generates wealth - a public wealth that
  is in the national interest
• Neal Lane

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Materials Research and Education

• Often the greatest excitement lies at the
  interfaces between fields or between basic
  science and engineering, and we are now seeing a
  rapid diffusion of scientific advances into new
  technology crucial to our well-being and security
• ...this flow of new technology requires a flow
  of talent nurtured through fundamental materials
  research
• Ted Geballe and David White

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Materials Research at NSF

• The Strategies
• to enhance the fundamental understanding of
  materials
• to develop partnerships with universities and
  industry
• to provide interdisciplinary education and
  training to prepare future scientists and
  engineers for careers in academia, government and
  industry

• The Objectives
• to synthesize novel materials with desirable
  properties
• to advance fundamental understanding of the
  behavior and properties of materials
• to develop processes for producing, modifying and
  shaping materials

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DMR Budget
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DMR - Diverse Funding Modes

• Disciplinary Programs
• Metals, Ceramics, Electronic Materials
• Solid State Chemistry, Polymers, Condensed-Matter
  Physics
• Cross-cutting Programs and Mechanisms
• Materials Theory
• Centers (MRSECs, STCs)
• National Facilities and Instrumentation (NAF,
  IMR, MRI)
• Office of Special Programs
• Focused Research Groups (via disciplinary
  programs)
• International Cooperation - Workshops -
  Conferences....
• Educational Initiative, REU Sites and
  Supplements, RETs....
• CAREER, ADVANCE, EPSCoR, SBIR, RUI, GOALI....

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Office of the Division Director
Division Director Thomas A. Weber
Executive Officer W. Lance Haworth
Computer Specialist Maxine Jefferson
Administrative Unit
Advanced Materials Processing Cluster
Base Science Cluster
Materials Research Technology Enabling Cluster
Administrative Manager Carol A. Savory
Coordinating Program Director David L. Nelson
Coordinating Program Director LaVerne D. Hess
Coordinating Program Director Bruce A. MacDonald
Coordinating Program Director G. Bruce Taggart
Secretary (Division) Ethel M. Watson Secretary
(Admin.) Shirley J. Millican
Solid-State Chemistry David L. Nelson
Metals K. L. Murty Bruce A. MacDonald
Materials Research Science and Engineering
Centers Ulrich Strom Maija M. Kukla
Polymers Andrew J. Lovinger Michael J. Owen
Coordinating Program Assistant Neila R. Odom E.
Diane Ruffner
Ceramics Lynnette Madsen
Condensed Matter Physics H. Hollis Wickman Wendy
Fuller-Mora Bellave Shivaram Udo Pernisz
National Facilities and Instrumentation Joseph
Akara Hugh M. Van Horn
Electronic Materials LaVerne D. Hess
Senior Program Assistant Deborah E.
Dory Bernadine Trumble
Materials Theory G. Bruce Taggart Daryl W. Hess
Program Assistant Renee Ivey Dana M. Walden
Special Programs Carmen I. Huber
volunteer
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Education in DMR

• Integrated with research
• grad students, undergraduates, postdocs, RUIs...
• summer schools, workshops...
• REU supplements and sites, RETs
• MRSECs, STCs and user facilities
• REU and RET activities
• partnerships, schools, public understanding
• Education Awards
• Dear Colleague Letter on education - novel
  concepts and approaches

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Education in DMR

• Novel concepts and approaches that may be
  particularly useful in materials-related
  education.
• Inquiry-based learning, peer instruction,
  integration of research and education, and early
  exposure to the workplace are some themes that
  may be more fully explored.
• Graduate education is the main focus, but
  proposals may also address innovation in the
  upper-level undergraduate curriculum/teaching
  methods and the integration of research and
  teaching.
• While such proposals may involve student
  stipends, the thrust in DMR is for test of
  concept, not the establishment of a new class of
  fellowships or traineeships.
• Proposals should also provide a mechanism for
  assessment and dissemination of results to the
  broader educational and materials research
  communities.

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Creation of Self-Assembling Nanoscopic
StructuresShenda M. Baker, Harvey Mudd College,
DMR-09071Education, Outreach and Mentoring
Research is done by undergraduates on high
quality instrumentation. Students work on
projects that are likely to be published in peer
reviewed journals. Many will do an academic year
thesis, but the best immersion is during the
summer when they really get to experience
full-time research. Most students doing research
in my laboratory attend graduate school or go
directly into the chemical industry for a few
years (and then on to graduate school). Figure
to right is Angela Buffone preparing to start a
kinetics run on the FTIR in the mode of
attenuated total reflection.
Every year we enjoy up to two sessions with the
Etiwanda High School AP Chemistry class taught
currently by Paula Fredericks. Students spend a
day in my Harvey Mudd laboratory exploring
polymers from super absorbent gels of all
varieties to viscoelastic polymers. They always
leave with a renewed sense of enthusiasm! Each
summer, one student is chosen to work along side
us in the laboratorythis is usually a fairly
intense competition. Figure to left is Aaron
Jacobs explaining why disposable diapers hold so
much water.
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UMD MRSEC Education Outreach ProgramNSF
Criterion 2 Student Science Conference

• Over 22 MRSEC members participate yearly in the
  Student Science Conference (SSC) as mentors.
  Each mentor spends a minimum of 20 hours working
  with a SSC student.
• SSC participants are composed of a cross section
  of academic levels and 75 of the participants
  are from underrepresented groups in science.
• SSC is a partnership among MRSEC, the American
  Institute of Physics, and public schools.
  Together, the partners create a network of
  resources, tools, and experiences for SSC
  students and their schools.
• Each component of the SSC enhances the district
  curriculum by integrating the use of technology,
  improving student research processes, and
  teaching effective presentation skills.
• Through the SSC, students and the community
  better understand the important role of research
  in society and improve their perceptions of
  science.
• The SSC has gained recognition and interest from
  area schools, the community, the press, and has
  been presented at professional meetings.

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University of Florida Physics RET Program
1999-2000K. Ingersent and A. Dorsey, University
of Florida, DMR-9820518

• RET program for ten K-12 teachers
• Mentored research experience.
• Teaching products developed and disseminated
• Lesson plans on thermodynamics, percolation,
  nanotechnology, subatomic particles, the
  scientific method.
• Handouts describing best teaching practices and
  classroom experiments.
• One publication in Physics Education, one online
  laboratory tour.
• Outreach since their RET participation, teachers
  have performed Physics is Fun demonstrations in
  schools and to the general public, and passed
  their training on to colleagues and students.

2000 RET participants Nora Stackpole, modeling
cleanroom attire, and Stephen Gerofsky,
demonstrating the frozen-banana hammer.
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Tools

• Instrumentation for Materials
• IMR and MRI - 17.6 M
• Major Facilities
• National High Field Magnet Laboratory
• CHESS and SRC
• Neutron Beam Lines at NIST
• NNUN

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Partnerships

• Industry and business
• GOALI, Centers, SBIR, review/evaluation,
  workshops...
• Other agencies
• Facilities, workshops, national labs,
  initiatives...
• States and local government
• Education, public understanding, outreach...
• International
• Global network, collaboration, facilities...
• Professional societies
• Public understanding, professional development...

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Proposal Review Criterion IIntellectual Merit

• Potential to advance knowledge and understanding
  within and across fields
• Qualification of investigators
• Creativity and originality
• Conceptualization and organization
• Access to resources

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Proposal Review Criterion IIBroader Impacts

• Advancement of discovery and understanding while
  promoting teaching, training and learning
• Participation of underrepresented groups
• Enhancement of infrastructure for research and
  education
• Dissemination of results to enhance scientific
  and technological understanding
• Benefits to society
• Value added by international cooperation

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NSF sponsored InternationalWorkshops on Materials

• Trilateral Workshop April 1995
• Canada and Mexico
• US EC workshop December 1996
• Pan-American workshop June 1998
• Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and Venezuela
• US Asian-Pacific workshop November 1998
• Australia, China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore,
  South Korea, and Taiwan
• US Africa workshop August 2000
• Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho,
  Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa,
  Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
• The primary goal is to enhance collaboration in
  materials research, education and technology

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Major Recommendations

• Develop Virtual Institutes via the Internet with
  video capabilities for distance conferencing and
  learning
• Organize and coordinate exchange programs at all
  professional levels
• Develop a Materials World Net as a resource for
  research and education
• e.g. a searchable database containing materials
  properties, publications, facilities,
  instruments, experts...
• Establish mechanisms for long-term collaborations
  among academia and industrial and government
  laboratories
• Enhance public awareness of the contributions of
  materials science and technology

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NSF-EC Cooperation in Materials Research

• The US-EU Science and Technology Agreement
• The EC-NSF Implementing Arrangement
• Cooperative activities may be undertaken in the
  field of materials sciences as set out in the
  ECs Thematic Programme Competitive and
  Sustainable Growth, and as set out in NSF
  Programs in materials sciences and related areas
• Parallel review, coordinated awards
• Three competitions under FP-5 and 10 NSF awards
  to date

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Joint EC/NSF Workshop on Nanotechnologies

• October 19-20, 2000 in Toulouse France
• Four topical areas
• Nanomaterials for the information society
• Nanobiotechnology and interfaces to biology
• Nanomaterials for structural and chemical
  functions
• Manufacturing at the nanoscale

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Workshop Conclusions

• Nanotechnology an urgent priority
• Need to raise awareness of potential of nano
• Identify strategic areas
• Stimulate the science-society dialogue
• Confirm long-term research objectives
• Enhance mobility of students/researchers between
  the EU and US
• Set up joint databases
• Develop a common strategy to reinforce
  transatlantic cooperation

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Additional Workshops

• Manufacturing and Processing for Nano-technology
• January 2002 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Societal, Ethical and Educational/Training
  Aspects of Nano-technology
• January-February, 2002 in Lecce, Italy
• Tools and Instrumentation for Nano-Scale Science
  and Technology
• June 2002 in Grenoble, France
• Materials for Nano-technology
• December 2002 in Boston, MA

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Dear Colleague Letters

• NSF-Europe Collaboration
• Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark,
  Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland,
  Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal,
  Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and
  the European Science Foundation
• NSF-Americas Collaboration
• Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, and
  Mexico

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Response to NSF-Europe

• 120 proposals to date
• Austria (2) Italy (31)
• Belgium (2) The Netherlands (1) Czech Rep
  (3) Poland (1)
• Finland (1) Spain (4)
• France (9) Sweden (15)
• Germany (26) Switzerland (2)
• Hungary (1) United Kingdom (20)
• Ireland (3)
• some involve more than one foreign country

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Response to NSF-Americas

• Two type of proposals
• Type A are for full research collaborations (64)
• Type B for workshops, symposia, short exchange
  visits (12)
• Argentina (11) Chile (12)
• Brazil (34) Colombia (5)
• Canada (15) Mexico (27)
• 2 foreign countries (7)
• 3 foreign countries (5)
• All foreign countries (2)

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Additional International Activities

• Extend NSF/EC Cooperation (EC 6th Framework)
• US - Middle East Planning Meeting in March, 2002
• NSF International Materials Institute
  (competition 2002)
• towards a Materials World Net
• 3 awards planned in Fall 2002
• Extend cooperation with funding agencies and
  organizations in Europe (bilateral), Americas,
  Africa, Asian-Pacific region
• NSF/Europe and NSF/Americas Dear Colleague
  Letters
• NSF/Middle East planning meeting in September,
  2000
• NSF/Russia planning meeting in June, 2002
• NSF/India planning meeting in January, 2003
• Bilateral workshops (US-Italy, March 2002)
• US-Europe materials coordination meetings (USEMAT)

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FY 2004 Budget Request

• Nano (5.30M)
• ITR, BE and Mathematics (1.36M)
• Core enhancement (including QST) (10.00M)
• Partnerships for Research and Education (2.00M)
• International collaboration (3.0M)
• International Materials Institutes (1.80M)
• User facilities (4.5M), including 2.0M for
  beam line planning at SNS

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Materials Research

• Most of all, it is a worthy exercise of the mind.
• William O. Baker