Posted: February 14, 2008 |
Flagship project on smart nanocomposites starts at Chinese Academy of Sciences |
(Nanowerk News) With the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology, a major research project on intelligent nanocomposites has recently kicked off in Beijing.
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Led by Prof. JIANG Lei, its chief scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Institute of Chemistry, the project will mainly focus on the following three aspects: the signal recognition, smart regulation, driving mechanism and structural effects in life systems; new methods for preparing molecular systems capable of making smart responses and related mechanisms at the liquid/solid/and/gas interface; and principles for designing and assembling intelligent nanocomposites, their multi-scale synergy effects, their energy conversion and transport patterns, and new methods for their measurement and characterization.
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With a budget of about 13 million yuan (approx. 1.8 million) for its first two-year implementation, the five-year project is slated to produce new knowledge, new know-how and new materials for the sustainable development of smart materials, and the related technology transfer. It is expected to lay a solid theoretical framework for the new research area, bring up a batch of high-level research professionals, and establish several research teams with worldwide recognition.
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