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3 From Lab to Field: Recent University-Government Successes
3 From Lab to Field: Recent University-Government Successes
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Army, MIT, and industry collaborators. ISN conducts fundamental nanotechnology research and translation with a goal of improving soldier survivability and the capabilities of soldiers and their platforms.
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Scientific Breakthroughs Joannopoulos highlighted significant scientific breakthroughs stemming from ISN work. For example, novel, thermodynamically stable, nanocrystalline metal alloys developed by institute researchers outperform previous alloys that were not stable, had less stopping power, and weighed more.
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and ISN scientists helps connect researchers, students, and postdoctoral researchers with military research jobs. In response to a question from Salamanca-Riba, Joannopoulos noted that ISN research ideas can come from anywhere, although the institute has two oversight boards and meets frequently with senior Army leaders, including soliciting information from the Army for every 5-year program in order to whittle down research interests and ensure that proposals are viable.
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MEDE-affiliated doctoral students go on to join industry, academia, or national laboratories in roughly equal numbers, but its postdoctoral researchers overwhelm ingly choose to pursue academic careers. Graham-Brady described how MEDE uses a canonical modeling approach to adhere to Army classification codes.
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The restart of the commercial research sector can also siphon talent away from national laboratories,1 especially if it outpaces the restart of government research. Furthermore, faculty are now more conservative about funding in order to protect existing students, who, unlikely to find a job, will need to be supported for longer.
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The panelists were Dan Marren, independent contrac tor for Scientific Research Corporation; Krista Walton, Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the College of Engineering and the Professor and Robert "Bud" Moeller Faculty Fellow in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology; and Lei Zhu, Associate Director for Research at the Center for Layered Polymeric Systems (CLiPS) and Professor of Macro molecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University.
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Acid gases are very important to the chemical industry, Walton said, but classical abatement methods are expensive and environmentally hazardous. UNCAGE-ME seeks to uncover how variations in surface and bulk properties influence adsorption and reaction with acid gasses, learn ways to predict synergistic effects, and enhance these investigations with advanced analytics and machine learning.
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The challenge of creating next-generation dielectric film capacitors is that it requires a polymer that is suitable for high-temperature operation with high energy densities, can be miniaturized, and has a long lifespan.5 Current capacitor technol ogy, 2.5 micron biaxially oriented polypropylene films, has a low energy density and falls far short of temperature requirements of modern power electronics. Zhu and his team investigated several polymer candidates, but none had the right char acteristics.
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Pandemic Recovery Challenges Chong asked panelists what is needed to facilitate post-COVID-19 recovery. Marren answered that recovery will take two forms: sharing overall best practices and advancing strategies for in-person workforce development.
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Chong asked Walton what strategies she has used for cross-institution collabo ration, especially in light of the challenges of remote interaction such as "Zoom fatigue." Walton replied that the online event platform Gatherly and virtual reality approaches have worked well, and her team is actively seeking more engaging, game-like systems to facilitate relationships and support collaboration. Marren added that UCAH is also testing virtual reality tools to replace some in-person training.
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