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8 Chemical Sciences Division
8 Chemical Sciences Division
Pages 64-72
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REACTIVE CHEMICAL SYSTEMS PROGRAM Overall Scientific Quality and Degree of Innovation The Reactive Chemical Systems Program supports three Army functional concepts: to understand chemical mechanisms for sustainment and maneuver support, to explore new materials for maneuver support and mission command, and to discover new materials and properties for sustainment. The research objectives of the program are (1)
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Strategies to strengthen and invest in promising thrust areas while decreasing support or even removing areas of limited interest to the scientific community would help focus the program's efforts. Significant Accomplishments The accomplishments described in the report ARO in Review 2018 represent significant scientific advances.2 It is noteworthy that a diverse set of investigators at varying career stages were involved in that work.
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ELECTROCHEMISTRY PROGRAM Overall Scientific Quality and Degree of Innovation The Electrochemistry Program has three major scientific objectives: (1) to synthesize and characterize new electrolyte species so as to better understand transport in heterogeneous charged environments; (2)
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Accordingly, the five or so significant transitions to other areas of Army research serve as concrete examples of this interest. These transitions include carbon dioxide model, saltinduced protective cathodes, TiO2 transient absorption, synthesis of transition metal dichalcogenide photoelectrodes, and synthesized new block copolymer anion conductive membranes.
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The program manager outlined several examples of innovative endeavors that collectively span the following Army functional concepts: movement and maneuver, fires, maneuver support, intelligence, and sustainment. The highlighted studies of inelastic scattering have the potential to impact multiple scientific domains of programmatic interest (including quantum computing and energetic materials)
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POLYMER CHEMISTRY PROGRAM Overall Scientific Quality and Degree of Innovation The Polymer Chemistry Program supports high-quality, innovative research that is being carried out by excellent PIs. There is a very good mixture of projects that span a wide range of modern polymer science.
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to create polymeric materials that exhibit precise programmed responses to external stimuli. Thus, this program addresses some of the most fundamental needs in polymer chemistry, ranging from the development of synthetic methods capable of controlling polymer chain sequence and catalysts to synthesize stereo-regular polymers from polar monomers, the interfacing of synthetic polymers with biological materials to bring beneficial enzymatic functions into nonnatural contexts, and the development of controlled polymerization and depolymerization methods.
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The second is a single investigator project that synthesized random heteropolymers composed of four types of monomer subunits, each with chemical properties designed to interact with chemical patches on the surface of proteins of interest. The heteropolymers interact favorably with protein surfaces, and co-assemble with the protein to maintain correct protein folding and stability outside of the cell and in nonnatural environments.
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Some notable examples of impactful science funded by this division include the following: the development of melt-castable highly energetic materials made by co-crystallization; the design of self-regulating liquid crystals triggered by motile bacteria; the combinatorial synthesis and discovery of electrochemically active Perovskite materials; and the stabilization of biological materials using novel designer-polymer coatings based on mapping of hydrophobic/hydrophilic regions on a targeted protein. The Chemical Sciences Division programs fund topics of national relevance that also are important to other funding agencies (e.g., for the development of catalysts, batteries, fuel cells, smart materials, and sensors)
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