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NSF Grants 糖心Vlog传媒LR Chemist $150,000

Dr. Brian C. Berry, assistant professor of organic chemistry at 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 College of Science and Mathematics, has received a National Science Foundation grant of $150,000 over three years to help develop what could be the next generation of memory storage media. The goal of the project is to understand the fundamentals of a process known as cold zone annealing, a process developed during Berry鈥檚 post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In metallurgy and materials science, annealing is a heat treatment in which a material is altered, causing changes in its properties such as strength and hardness. 鈥淐old zoning annealing is an efficient method for creating highly ordered self-assembled nanostructures from block copolymers,鈥� Berry said. 鈥淭hese nanostructures can then be used to create high density memory storage media, functional photonic materials, or other materials which will enable next generation technologies.鈥� Berry is working in collaboration with Dr. Alamgir Karim in the College of Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Akron. The total project award is $450,000 over three years.