小宇宙爆发：本小组获得三星 GRO 项目奖！ 刚刚登陆三星 GRO 网站（ http://www.sait.samsung.co.kr/eng/GROhome/gromain.jsp ），发现本小组的项目赫然在列，不仅内心一阵狂喜！难道真是人品爆发啦？！ Energy Enhancing Bandwidth of PEH via a Flexible Structure Coupled with Magnetic Field Auburn University Low-frequency Ultra-wide Bandwidth Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Design, Simulation and Fabrication of A Spiral-Shaped Multi-mass PVDF Cantilever Peking University Heterogeneous Layered Structured Materials for High Energy and Power Density of Lithium Battery University of Michigan 平静下来，仔细想想，这个项目的获得还是很有些东西值得玩味，首先，这是一个很开放的项目，设定了一些题目和范围但是没有具体的要求，发布到全世界，大家仁者见仁、智者见智都可以提出自己的解决方案，我们感兴趣是因为今年其中的一个题目（压电能量采集）跟目前我们做的内容很相近，有一定的研究基础，而它提出的问题也是我们急需解决的问题和难题，为什么不试试？我看到项目征集通知后就立即召集学生开会，讨论可能的解决方案，因为很有难度，所以当时大家争论的很激烈，基本采取思路要我们研究基础相一致的路线，不可能一下子转到其他不熟悉的方面去，更何况我们前面积累的基础还是很好的。 接下来，那就是要怎样解决这些瓶颈问题，哪个方案有希望解决这个问题而且可行？我们只能看到山顶上的目标，可是没有路，必须自己找路，能借助的就是自己所知道和拥有的镰刀斧头（做前面项目中已经掌握的方法），尽管这个队伍里有博士生、硕士生还有本科毕业设计的学生，可是面对这个挑战，大家都很兴奋、不分彼此、各显神通，我们在纸上画草图、争论，那叫一个意气风发！也是真的头脑风暴，每个人的小宇宙开始爆发！这样激烈的讨论下来，一个初步的结构出来了，各自回去做自己能做的工作并查找资料，下次再讨论的时候就拿着计算的结果来了，还行，这个新颖的结构设计终于得到了大家的一致认同，可是加工方法比较难，我们没有条件，我说我们先做个基本的试验试试吧，正好刚认识的一位老师是做这方面的，我就给他打电话说：“老兄，你知不知道哪里可以做 ***** 事？”也是凑巧，他说：“一个专门做这事的就在我这里呢，你跟他说！”就这样，学生立即就送样品过去，对方第二天就给我们拿回来了结果，很不错，可行！当然接下来就做了一系列的计算和基础试验，我们的申请书也就基本成型了！由于是英文的申请书，还需要多加些功夫，反复地讨论和修改了几次，终于按时提交了上去（一个本科设计的学生负责搞定的，他现在读我的直博）！ 很好，我们第一次正式独立申请国际项目之旅就这样顺利起航了！这次申请，我是抱着锻炼队伍的心态，给自己一次机会去的，所以也无所谓抱多大希望。就接着忙活别的去了。 7 月下旬的时候接到三星中国的一个来信：“项目初评结果出来了， 总部对您的 GRO 的项目的疑惑在您提的 energy harvester 的材料和结构与目前我们总部的研究兴趣不是特别吻合，所以希望您能写一段文字来说明一下您的 proposal 进行的必要性和创新性，也算是写一个简短的 defense 吧，希望能够改变总部的想法。”真的，看来我们的项目方案还有有一定的吸引力的， defense 怕什么？正好是我们证明自己的机会，于是就和学生商量了下，写了简明扼要的一个 defense 发了过去，不免暗自有些激动，心中开始有所期待！ 没想到，今天再看网站，哈哈，原来我们的 defense 真的打动了评委！我们获得了资助，这可是我们小组获得的第一笔从国外研究机构来的经费呀！格外兴奋，也要格外珍惜这个机会，因为，看看那个获奖名单上列的高校吧：哈佛、斯坦福、牛津、 MIT 、 UCBerkeley 、 U. Michigan…… 都是顶尖的团队呀，现在是方案 PK ，我们靠着团队的智慧和头脑风暴赢下了这一阵，可是明年就是结果 PK 啦，那时候，如果做得不够好，会死的很难看的！所以，亲爱的同学们，从今天起，我们必须开足马力、全力以赴，告诉自己：必须做出个样子来，让我们的小宇宙在这个项目的激励下开始爆发，向世界展现我们的才华！ 三星 GRO 项目简介：从 2009 年 起，为鼓励在通讯、能源、生物等热点领域的探索与创新，三星公司设立了 Global Research Outreach （ GRO ）项目，每年会向世界各顶尖学府征集创新性的研究方案，三星公司会选择最具创新性的方案对当前热点问题进行研究，并与相关学院或大学建立合作机制。在严格评审申请项目的创新性、科学性以及社会影响力之后，三星公司会对接收其中较为突出的研究方案并给予资助，资助金额从 5 万美金到 10 万美金不等。 2012 年 GRO 项目包括生物医疗、计算科学、通信、能源、图像传感、新型材料、存储技术、片上系统、电力电子等 15 个领域，共有 71 个研究主题。在经过提交申请、项目初审、终审等环节后，在国际范围内共有来自 MIT 、 UCBerkeley 、哈佛大学、牛津大学、斯坦福大学等世界各地研究院所的 82 个项目得到奖励资助，中国大陆地区共有 3 项入围，分别来自北京大学、中科院青岛研究所和上海交通大学。 2012 GRO Winners 获奖名单 http://www.sait.samsung.co.kr/eng/GROhome/gromain.jsp Theme Proposal University Biomedical Science Engineering (BSE) Real-time THz Imaging for Identification of Malignant vs. Benign Tissue Characteristics and Tumor and Nerve Margins Ohio State University Electromagnetic Detection and Imaging of Liver Metastases from Colorectal Cancer Ohio State University MicroRNAs in Mechanotransduction and Its Utilization in Vascular Stents UC San Diego Exploring Mechanotransductive Signaling as a Therapeutic Target in Brain Cancer UC Berkeley Inducing Functional Changes in Proteins Using THZ Radiation: First Steps Towards Protein Electrodynamics University of Southampton Novel MEMS Drug Delivery Devices University of Texas at Dallas Biotherapeutics Bispecific Antibody Capture of Tumor-Secreted Chemokines MIT De Novo Design of Repeat Proteins as Non-antibody Protein Scaffolds UNC Chapel Hill Chemoenzymatic Site-Selective Attachment to Antibodies: Using Glycosylation Sites to Position Drugs University of Oxford Computational Science (R)Evolutionary High-Throughput Discovery and Optimization of Materials Enhanced Technologies Central Michigan University Atomic-Scale Modeling of Defect-Mediated Device Degradation Vanderbilt University SmartApps: Smart Applications for Multicores Texas AM University Generation of Parallel Patterns based programs for hybrid CPU-GPU architectures University of Bordeaux Network Inference and Optimization with Statistical Physics methods (NETSTAT) University of Thessaly Leveraging Bipartite Networks to Investigate the Dynamical Properties of Socio-technical Systems IIT Kharagpur Modeling of nanoelectronic and nanoelectromechanical systems based on graphene Institute of Spectroscopy Russian Academy of Sciences Fast Low Cost Methods to Learn Structure of Large Networks King’s College London Connectivity An Optimized Solution Toward Green Mobile Cloud Computing UCLA Practical Concatenated Polar Coding UC San Diego FTN Signaling Combined with Concatenated LDPC Coding for Bandwidth-efficient Data Transmission Lund University Performance Limits of Cloud based Wireless Networks IIT Hyderabad Generalized Concatenated Polar Codes Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University Enabling AGN Near-Capacity Polar Codes with Good Error Performance through Lattices and Concatenated Nested Coding UT Austin Ultra-high Data Rate Pptical Wireless: towards the All-optical Network University of Oxford Energy Enhancing Bandwidth of PEH via a Flexible Structure Coupled with Magnetic Field Auburn University Low-frequency Ultra-wide Bandwidth Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Design, Simulation and Fabrication of A Spiral-Shaped Multi-mass PVDF Cantilever Peking University Heterogeneous Layered Structured Materials for High Energy and Power Density of Lithium Battery University of Michigan Image Sensor Polarization Enhanced Image Sensor for Endoscopy Washington University in St. Louis Medical Technology, Imaging, 3D Modeling, Device, Graphic, etc. Fractal RF Coils for MRI UC Irvine Patient-Specific Simulations of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Adaptation: New Approaches to Predict Therapeutic Responses UC San Diego Development of Tunable Terahertz Source for Nonlinear 2D THZ Spectroscopy of Biomedical Samples MIT A novel shear wave approach to non-invasively assess mechanical properties of liver for early diagnosis and 3D organ modeling University of Pittsburgh MRI-Safe Robot for Direct Image-Guided Percutaneous Interventions Johns Hopkins University All-optical High-resolution Photoacoustic Endoscopy University of Michigan Volumetric Rendering and 3D UI for Medical Applications to Achieve mHealth SUNY Stony Brook MobileX: Imaging Skin, Blood and Retina via Computational Photography on a Smartphone Rice University Tissue Characterizing Female Breast Tomography using Ultrasound Friedrich Alexander University Silica Nanoshells for Tumor Localization and HIFU UC San Diego Non-Invasive High Resolution Near-Infrared Imaging for Hemodynamics Monitoring and Tumor Detection Delft University of Technology Combined Laser Ultrasonic and Optoacoustic Imaging System for Biological Tissue Institute on Laser and Information Technologies RAS Metabolic Engineering High-Accuracy Integration of Transcriptomics and Metabolic Modeling with Application to the Metabolic Engineering of Escherichia coli Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey A Synthetic, Combinatorial Approach to Identify Yeast Gene Knockdown Targets for Metabolic Engineering Applications UT Austin Novel Screening Method for Finding Aerobic Aldehyde and Alcohol Dehydrogenases Tampere University of Technology Molecular Mechanisms of Substrate Inhibition of Dehydrogenases University of Toronto Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling and Integrative Analysis of Omics Data: Lessons from S. cerevisiae Chalmers U of Technology New Materials Computational Material Design: Evolutionary Algorithm for Predicting New High Dielectric Materials SUNY Stony Brook Holographic Photopolymerizable Prganic/inorganic Hybrids Cornell University Multifunctional Composites based on Biopolymers and Biobased Additives for Food Packaging Applications University of Perugia Characterising QD (Quantum Dot) Emitters and Lasers Cardiff University Quantum Dot Lasers: Materials Physics to Printable Devices University of Oxford Supermacroporous Hybrid Polymerics for Efficient Removal of Endocrine Disruptors and Other Water Pollutants IIT Kanpur Holographic Photopolymers with High Performances for Display Applications Institute of Organic Chemistry SB RAS Novel Indium ‐ free TCO with Low-Temperature Preparation by Ultraviolet Photo-Annealing University of Michigan Hybrid Ferroelectric-Charge Nonvolatile Memory Cornell University New Memory Redefining DRAM Interface for Future Platforms University of Pittsburgh System-Wide Adaptive Techniques for Robust STT MRAM Integration UT Austin Novel Electronic Devices Based on Coupled Phase Transitions University of Texas at Dallas Next Generation Ics Interconnections Novel Inkjet Printed Ultra broadband Wireless Interconnects between Chips, Modules and Boards operating up to 110GHz Georgia Tech Non-Volatile Magnonic Logic UCLA Precision Lateral Heterojunctions for Atomically Thin Circuitry Cornell University Wireless Chip-to-Chip Interconnects: From Circuits To Systems Purdue University Graphene-enabled Wireless Communications Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Silicon Origami for 3D Interconnect Technology Cornell University III-V-based Nanowire MOSFET and NanoPillar Tunnel FET For Ultra Low-Power Nanoelectronics Penn State University III-V 4D Transistors Purdue University Multiscale Simulation of Charge Transport Properties in Polycrystalline Graphene Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona Physarum chips: A feasibility study on interfacing nano- and macro-worlds via amorphous biological computing substrate University of West of England Radio-Frequency Graphene Integrated Circuits Harvard University Design and Fabrication of Nanosized Logic Gates with the Fluorene Derivative (FD)/DNA Probes and their Application for Detection of ATP and Cocaine Qingdao Institute, CAS High Temperature Processed Thin Film Transistors On Low Temperature Substrates Stanford University Power Electronics Modular Multilevel Motor Drive for Electrical Vehicles Incorporating Battery Charger and Providing Battery Charge Management University of Birmingham Advanced Electric Vehicle Battery Management Systems for Safety and Performance University of Oxford Process Design for Product Development Plasmonic Nanolithography using Hyperbolic Medium for Large Area Nanopatterning University of Michigan A Debugger for Mobile-Cloud Applications UIUC A Critical Evaluation of System-Efficient ESD Design (SEED) UIUC Hygro-thermal Induced Failure Prediction by Using Peridynamics University of Arizona Atomistic Modeling of Strained Group IV Alloys University of Washington UX Next Generation User Interfaces Incorporating Eye Tracking for Smart Portable Electronics University of Pennsylvania Context-Aware Spoken Dialogue Agents for Immersive Interaction in the Real World Carnegie Mellon University Human-Centric User Research to Identify Disruptive Opportunities in Convergent Paper and Digital Use UC Berkeley Users’ Experience and Design Value Research on Paper Use Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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