The Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) between three Atlanta University Center (AUC) schools and the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) integrates research, education, and student-mentoring in order to increase the number of underrepresented students pursuing graduate degrees and to increase their overall participation in the field of materials science and engineering. The three AUC schools are Clark Atlanta University (CAU), Morehouse College (MC), and Spelman College (SC). The partner MRSEC is "The Georgia Tech Laboratory for New Electronic Materials" in which fundamental materials properties and synthesis of epitaxial graphene are being investigated.

Graphene is a new electronic material that is poised to be the successor to silicon. Bringing epitaxial graphene to the level of a technologically relevant material depends upon fundamental research, innovation and improved methodologies to understand and control the structure and properties of this novel material. Key features of the partnership include: (1) establishing research collaboration between AUC and GT faculty, postdoctoral associates, and graduate students; (2) strengthening the research and education infrastructure of AUC; (3) providing research opportunities for AUC undergraduates during the academic year; (4) providing summer research experiences for AUC students at GT through the collaborative research program; and (5) developing and hosting summer research institutes for high school teachers.

The research effort involves both experimental characterizations of epitaxially grown graphene and simulation studies of the electronic structures of graphene-related nanodevices. The broader impact of this program will be a significant enhancement of the infrastructure of AUC for materials research, education, and technology transfer; equally significant is the likely, long-term, sustainable, synergistic impact on the GT diversity programs in science and engineering. The high school teachers program is designed to better-prepare and motivate high school students from metro Atlanta to major in science or engineering upon entering college. Since the student population of AUC is predominantly African American, the undergraduate student activities will establish a pipeline of well-prepared and motivated undergraduate African American students who will pursue graduate studies in materials science and engineering at GT or other research universities.

Introduction

The Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) between three Atlanta University Center (AUC) schools and the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) integrates research, education, and student-mentoring in order to increase the number of underrepresented students pursuing graduate degrees and to increase their overall participation in the field of materials science and engineering. The three AUC schools are Clark Atlanta University (CAU), Morehouse College (MC), and Spelman College (SC). The partner MRSEC is "The Georgia Tech Laboratory for New Electronic Materials" in which fundamental materials properties and synthesis of epitaxial graphene are being investigated.

Graphene is a new electronic material that is poised to be the successor to silicon. Bringing epitaxial graphene to the level of a technologically relevant material depends upon fundamental research, innovation and improved methodologies to understand and control the structure and properties of this novel material. Key features of the partnership include: (1) establishing research collaboration between AUC and GT faculty, postdoctoral associates, and graduate students; (2) strengthening the research and education infrastructure of AUC; (3) providing research opportunities for AUC undergraduates during the academic year; (4) providing summer research experiences for AUC students at GT through the collaborative research program; and (5) developing and hosting summer research institutes for high school teachers.

The research effort involves both experimental characterizations of epitaxially grown graphene and simulation studies of the electronic structures of graphene-related nanodevices. The broader impact of this program will be a significant enhancement of the infrastructure of AUC for materials research, education, and technology transfer; equally significant is the likely, long-term, sustainable, synergistic impact on the GT diversity programs in science and engineering. The high school teachers program is designed to better-prepare and motivate high school students from metro Atlanta to major in science or engineering upon entering college. Since the student population of AUC is predominantly African American, the undergraduate student activities will establish a pipeline of well-prepared and motivated undergraduate African American students who will pursue graduate studies in materials science and engineering at GT or other research universities.

Highlights

Twistin' the Boat Away

The Coalition of Research and Education in Materials received award from National Science Foundation under the Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program (Grant No. DMR-0934142).

One of recent published articles that acknowledge NSF PREM support was cited by ACS as major research news on the ACS portal front page December 1-14, 2009.

The work was published at ACS Nano.

Duminda K. Samarakoon and Xiao-Qian Wang, "Chair and twisted boat membranes in hydrogenated graphene", ACS Nano, 2009, 3, 4017-4022. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/nn901317d

Partner Institutions

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Publications

Publications that acknowledge support from the NSF PREM (Grant No. DMR-0934142)

2009

1. Duminda K. Samarakoon and Xiao-Qian Wang, "Chair and twisted boat membranes in hydrogenated graphene", ACS Nano 3, 4017-4022 (2009). Published

2010

1. Olayinka O. Ogunro, Kayode Karunwi, Ishrat M. Khan and Xiao-Qian Wang, "Chiral Asymmetry of Helical Polymer Nanowires", J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1, 704-707 (2010). Published

2. W. Yi, A. Malkovskiy, Y. Xu, X.-Q. Wang, A. P. Sokolov, M. Lebron-Colon, M. A. Meador, and Y. Pang, "Polymer conformation-assisted wrapping of single-walled carbon nanotube: The impact of cis-vinylene linkage", Polymer 51,475-481 (2010). Published

3. Kelvin Suggs and Xiao-Qian Wang, "Structural and electronic properties of carbon nanotube-reinforced epoxy resins", Nanoscale, DOI: 10.1039/b9nr00306a (2010). ASAP Published

Positions

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Faculty

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Reports

Guidelines for PREM Annual Report (FY2006)

Guidelines for PREM Annual Report (FY2010)

These guidelines were developed to provide a uniform reporting structure for the Partnerships in Research and Education in Materials (PREM) annual reports and to provide the NSF with useful data to monitor the health and success of the program.� Please focus on the development of students and new opportunities for both students and faculty.

Annual progress reports are due at the NSF 90 days before the anniversary date of the PREM award. �The annual report must be submitted through the annual report option of NSF FastLane.� Please prepare the annual report as a single Adobe PDF document using the headings, instructions, and tables provided within.� Upload the PDF in the Findings field of FastLane.� You will need to enter the PI name under the senior personnel menu, however, there is no need to complete the individual sections of the standard on-line annual report template.� Should you experience trouble in submitting the annual report as a single PDF file, contact the FastLane Helpdesk at 1-800-673-6188.

Significant changes from 2009 Annual Report Guidelines:

List of Current PREM Participant expanded to further delineate those receiving support and those affiliated.
Postdoctoral Mentoring added to the Education Section.
Diversity Statistics Table updated to make it clear that �total� denotes all participants, regardless of race or ethnicity.
Disabled category added to the Diversity Statistics Tables.
Section added (Successful Proposals Awarded as a Result of the PREM) to capture leverage of the PREM award.

PREM Program

Annual Progress Report Guidelines

1.� Executive Summary (maximum 2 pages)

Vision statement (1-2 sentences)
Key Accomplishments of the this reporting period in terms of

A) Intellectual Merit

B) Broader Impacts

Describe the PREM�s response to any site visit and external advisory committee recommendations.
Finally, comment on any long-range plans, change in priorities and key personnel, new directions, or other unusual circumstances that are pertinent for the continuations of this award.

2.� Lists of Current PREM Participants including their names and academic department in the following categories (Note, do not include people that recently left the PREM.� They are reported in the �graduated� section of the report):

Faculty receiving support (faculty salary, student or post-doc support)
Faculty affiliated (participating in PREM, but not receiving support)
Faculty at Partner Institution receiving support
Faculty affiliated at Partner Institution
Post-docs receiving support
Post-docs affiliated
Graduate students receiving support
Graduate students affiliated
Undergraduates receiving support
Undergraduates affiliated
Others receiving support, please specify
Others affiliated

Indicate at the end of each participant list the total number of women, and underrepresented minorities in science in the following categories: Hispanic, African American, Native American, and Pacific Islanders.� �Except for undergraduates, please report two sets of numbers following each participant list:

(1) All URM* (irrespective of Visa / Citizenship status), and

(2) US URM (Those who are US citizens or Permanent Resident Aliens).

To protect the privacy of individuals we collect aggregate data on under represented minorities.� Please do not indicate the gender or minority status of individuals.�

* URM = Under-Represented Minorities in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). For information on which ethnic and minority groups constitute URMs, see for example: http://www.nsf.gov/od/broadeningparticipation/nsf_frameworkforaction_0808.pdf

3.� Research Accomplishments and Plans (limit 5 pages)

Discuss the results of ongoing research projects. Organize the projects under the major tasks or research thrusts originally proposed.� Include:

- a statement of the objective of the research project

- the names of the faculty and students involved in each project

- a description of the role of the partner institution

- a description of the research performed and the most significant results obtained

- research plans for the coming year.

4. Education (limit 5 pages)

Discuss the education projects (course development, REU, etc.).� Include:

- a statement of the objective of the education project

- the names of the faculty and students involved in each project

- a description of the role of the partner institution

- a description of the significant results obtained

- education plans for the coming year

- For PREMs that support Postdoctoral Researchers, describe the current PREM-wide Postdoctoral mentoring activities and planned activities for future years, see NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG), NSF 10-1.

�� http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf10_1/nsf10_1.pdf

5.� Tables of PREM Graduates

Please provide cumulative Tables of students that have �graduated� from the PREM program with the format below.� Create one Table for each academic level of your PREM program (post-doc, graduate student, undergraduate), as appropriate.� Order entries by the year of graduation with the latest year at the top.� Indicate graduates in this reporting period in bold face and graduates in previous reporting periods in regular type.� Update the career path of graduates from previous years if known.�

Cumulative Table of Undergraduates who have graduated from PREM

Year Graduated	Name	Number of years in PREM	Where are they today?
2009	Anne Student	2	Graduate School, ChemE, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison
2008	John Grad	1	industry
2007	Joan Teacher	1	High School Teacher
2006	Tom Smith	1	Graduate School, Mech. Eng., Carnegie Mellon

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Cumulative Table of Graduate Students who have graduated from PREM

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Cumulative Table of Post-docs who have graduated from PREM

Complete the following two Diversity Statistics Tables.�� Indicate the total number of graduates in this reporting period and cumulatively, regardless of race or ethnicity.� Also indicate the total number that are women, that are from under represented minority groups in science, and those that are disabled.� Please report two numbers for post-docs and graduate students: All URM and US URM as defined in Item 2 above.

Diversity Statistics for those students and post-docs that have graduated during the

Current Reporting Period.

All Under represented Minorities (US and Non-Us Citizenship)

US Citizens and Permanent Residents only Under represented Minorities

Total

Women

Disabled

AA

His

NA

PI

O

AA

His

NA

PI

O

Post-docs

Grad Students

Undergraduates

K-12 students

K-12 teachers

Codes:

AA:� African American

His:� Hispanic

NA:� Native American

PI:� ��Pacific Islander

O:�� Other

�

Cumulative Diversity Statistics for all students and post-docs that have graduated from the PREM.

All Under represented Minorities (US and Non-Us Citizenship)

US Citizens and Permanent Residents only Under represented Minorities

Total

Women

Disabled

AA

His

NA

PI

O

AA

His

NA

PI

O

Post-docs

Grad Students

Undergraduates

K-12 students

K-12 teachers

Codes:

AA:� African American

His:� Hispanic

NA:� Native American

PI:� ��Pacific Islander

O:�� Other

6.� List of Publications

List work actually published in this reporting period resulting from PREM support.� Do not include submitted or accepted papers. �Indicate PREM faculty in bold face and post-docs, graduate students, and undergraduate students in underline.� List patents, if appropriate, and indicate whether a patent is in pending, granted or licensed.�

7. List of Presentations

� List of oral presentation and posters resulting from PREM support.� Indicate PREM faculty in bold face and post-docs, graduate students, and undergraduate students in underline.�

Complete the following table showing the numbers of Publications, Presentations and Patents (if any).

OUTPUT TABLE

*Designation*	*Number* *Current Year*	*Cumulative Totals for this Award*
*All Publications from PREM support*
Publications with students/postdocs as co-authors

*All Presentations from PREM support*
Presentations with students/postdocs as co-authors

*Patents*		��
Awarded
Pending
Licensed

8. Highlights:� Research and Education Highlights are a crisp one page summary of a recent significant result with an interesting and informative image highlighting your NSF funded work.� Include a title, list of authors with affiliation(s), an appropriate color image (avoid graphs), and an acknowledgement of support with award number(s) for each Highlight.� We plan to use these Highlights to illustrate the work that PREM supports. They might be used in NSF documents and presentations or posted on NSF and MRSEC.org web pages, for example. The text and graphics should capture the essence of the activity you wish to highlight. The graphics are particularly important and can include images or photographs. The text and graphics should be at the level of a press release, explaining briefly and in non-technical language what has been accomplished and why it is significant.� Please include a technical description of the work in the notes section of the PowerPoint slide.�

PREM Highlights will be made available to the public on the Division of Materials Research website and in CD format. By sending us a Highlight you grant NSF the right to reproduce and disseminate your images for various possible uses. If you are planning to patent your work it is your responsibility to consult with the appropriate person at your institution to ensure that sending us the requested material does not jeopardize your intellectual property rights.�

� Prepare all highlights in MS PowerPoint format �and send them to mrsec@nsf.gov.� One highlight per file, using the following file name:� �University� PREM �award number�� highlight title.��

� Please post two of the above highlights (the best two) on the mrsec.org website coincident with the submission of this annual report.� This can be done directly or by sending the highlights to webmaster@mrsec.org.

� Add Highlights to your website.

9. Budget

a. Statement of anticipated unobligated funds at the end of the current fiscal year.� If the unobligated funds are greater than 20% of the annual increment, please provide a justification of why previously received funds have not been spent.

b. Prepare two sets of NSF Budgets (Form 1030), the first for the current fiscal year (funds spent and obligated) and the second for the coming fiscal year.

c. Complete the following table showing the allocation of funds.

Note: Funds for graduate student / postdoc support are reported 100% in Research Category.

*Designation*	$K *Current award period*	*% of total budget*	$K *Next* *award period*	*% of total budget*
Research
Education Activities
Equipment
PREM Administration

Total		100		100

10. �Successful Proposals as a Direct Result of PREM Funding (> $50K/year).

PI Name, Proposal Title

Agency or Organization

(incl. NSF)

Award Duration

Award Start Date

$K

Total

award amount

11. Miscellaneous

Include any significant additional information that isn�t captured in the sections above.

� Honors and Awards

� Assessments or Reports

� Etc.

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2009

Anne Student

2008

John Grad

2007

Joan Teacher

2006

Tom Smith

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