NASA will fund the
program for which you will be competitively selected eight-developed proposals
for research on how complex fluids and macromolecules behave in microgravity.
Experiments in this research will be conducted aboard the International Space
Station.
These experiments and
research should be the basis on which NASA scientists and engineers will need
to find solution to the problems facing man in space,
and as they will have to
find a new application of knowledge for practical uses on Earth. All of this
work will be called: "The study of complex fluids and high-molecular
compounds in biophysics."
Proposals will be
selected works from the collection of the eight institutions in six states.
Project on these proposals will receive funding for a total of approximately $
5.9 million over five years. Experiments on the selected works will begin
immediately.
Four selected studies
will need to include information on the colloidal systems. Applications of this
study should include such areas as liquid crystals, dyes and petrochemicals.
The other four selected
proposals must include the study of biological macromolecules, such as
proteins. This research will help scientists to determine the mechanisms
associated with the mass transfer, and the formation, growth of the solid phase
and the molecular structure of a number of biological macromolecules.
Understanding the
structure of these macromolecules may help researchers to understand and
neurodegenerative diseases may lead to development of new drugs.
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