About IMR
The Institute for Materials Research (IMR) is the gateway to materials-allied research at The Ohio State University.
IMR is a campus-wide, multidisciplinary institute that works with OSU colleges and departments to augment and synergistically advance their goals. IMR facilitates, promotes and coordinates research activities and infrastructure related to the science and engineering of materials throughout The Ohio State University.
Research: News in Engineering’s Fall 2008 issue focused on research from OSU’s materials community
Vision
A multidisciplinary research institute that propels OSU to the recognized international forefront of materials-allied research and scholarship.
Mission
To nurture, grow and support research groups leading to small, large and center-level awards; to provide strategic planning, resources, infrastructure, and educational/outreach activities; to coordinate, support and assist with management of campus-wide materials-allied research and related resources.
Signature Areas
- Materials in Alternative and Sustainable Energy and Power
- Materials and the Environment
- Biological Materials, Tissue Engineering, and Medicine
- Nanoelectronics and Nanophotonics
- Multiscale Modeling and Computational Materials Science
- Multifunctional Electronic, Magnetic and Molecular Materials
- Sensor Materials – chemical, biological, electromagnetic
- Polymer Nanomaterials and Nanobiotechnology