Students

2009 IMR Materials Week brought together over 250 attendees, including representatives from 14 different universities and 12  industry collaborators.

The ending to this exciting week of shared discoveries was a luncheon where we announced the six winners of this year’s “Best Student Poster Award.”  The award winners were selected from 2 different poster sessions, a Materials Research Student Poster Session and the Center for Emergent Materials Student Poster Session.

2009 IMR Materials Week Poster Session Award Winners:

***Tengfei Jiang, Toward Site Specific Stamping of Graphene
Co -Authors: Dongsheng Li, Siddarth Rajan, Wolfgang Windl
Advisor: Nitin Padture
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
 

Hyunkyu Choi, Characterization of Doped LaFe O3 Oxygen Reduction Catalysts
Co-Authors: Nandita Lakshminarayanan, John Kuhn
Advisor: Umit S. Ozkan
Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
 

Inhee Lee, Ferromagnetic Resonance Imaging Using a Submicron Localized Spin Wave Mode
Co-Authors: Yuri Obukhov, Gang Xiang, Adam Hauser, Fengyuan Yang, Palash Banerjee, Denis Pelekhov
Advisor: P. Chris Hammel
Department: Physics
 

**Adam Hauser, Magnetic and Structural Properties of Half-Metallic Sr2FeMoO6 Epitaxial Films Fabricated by Ultra-High Vacuum Sputtering
Co-Authors: R. A. Ricciardo, T. Meyer, A. Genc, P. M. Woodward, H. L. Fraser
Advisor: Fengyuan Yang
Deparment: Physics
 

**Donghun Lee, STM Studies of an Atomic-Scale Gate Electrode Formed by a Single Charged Vacancy in GaAs
Advisor: Jay Gupta
Department: Physics
 

**Rebecca Ricciardo, Chemical, Magnetic and Orbital Order in the substituted Double Perovskite Sr(1-x)Ca(x)Mn0.5Ru0.5O3
Advisor: Patrick M. Woodward
Department: Chemistry

** These students represent the award winners from the Center for Emergent Materials

We look forward to having you join us at IMR Materials Week next year!

IMR announces the availability of new office space in its IMR West Campus office located in the Science Village building at 1318 Kinnear Road. IMR is making available over two dozen new office cubicles to IMR members and their research groups. These dedicated workspaces are fully-equipped cubicles with centralized printing, copying, fax and wireless internet services. The office suite also has a lounge area and a kitchen. We are pleased to offer these cubicles free of charge to IMR members and their staff and students on a first-come-first-served basis.

With the coming major equipment acquisitions added to the already significant facilities and resources available at Nanotech West Laboratory, this service is intended to further improve connectivity with West Campus research facilities. Office space at IMR West Campus is also available to industry users of Nanotech West equipment, on a monthly fee basis.

The suite is also the new home to two IMR Members of Technical Staff – Dr. John Carlin, a Research Scientist supporting PVIC and related research, and Senior Research Associate Aimee Bross, who continues to operate the Leica EBL system.

We invite you to tour the IMR West Campus office space and the laboratories available to OSU and industry researchers at Nanotech West. To inquire about availability of these dedicated workspaces or to schedule a tour, contact Layla Manganaro (manganaro.4@osu.edu or 247-4685).

To further improve connectivity between campus and Nanotech West Lab, the IMR also provides a free passenger shuttle with six round-trips each weekday. In the six months that IMR has offered this shuttle service, we’ve seen a significant demand with monthly ridership continuing to grow to over 120 passengers per month. We anticipate a marked increase in 2008 to coincide with the EBL system move and upcoming new equipment acquisitions at Nanotech West Laboratory.

Learn more about the IMR shuttle, the shuttle schedule, and Nanotech West Lab facilities.

The Institute for Materials Research helped 38 OSU students to attend the 3rd Ohio Nanotechnology Summit on April 24 and 25, 2007 in Akron. These students presented their research posters at the Summit and attended important workshops and seminars regarding advances in nanotechnology. IMR paid for the students’ registration fees and lodging to facilitate their participation in this valuable conference. We are particularly proud of the wide range of academic fields represented by the IMR-sponsored students, who came from 13 different departments in 4 OSU colleges.

Total IMR-sponsored students: 38

Student Status

• Doctoral students: 11
• Graduate students: 25
• Undergraduate students: 2

Students’ Main Academic Departments

• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: 8
• Biomedical Engineering: 6
• Chemistry: 4
• Electrical Engineering: 3
• Industrial, Welding & Systems Engineering: 3
• Material Science and Engineering: 3
• Mechanical Engineering: 3
• Biophysics: 2
• Electrical and Computer Engineering: 2
• Aerospace Engineering: 1
• Astronomy: 1
• Business Administration: 1
• Physics: 1

The OSU Institute for Materials Research (IMR) will provide support for up to 40 OSU students to attend and present their posters at this year’s Ohio Nanotechnology Summit.

This annual event is the premier nanotechnology event in Ohio, drawing both national and local leaders in nanotechnology. Attendance at this conference offers students the opportunity to network with potential employers and learn the latest in nano research from national leaders.

The 2007 Ohio Nanotechnology Summit will be held April 24 and 25, 2007 in Akron at the John S. Knight Convention Center. The IMR and the Office of Research will be major sponsors of this year’s event, jointly serving as a Summit Benefactor as part of our ongoing effort to support materials-related research in the OSU community.

The first 40 students to submit a request for IMR sponsorship will have their registration fees and one night hotel paid by IMR. All OSU students are eligible; sponsored students must participate in the poster display sessions.

For more information about participation in this opportunity, please contact Layla Manganaro, IMR Program Manager, at manganaro.4@osu.edu or 247-4685.

Visit the Ohio Nanotechnology Summit’s website at www.ohionanosummit.net

A paid summer research internship in science, engineering and public policy is available, sponsored by the Oak Ridge Center for Advanced Studies (ORCAS). ORCAS has defined the following summer 2007 program topics:

• Nanotechnology applications and implications
• Climate modeling for regional decision making
• Energy technologies and policies
• The American landscape: Changes in land use, population, and housing

The deadline for applications is March 2, 2007. For more information about the ORCAS internship program, visit: http://orcas.orau.org/internships/overview.htm