Announcing Spring 2024 Kickstart Facility Grant Request for Proposals:
The Ohio State University Institute for Materials and Manufacturing Research invites proposals to its Kickstart Facility
Grant Program. IMR Kickstart Facility Grants make shared campus research facilities more accessible to demonstrate
materials-related research results with the goal of strengthening near-term research proposals for external support.
Preference is given to research conducted in one of IMR’s core materials research facilities, including:
■ Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence (CDME)
■ Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis (CEMAS)
■ Nanosystems Laboratory (NSL)
■ Nanotech West Laboratory (NTW)
■ Semiconductor Epitaxy and Analysis Laboratory (SEAL)
■ AFM Core Facility in Scott Laboratory W374B
Each Kickstart Facility Grant provides $2,500.00 to offset the cost of user fees and access fees associated with
participating facilities.
Key Dates:
■ Request for Proposals Release: Monday, April 8, 2024
■ Submission Deadline: Friday, April 26, 2024 at 5:00 PM
■ Submit your application as an email attachment in PDF format to Joanna Gardner,
IMR Proposal Development Specialist, at gardner.306@osu.edu .
■ Anticipated Award Announcements: Friday, May 3, 2024
■ Anticipated Award Start Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Downloads:
Kickstart Facility Grants Spring 2024 — Request for Proposals
Kickstart Facility Grant Program Spring 2024 — Proposal Form
Contact Information:
Potential applicants may contact Joanna Gardner, IMR Proposal Development Specialist, at (gardner.306@osu.edu) with any administrative or procedural questions. Contact IMR Executive Director Steven Ringel (ringel.5@osu.edu) with technical questions related to potential research activities.
Autumn 2023 – Awarded Projects
Enzymatic Nanofungicide as an Innovative Food Packaging Biomaterial
– David Wood, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Role of extracellular vesicles on prospective vasculogenic cell therapies for Alzheimer’s Disease
– Diego F Alzate Correa (Post Doc), Biomedical Engineering
Unrevealing the Structure-Performance Interrelationship of A Class of HydrogelBased, Electro-Responsive Interface for Precise Chemical Release
– Jinghua Li, Materials Science and Engineering
Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Complex Oxides with Large Spin-Orbit Coupling
– Kaveh Ahadi, Materials Science and Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering
Non-contact, Non-destructive, Wafer-level Evaluation of Surface Properties in Antimonide Based Nanowires
– Punam Murkute (Post Doc), Electrical and Computer Engineering
Operando Insights into WSe2 Catalysis for CO2 Reduction
– Salva Salmani-Rezaie, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Investigating Optical Properties of Ar intercalated Low-Defect h-BN by Cathodoluminescence
– Shamsul Arafin , Electrical and Computer Engineering
Culinary Castoffs to Cutting-Edge Bio-Composites: Upcycling and Valueaddition of Cooking Waste into Sustainable, High-Performance Biodegradable Epoxy Thermosets, a Sustainability Pathway Toward a NetZero Future
– Sriloy Dey (Senior Research Associate), Food Science and Technology
Photophysical Properties of Cu-Doped Nanoceria: Role of Cu2+-Mediated sub-bandgap states on photocatalytic properties of nanoceria
– Supriya Ghosh (Post Doc), Chemistry and Biochemistry
Visualization and Characterization of Bacterial Extracellular Vesicles used to Mediate the Sensitization of Phage-Resistant Strains
– Tatiana Cuellar-Gaviria (Post Doc), Biomedical Engineering
Topological dipole lattices in geometrically confined nematic liquid crystals
– Xiaoguang (William) Wang, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Previous IMR Facility Grant Award Recipients
Lists of all previously awarded IMR Facility Grants are provided for reference in the links below.
- FY2020 Kickstart Facility Grant Awards
- FY2019 Kickstart Facility Grant Awards
- Spring 2018 Facility Grant Awards
- Winter 2016 Facility Grant Awards
- Spring 2016 Facility Grant Awards
- Winter 2016 Facility Grant Awards
- Spring 2015 Facility Grant Awards
- Winter 2015 Facility Grant Awards
- Spring 2014 Facility Grant Awards
- Fall 2013 Facility Grant Awards
- Spring 2013 Facility Grant Awards
- Winter 2012 Facility Grant Awards
- Spring 2012 Facility Grant Awards
- Fall 2011 Facility Grant Awards
- Spring 2011 Facility Grant Awards
- Fall 2010 Facility Grant Awards
- Spring 2010 Facility Grant Award Recipients
- Fall 2009 Facility Grant Award Recipients
- Spring 2009 Facility Grant Award Recipients
- Winter 2009 Facility Grant Award Recipients
- 2008 Facility Grant Award Recipients
- 2007 Facility Grant Award Recipients