2010 IMRG Spring Symposia – Tuesday, May 18 and Friday, May 21

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The Institute for Materials Research (IMR) invites you to the 2010 IMRG Spring Symposia, Tuesday, May 18 and Friday, May 21.

This inaugural event showcases the cutting-edge work of select interdisciplinary research teams from OSU’s materials community. The IMRG Spring Symposia will highlight the wide range of materials-allied research taking place on campus, from structural materials to biomedical applications.

The IMRG Spring Symposia event is made up of two symposia, each featuring presentations by 5 research groups previously awarded an IMR Interdisciplinary Materials Research Grant (IMRG) award.  Each 30-minute presentation will include an overview of the research project, detailed research findings, preliminary results, and planned next steps. Each talk will be followed by an open question and answer period.

Come see one presentation or stay for all five! 

All OSU faculty, staff, and students are welcome to join us. Light refreshments will be served.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

12:00 PM – 4:30 PM

E100 Scott Laboratory, 201 West 19th Avenue

 

12:00 PM: Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Solar Conversion Systems

Principal Investigator: Malcolm Chisholm, Chemistry; Co-Investigators: Arthur Epstein; Physics; Paul Berger, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Nitin Padture, Materials Science and Engineering; Terry Gustafson, Chemistry

 12:50 PM: Experimental and Computational Study of ALD-grown Dielectrics on III-Nitrides

Principal Investigator: Siddharth Rajan, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering; Co-Investigator: Wolfgang Windl, Materials Science and Engineering

 1:40 PM: Structure-Property Relationships in Novel Structural Materials

Principal Investigator: Katherine Flores, Materials Science and Engineering

 2:30 PM: Economical Platforms for FET-based Protein Detection to Support Sensor Clinical Translation

Principal Investigator: Stephen C. Lee, Biomedical Engineering; Co-Investigator: Paul Berger, Electrical and Computer Engineering.

 3:20 PM: Use of Electrospun Biomaterials as Carriers of Bone Marrow Derived Stem/Progenitor Cells to Stimulate Tissue Neovascularization

Principal Investigator: Nicanor I. Moldovan, Internal Medicine; Presenter: Mirela Anghelina, Senior Research Associate; Co-Investigator: John J. Lannuti, Materials Science and Engineering.

 

Friday, May 21, 2010

8:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Smith Seminar Room, 1080 Physics Research Building, 191 West Woodruff Avenue

 

8:30 AM: Multi-Scale Characterization of Battery Materials for Improved Performance

Principal Investigator: Sudarsanam Suresh Babu, Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering; Co-Investigators: Bharat Bhushan, Mechanical Engineering; Yann Guezennec, Mechanical Engineering; Giorgio Rizzoni, Mechanical Engineering; Shrikant C. Nagpure (PhD Student), Mechanical Engineering

9:20 AM: Synthesis of III-V Semiconductor Nanowire Heterostructures Using Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition

Principal Investigator: Fengyuan Yang, Physics; Co-Investigators: Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Physics; Roberto C. Myers, Materials Science and Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering

10:10 AM: Metamaterials with Smart Reconfiguration for Broadband RF Antennas

Principal Investigator: Marcelo Dapino, Mechanical Engineering; Co-Investigators: Suresh Babu, Industrial Systems Engineering; John Volakis, Electrical and Computer Engineering.

11:00 AM: Solving the “Contact Problem” of Molecular Electronics via Atomic Layer Deposition

Principal Investigator: Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Physics; Presenter: Patrick Truitt, Postdoctoral Researcher; Co-Investigators: Jonathan Pelz, Physics; Malcolm Chisholm, Chemistry

11:50 AM: Exploring Electrically Tunable Magnetism in Gd-doped Nitride Quantum Structures

Principal Investigator: Roberto C. Myers; Materials Science and Engineering & Electrical Computer Engineering; Co-Investigators: Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Physics; Michael Mills, Materials Science and Engineering