We are pleased to announce that after a thorough internal and external review process, six awards have been made to fund innovative and exciting materials research on campus through the OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program. These awards total $280,000 in internal research funding to 17 OSU researchers in six departments.
Congratulations to the six research teams whose projects were selected this year for seed grant funding. Full abstracts for each of these research projects is available online at the following link:
2013 OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program Awards (PDF with full project abstracts)
2013 Multidisciplinary Team Building Grants
Multidisciplinary Team Building Grants form multidisciplinary materials research teams that can compete effectively for federal block-funding opportunities. Two Multidisciplinary Team Building Grants were awarded this year:
- Towards an Atomic Scale Understanding of CO2 Photocatalysis, Principal Investigator: Jay Gupta, Physics; Co-Investigator: Aravaind Ashtagiri, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Next Generation 2D Semiconductor Heterostructures, Principal Investigator: Siddharth Rajan, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Co-Investigator: Yiying Wu, Chemistry; Collaborators: Roberto Myers, Materials Science and Engineering; Wu Lu, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Wolfgang Windl, Materials Science and Engineering
2013 Exploratory Materials Research Grants
Exploratory Materials Research Grants enable nascent materials research to emerge to the point of being competitive for external funding. Four Exploratory Materials Research Grants were awarded this year:
- Enabling High-Efficiency Thin-Film CIGS Photovoltaics through Nanometer-Scale Defect Identification, Principal Investigator: Aaron Arehart, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Co-Investigators: Tyler Grassman, Materials Science and Engineering; Jonathan Pelz, Physics; Collaborators: David McComb, Materials Science and Engineering; Sylvain Marsillac, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University
- A New Approach for Contactless Transport Measurements, Principal Investigator: Thomas Gramila, Physics
- Engineering the Morphology of Ionenes for Self-Healing and Self-Destructing Materials, Principal Investigator: Lisa Hall, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Co-Investigator: Vishnu Baba Sundaresan, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Collaborator: Timothy Long, Chemistry, Virginia Tech
- Pulsed Laser Deposition Synthesized Heterostructures, Nanostructures, and Graded Nanostructure Engineered Materials, Principal Investigator: Michael Sumption, Materials Science and Engineering; Co-Investigator: Roberto Myers, Materials Science and Engineering
About the OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program
The OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program provides internal research funding opportunities through three distinct Funding Tiers designed to achieve the greatest impact for seeding and advancing excellence in materials research of varying scopes. The OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program is jointly funded and managed by the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM), the Center for Electronic and Magnetic Nanoscale Composite Multifunctional Materials (ENCOMM), and the Institute for Materials Research (IMR).