This Winter, the new OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program was established as an enhanced seed program unifying the primary internal research funding opportunities offered 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). The OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program provides three distinct Funding Tiers designed to achieve the greatest impact for seeding and advancing excellence in materials research of varying scopes.
We are excited to announce that after a thorough internal and external review process, seven new one-year awards have been made to fund innovative and exciting materials research on campus through the OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program. These awards total $480,000 in internal research funding to 15 OSU researchers in seven departments.
Full abstracts for each of these research projects are available online here.
2011 Proto-IRG Grants
Thermal Spintronics: Engineering Spin Currents and Dissipation, Principal Investigator: Roberto Myers, Materials Science & Engineering; Co-Investigators: Joseph Heremans, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering; Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Physics
Characterization & Synthesis of Mimetic Cell-Secreted Exosomes for Cell Signaling, Principal Investigator: Michael Paulaitis; Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Co-Investigators: Andre Palmer, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Chia-Hsiang Menq, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Magnetic Resonance Studies of Chromatin Dynamics and Function, Principal Investigator: Michael Poirier, Physics; Co-Investigators: Chris Hammel, Physics; Christopher Jaroniec, Chemistry
2011 Multidisciplinary Team Building Grants
Engineered Heart Tissue: A Multidisciplinary Team Centered on Scaffold Structure and Mechanics, Principal Investigator: Jianjun Guan, Materials Science & Engineering; Co-Investigators: Gunjan Agarwal, Biomedical Engineering; Peter Anderson, Materials Science & Engineering
2011 Exploratory Materials Research Grants
Towards Si- Graphene Analogues: Development of Air- and Water-Stable Layered Polysilanes, Principal Investigator: Joshua Goldberger, Chemistry
Atomic Scale Characterization of Defects in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors, Principal Investigator: Jay Gupta, Physics; Co-Investigator: Leonard Brillson, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Sonochemical Synthesis of Metal Hydrides, Principal Investigator: Yiying Wu, Chemistry
We anticipate sharing updates through our website and IMR Quarterly newsletter as these research projects progress. Congratulations to these research teams.