More than $27 million from the National Science Foundation will fund two new facilities at Ohio State led by faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Department of Physics: The National Gateway Ultrahigh Field NMR Center ($17.577 million) The National Extreme Ultrafast Science Facility (NEXUS) within the Institute for Optical Science ($9.5 million) The facilities, which will be open to scientists everywhere, are a product …
7 projects awarded $300K through OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program
The Ohio State University this week announced seven innovative materials research projects will receive a total of $300,000 in funding through the OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program. The program seeds and advances excellence in materials research of varying scopes. It is jointly funded and managed by the Institute for Materials Research (IMR), Center for Emergent Materials (CEM) and Center …
Ohio State-led research team receives $2.2 million grant for transformational energy project
Researchers at The Ohio State University are leading a project recently awarded $2.2 million from the Department of Energy to develop gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor materials suitable for high-voltage power control and conversion. The project, “GaN MOCVD Growth on Native Substrates for High Voltage (15-20 kV) Vertical Power Devices,” is one of 12 projects receiving $35 million in funding …
IMR offering grant development support to researchers interested in upcoming NSF opportunity
The Institute for Materials Research (IMR) encourages faculty members interested in submitting an NSF Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) proposal to reach out to the institute’s grants developer with inquiries. IMR will host an open house Dec. 6 at Nanotech West Laboratory, on West Campus, to offer more information about the proposal development process to researchers …
Air Force Research Laboratory looks to Ohio State for materials innovation
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and The Ohio State University’s Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis (CEMAS) have established a long-term research collaboration platform for advanced materials characterization. The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RX) develops materials, processes, and advanced manufacturing technologies for aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, rockets, and ground-based systems and their structural, electronic and …
Defense funding to enhance Engineering research capabilities
Materials Science and Engineering Professor David McComb and Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Paul Berger earned federal grants for laboratory equipment useful in advancing national defense research. The Department of Defense (DoD) recently announced awards to 175 university researchers at 91 institutions in 36 states, totaling $53 million through the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). The program augments …
Defense-funded research will advance electronic materials, additive manufacturing
Engineering faculty representing several disciplines soon will receive Department of Defense (DoD) funding to accelerate important research and training of graduate students. The Ohio State College of Engineering research teams have received two of the 24 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awards recently announced. Neal A. Smith Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Steven A. Ringel, Electrical and …
2017 OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program Awards
We are pleased to announce that after a thorough internal and external review process, 8 awards have been made to fund exceptionally promising, innovative materials research on campus through the 2017 OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program. These awards total $360,000 in internal research funding to 17 Ohio State researchers from 8 departments in two colleges. The program was …
Krishna Wins ONR Grant to Develop Next-Gen IR Detector Technologies
New M&MS faculty hire Professor Sanjay Krishna awarded a $3M grant from the Office of Naval Research which can help make The Ohio State University a worldwide leader in next-generation infrared detector technologies
Grassman Wins SunShot Award to Develop High Efficiency Tandem Solar Cell
Prof. Tyler Grassman’s SunShot award supports research that will reduce solar costs beyond 2020.