Professor Yi Zhao joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The Ohio State University and founded the Laboratory for Biomedical Microsystems in October 2006. Prior to arriving at OSU he received his graduate training in manufacturing engineering at Boston University and in mechanical engineering at Tsinghua University, China. Dr. Zhao’s research interests span a broad range of multidisciplinary fields in …
IMR Quarterly Newsletter Spring 2009 CIMR Quarterly, Spring 2009
Features Solar Solutions (Paul Berger, Malcolm Chisholm, Arthur Epstein, Terry Gustafson, and Nitin Padture) Smart, Clean, and Green: Progress on an IMRG (Marcelo Dapino and Stephen Bechtel) Faculty Spotlight: Yi Zhao, Biomedical Engineering Download the Spring 2009 Quarterly Newsletter About IMR Quarterly The Institute for Materials Research provides a newsletter three times a year with technical articles highlighting OSU research, updates …
Facility Grants Awards, Winter 2009
Ten new research projects were awarded by the IMR in January 2009, for a total investment of $20,000. The ten projects support 13 faculty researchers from seven departments within the College of Engineering and the College of Biological, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Magnetic Force Microscopy of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Biological Systems Lead Investigator: Gunjan Agarwal, Biomedical Engineering ; Co-Investigator: Chris …
IMR Materials Week: September 10-12, 2008
Our first annual IMR Materials Week will showcase state-of-the-art research in materials at OSU from scientific discovery to engineering applications. This three-day event is offered free of charge to the materials community.
2008 IMRG Awards Announcement
Three new research projects and six renewals were awarded by the IMR in July 2008, for a total investment of $382,500. 2008 New IMRG Research Projects Experimental and Computational Study of ALD-grown Dielectrics on III-Nitrides Lead: Siddharth Rajan, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering; Co-Applicant: Wolfgang Windl, Materials Science and Engineering Multi-Scale Characterization of Battery Materials for …
Ohio State Wins Ohio Research Scholars Program Award in Technology
The Ohio Department of Development has announced that The Ohio State University will receive an Ohio Research Scholars Program award totaling over $18 million to fund its proposal, Technology-Enabling and Emergent Materials. The award funds two endowed Ohio Research Scholars positions for The Ohio State University, a Nanoscale Materials Microscopist and a Molecular Chemist; one Ohio Research Scholar at University …
IMR Welcomes New Member of Technical Staff – Denis Pelekhov
Dr. Denis Pelekhov has joined the Institute for Materials Research as a Research Scientist, effective May 1, 2008. Denis holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics and conducted research at Los Alamos National Laboratory for over four years before joining The Ohio State University in 2002. Many members of our campus materials community already know Denis as the manager of the …
IMR Facility Grant Awards, February 2008
Photomodulation of Carbon Nanosponges Lead: Vish Subramaniam, Mechanical Engineering; Co-Applicant: R. Sooryakumar, Physics Fabrication of Essential Experimental Components for Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM) Lead: Chris Hammel, Physics Enhance Program on Spintronic Phenomena in Organic-based Materials Lead: Arthur Epstein, Physics; Co-Applicants: Deniz Duman and Mark Murphey, Graduate Students Preparation and Characterization of Ultrasharp Tips for sub-10nm Resolution Optical Microscopy and …
IMR Welcomes Newest Member of Technical Staff – John Carlin
IMR is pleased to welcome its second IMR Member of Technical Staff, Research Scientist Dr. John Carlin, to our community. John is no stranger to OSU as he is a 2001 PhD graduate who performed research on III-V compound semiconductor epitaxy and device processing during his graduate school days. From 2001-2004 he was a project manager and researcher at Amberwave …
New Faculty Members Arrive Through TIE Cluster-Hire
The Institute for Materials Research is happy to announce that two new faculty members have joined The Ohio State University as part of the ongoing faculty cluster-hire in computational aspects of multiscale materials modeling. Professor Sudarsanam Suresh Babu recently joined the OSU Industrial, Welding and systems Engineering Department as an Associate Professor. Professor Babu comes to OSU from the Edison …