The Institute for Materials Research (IMR) announced the Autumn 2020 awardees of its Kickstart Facility Grants. These grants are awarded biannually to make shared campus-research facilities more accessible to faculty and staff conducting innovative materials-allied research at The Ohio State University.
A total of 12 projects were awarded through IMR’s Kickstart Facility Grant Program. Funding helps offset costs of user fees, access fees, and other charges that might be associated with research facilities. Awarded projects are listed below.
Recipients’ backgrounds range from Ohio State’s Welding Engineering Program to Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Architecture, and Wexner Medical Center’s Department of Otolaryngology.
“Now, more than ever, it is integral that innovative research is seeded to meet the challenges of ensuring research continuity through and beyond the pandemic,” said IMR executive director Steven Ringel, Distinguished University Professor, Neal A. Smith Chair Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Associate Vice President for Research. “Our Kickstart Facility Grant Program has helped faculty access Ohio State’s world-class research facilities for 13 years, and time and again has enabled critical support for the final pieces of a great publication or proposal.”
Autumn 2020 awardees:
- “Effect of Local Strain Accumulation on the Mechanism of Hydrogen Assisted Cracking in Dissimilar Metal Welds”
Boian Alexandrov, Materials Science and Engineering (Welding Engineering Program) - “Transfer of Large-Area and Polymer-free Hexagonal Boron Nitride and its Optical Characterization”
Shamsul Arafin, Electrical and Computer Engineering - “Drawing Fields: Robotic Painting in Architecture”
Ashley Bigham, Architecture - “Investigate the effect of beam scan strategies in EBM to achieve an equiaxed microstructure (and thereby isotropic mechanical properties) in AM Ti-6Al-4V”
Joerg Jinscheck, Materials Science and Engineering; Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis - “Materials and Interfaces for Low-Temperature Lithium-ion Batteries”
Jung-Hyun Kim, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - “In Silico Screening of Metal-Organic Frameworks for Water Harvesting”
Li-Chiang Lin, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering - “Methods for the post-synthetic electrocatalytic functionalization and upcycling of chloropolymer”
Christo Sevov, Chemistry and Biochemistry - “Material Characterization of Redox-Responsive Nanoparticles”
Katelyn Swindle-Reilly, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering - “Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Channel Materials and Electrolytesfor Organic Electrochemical Transistors”
Xiaoxue Wang, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering - “Magnetic mapping of biological iron by Lorentz microscope”
Robert Williams, assistant director, Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis - “Identification of the chemical compounds produced by beneficial bacterial microbes for contributing to plant fungal pathogen inhibitions”
Ye Xia, Plant Pathology - “3D printing surgical models”
Kyle VanKoevering, Otolaryngology
Contact IMR’s administrator and grants developer, Joanna Gardner at gardner.306@osu.edu with any questions about the Kickstart Grant Facility Program or information about becoming an IMR faculty member.
Story by Mike Huson, IMR Public Relations
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