The Institute for Materials Research (IMR) announced $20,000 in funding to eight projects at The Ohio State University through the Spring 2022 round if its Kickstart Facility Grant Program.
Kickstart Facility Grants are awarded biannually to make shared research facilities at Ohio State more accessible to faculty and staff conducting innovative materials-allied research. Funding helps offset costs of user and access fees, as well as other charges associated with research facilities. Awarded projects are listed below.
Awarded projects will be led by principal investigators in backgrounds including Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
Learn more about IMR’s Kickstart Facility Grant Program here.
Projects awarded in Spring 2022:
Mechanism of Environmentally Assisted Hydrogen Stress Cracking in Welds of Advanced Alloys
Abbas Mohammadi, Postdoctoral Researcher in Materials Science and Engineering (Welding Engineering Program)
Cathodoluminescence studies of defects in Hexagonal-and Cubic-Boron Nitride
Shamsul Arafin, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
4D Multi-functional Architected Structures and Materials using Non-contact Actuationutilizing Microwaves and Magnetic fields
Alok Sutradhar, Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Design of enzyme-mediate interface for quantification of neuronal chemicals
Jinghua Li, Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering
Evaluation of Materials for Corneal Bioprinting
Katelyn Swindle-Reilly, Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Specific targeting of bacterial biofilm contamination of implanted devices using a novel peptide probe
Landon Locke, Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Development of micro crystal electron diffraction (micro-ED) as routine technique for structure determination of organometallic functional materials like [Cu2II-bis-μ-NO−]2+at CEMAS
Nicole Hoefer, Postdoctoral Researcher in Materials Science and Engineering; Center for Electron Microscopy and AnalysiS (CEMAS)
Assessment of resins for optimizing biological sample preparation for electron microscopy
Sarah Mikula, Laboratory Supervisor in Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis (CEMAS)