Features Materials in Cancer Detection (Claudia Turro) Wright Center Reviews: PVIC (Bob Davis), CMPND (Sharrell Mikesell) Faculty Spotlight: Suresh Babu, Integrated Systems Engineering Download the Fall 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 on research funded by IMR grants, facility updates, recently awarded grants, …
Faculty Spotlight – Dr. Hendrik Verweij
Hendrik (Henk) Verweij joined the department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at The Ohio State University in March 2001, and was appointed as the Orton Chair in Ceramic Engineering. Before that he was Professor of the Inorganic Materials Science group in the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Twente in the Netherlands for 9 years. Dr. Verweij …
OSU Team Wins NSF MRI Competition
A team of OSU researchers has won an NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award for the acquisition of a hybrid diamond/nitride synthesis cluster tool for studies of wide bandgap semiconductors. The team of researchers spans two colleges and three departments including Physics (Prof. Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, CME, PI on the proposal*; Prof. Fengyuan Yang, CME; Prof. Harris Kagan, HEPX), Electrical and …
IMR Materials Week: Student Poster Session Award Winners
2009 IMR Materials Week brought together over 250 attendees, including representatives from 14 different universities and 12 industry collaborators. The ending to this exciting week of shared discoveries was a luncheon where we announced the six winners of this year’s “Best Student Poster Award.” The award winners were selected from 2 different poster sessions, a Materials Research Student Poster Session and the …
IMR Shuttle Service Cancelled During Materials Week
IMR SHUTTLE SERVICE CANCELLED Due to the 2009 Materials Week conference and the Labor Day holiday, the IMR Shuttle Van will NOT be running Monday, August 31st through Monday, September 7th. We will resume our normal shuttle schedule on Tuesday, September 8th.
FY2010 IMR Facility Grants RFP Released
The OSU Institute for Materials Research (IMR) has released a Request for Proposals for our FY2010 Facility Grants competitions. IMR Facility Grants are awarded at $2,000 each for 12-month project periods, to assist OSU researchers with facility user access fees and related minor charges. This fiscal year, IMR will again hold two rounds of Facility Grants competitions with deadlines of October …
Liquid nitrogen system updates for The Dreese Cleanroom and SEAL
Construction in front of Dreese Lab between the Northwest parking garage may be inconvenient for pedestrians for a few days. However, with the recent addition of the Veeco 930 Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) to SEAL, and an eye on future growth of SEAL and the Dreese Lab Cleanroom, the project became essential. The current system features underground delivery of the liquid nitrogen, which …
2009 Interdisciplinary Materials Research Grants (IMRGs) Awards
IMR’s Research Enhancement Program provides different funding mechanisms to support novel research at The Ohio State University. Five new research projects were awarded by the IMR in June 2009, for a total investment of $225,000. Metamaterials with Smart Reconfiguration for Broadband RF Antennas Lead: Marcelo Dapino, Mechanical Engineering; Co-Applicants: Suresh Babu, Industrial Systems Engineering; John Volakis, …
IMR Quarterly, Summer 2009
Features Super Insights into ”Superalloys” (Michael Mills) IMR Funded Research: Assembly of Biomolecular Materials (Dennis Bong) Faculty Spotlight: Jay Gupta, Physics Download Download the Summer 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 on research funded by IMR grants, facility updates, recently awarded grants, and other …
Kaz Talk Now Available Online
On May 5th, the IMR hosted its last seminar in the 2008-2009 IMR Colloquia Series, a lively talk featuring Dr. Larry “Kaz” Kazmerski, Executive Director of Science and Technology Partnerships at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Kazmerski’s colloquium, “Photovoltaics R&D: The Revolution Has Begun” was an entertaining, multi-media presentation of the history of solar energy technology and the future of …