Kickstart Facility Grant Program

Announcing Spring 2024 Kickstart Facility Grant Awardees

The Institute for Materials and Manufacturing Research is thrilled to announce the Spring 2024 awardees of our Kickstart Facility
Grant Program. IMR Kickstart Facility Grants make shared campus research facilities more accessible to demonstrate
materials-related research results with the goal of strengthening near-term research proposals for external support.

Each Kickstart Facility Grant provides $2,500.00 to offset the cost of user fees and access fees associated with
participating facilities.

 

Spring 2024 – Awarded Projects

 

Characterization and Analysis of Additively Manufactured Maraging Steel by Analytical Electron Microscopy with Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy and X-ray Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy

PI: Robert E A Williams, Assistant Director for Research and Development at the Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis

 

Design and development of combination therapies for the treatment of Neovascular age-related macular degeneration

PI: Ravi Saklani, Post-Doctoral Researcher in Biomedical Engineering
Co-PI: Katelyn Swindle-Reilly (Faculty Advisor), Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

 

Exploring Tomato Cuticle Responses to Drought Stress: Insights into Plant Defense Mechanisms

PI: Pu Yuan, Post-Doctoral Researcher in Plant Pathology
Co-PI: Ye Xia (Faculty Advisor),  Plant Pathology

 

High-Speed Barium Titanate Electro-Optic Modulators for Photonic Integrated Circuits

PI: Shamsul Arafin, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Co-PI: David Carpenter (Undergraduate Student), Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

High-throughput microstructural-based mechanical property predictions

PI: Johan Westraadt, Research Associate at the Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis

 

Prediction of Rib Structural Properties from 3D Cortical Pore Morphometry

PI: Mary Cole, Assistant Professor in the Division of Radiologic Sciences and Therapy

 

Preparation and Characterization of Electrochemically Etched Tips for Ultrafast Element-Resolved Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

PI: TJ Ronningen, Research Scientist in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Co-PI: Seth Shields, NEXUS Facility

 

Contact Information:

Potential applicants may contact Joanna Gardner, IMR Proposal Development Specialist, at (gardner.306@osu.edu) with any administrative or procedural questions. Contact IMR Executive Director Steven Ringel (ringel.5@osu.edu) with technical questions related to potential research activities.

Previous IMR Facility Grant Award Recipients

Lists of all previously awarded IMR Facility Grants are provided for reference in the links below.