IMR's Research Enhancement Program provides different funding mechanisms to support novel research at The Ohio State University. Seven IMRG Research projects were awarded a second year from IMR for an additional $287,500 in direct research support from IMR.
2010 IMRG Renewals IMR provided $287,500 in direct funding to support the second year of these successful IMRG research projects:
- Multi-Scale Characterization of Battery Materials for Improved Performance
- Lead: Sudarsanam Suresh Babu, Industrial, Welding and Systems Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering;
- Co-Applicants: Bharat Bhushan, Mechanical Engineering; Yann Guezennec, Mechanical Engineering; Giorgio Rizzoni, Mechanical Engineering; Shrikant C. Nagpure (PhD Student), Mechanical Engineering
- Metamaterials with Smart Reconfiguration for Broadband RF Antennas
- Lead: Marcelo Dapino, Mechanical Engineering;
- Co-Applicants: Suresh Babu, Industrial Systems Engineering; John Volakis, Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- Structure-Property Relationships in Novel Structural Materials
- Lead: Katherine Flores, Materials Science and Engineering
- Economical Platforms for FET-based Protein Detection to Support Sensor Clinical Translation
- Lead: Stephen C. Lee, Biomedical Engineering;
- Co-Applicant: Paul Berger, Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- Use of Electrospun Biomaterials as Carriers of Bone Marrow Derived Stem/Progenitor Cells to Stimulate Tissue Neovascularization
- Lead: Nicanor I. Moldovan, Internal Medicine;
- Co-Applicant: John J. Lannuti, Materials Science and Engineering.
- Exploring Electrically Tunable Magnetism in Gd-doped Nitride Quantum Structures
- Lead: Roberto C. Myers; Materials Science and Engineering & Electrical Computer Engineering;
- Co-Applicants: Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Physics; Michael Mills, Materials Science and Engineering.
- Synthesis of III-V Semiconductor Nanowire Heterostructures Using Metalorganic Chemical Vapor
- Lead: Fengyuan Yang, Physics;
- Co-Applicants: Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Physics; Roberto C. Myers, Materials Science and Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering