The Institute for Materials and Manufacturing Research (IMR) is thrilled to announce awards for the Autumn 2023 Kickstart Facility Grants. IMR’s Kickstart Facility Grant Program makes shared campus research facilities more accessible to demonstrate materials-related research results with the goal of strengthening near- term research proposals for external support.
Autumn 2023 – Awarded Projects
Enzymatic Nanofungicide as an Innovative Food Packaging Biomaterial
– David Wood, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Role of extracellular vesicles on prospective vasculogenic cell therapies for Alzheimer’s Disease
– Diego F Alzate Correa (Post Doc), Biomedical Engineering
Unrevealing the Structure-Performance Interrelationship of A Class of HydrogelBased, Electro-Responsive Interface for Precise Chemical Release
– Jinghua Li, Materials Science and Engineering
Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Complex Oxides with Large Spin-Orbit Coupling
– Kaveh Ahadi, Materials Science and Engineering; Electrical and Computer Engineering
Non-contact, Non-destructive, Wafer-level Evaluation of Surface Properties in Antimonide Based Nanowires
– Punam Murkute (Post Doc), Electrical and Computer Engineering
Operando Insights into WSe2 Catalysis for CO2 Reduction
– Salva Salmani-Rezaie, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Investigating Optical Properties of Ar intercalated Low-Defect h-BN by Cathodoluminescence
– Shamsul Arafin , Electrical and Computer Engineering
Culinary Castoffs to Cutting-Edge Bio-Composites: Upcycling and Valueaddition of Cooking Waste into Sustainable, High-Performance Biodegradable Epoxy Thermosets, a Sustainability Pathway Toward a NetZero Future
– Sriloy Dey (Senior Research Associate), Food Science and Technology
Photophysical Properties of Cu-Doped Nanoceria: Role of Cu2+-Mediated sub-bandgap states on photocatalytic properties of nanoceria
– Supriya Ghosh (Post Doc), Chemistry and Biochemistry
Visualization and Characterization of Bacterial Extracellular Vesicles used to Mediate the Sensitization of Phage-Resistant Strains
– Tatiana Cuellar-Gaviria (Post Doc), Biomedical Engineering
Topological dipole lattices in geometrically confined nematic liquid crystals
– Xiaoguang (William) Wang, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering