About the Center for Emergent Materials

The Ohio State University Center for Emergent Materials (CEM) performs integrated research on emergent materials and phenomena in magnetoelectronics. Our goal is to lay down the scientific foundation for building both future oxide-based electronic devices that can perform multiple functions and energy-efficient, fast computers that have integrated memory and logic. The scientific foundation encompasses a deep and comprehensive understanding of emergent materials and phenomena, and the development of highly-sophisticated experimental and theoretical tools required to study them.

Two Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs) are at the heart of the CEM:

• IRG-1: Towards Spin-Preserving, Heterogeneous Spin Networks
• IRG-2: Double Perovskite Interfaces and Heterostructures

Enhanced classroom education and research internship opportunities are integrated within all of the CEM's research activities, widening the Science-Technology-Engineering-Math (STEM) "pipeline" and enhancing diversity in STEM. The overall goal of the enhanced classroom education program is to identify, study, and document a variety of misconceptions relevant to materials education and to develop and test curricula to address those misconceptions. The programs will work with instructors teaching introductory/undergraduate courses with materials science content, as well as contribute to the development of a high school materials science course curriculum. To fully engage students, especially those from underrepresented groups, a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program will be established at the college level and additional research activities will target students at the high school level. CEM will also expose middle and high school students to the excitement and relevance of materials science through a series of workshops that increase their awareness of careers in materials science.

Executive Committee

• Leonard J. Brillson, Professor and CMR Scholar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Physics (IRG-2 Co-Leader)
• Katharine Flores, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science (Education and Outreach Director)
• P. Chris Hammel, Professor and Ohio Regents Eminent Scholar, Department of Physics (IRG-1 Co-Leader)
• Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics (IRG-1 Co-Leader; Seed Co-Leader)
• Julia S. Meyer, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics (Seed Co-Leader)
• Nitin P. Padture, Engineering Distinguished Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Director and Chair)
• Steven A. Ringel, Neal A. Smith Endowed Chair and Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Facilities/Collaborations Leader)
• Nandini Trivedi, Professor, Department of Physics (Theory/Modeling Cluster Leader)
• Patrick M. Woodward, Professor, Department of Chemistry, (IRG-2 Co-Leader)

External Advisory Board

• Prof. David Awschalom, Director of the California NanoSystems Institute, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Prof. Robert Buhrman, Senior Vice Provost for Research, Cornell University
• Prof. Melissa Hines, Director of Cornell Center for Materials Research, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University (Chair)
• Prof. Allan MacDonald, Department of Physics, University of Texas, Austin
• Prof. Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
• Prof. Andrew Rappe, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
• Dr. Bruce Terris, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies