2009 Seed Funding Awards

The Center for Emergent Materials (CEM) is proud to announce the following Seed Project Grants (2009-2010), totaling $123,000 in direct costs:

“Towards Room Temperature Spin-Injection/Detection in Wide Band Gap Semiconductors”
PI: Asst. Prof. Roberto Myers, Department of Materials Science & Engineering

“Multifunctional Hybrid Nanomaterials: Synthesis and Manipulation”
PI: Asst. Prof. Jessica Winter, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Co-PI: Prof. R. Sooryakumar, Department of Physics

Renewal of “Heterogeneous Magnetic Particles for Force and Torque Sensing: A New Approach for Single Molecule Biology”
PI: Asst. Prof. Michael Poirier, Department of Physics

Renewal of “Microstructured Polymer Nanofibers for Skeletal Muscle Restoration”
PI: Asst. Prof. Yi Zhao, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Please join us in congratulating Profs. Myers, Poirier, and Zhao, and welcoming Profs. Winter and Sooryakumar to the CEM community.