CEM’s Professor Brian Skinner was recently featured in Quanta Magazine within the article, “Physicists Observe ‘Unobservable’ Quantum Phase Transition” as one of the physicists who first identified the phenomenon.
Check out the article here
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OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program – 2023 Award Announcement
We are pleased to announce that after a thorough internal and external review process, 4 Exploratory Materials Research Grants (EMRGs), 2 Multidisciplinary Team Building Grants (MTBGs), and 2 Proto-IRG Grants have been selected to fund exceptionally promising, innovative materials research on campus.
The OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program (MRSGP) provides internal research funding opportunities designed to achieve the greatest impact for seeding and advancing excellence in materials research of varying scopes. It is jointly funded and managed by the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM), an NSF MRSEC [NSF DMR-2011876], the Center for Exploration of Novel Complex Materials (ENCOMM), and the Institute for Materials and Manufacturing Research (IMR). Congratulations to this year’s awardees!
EMRGs – ($50,000 each) enable nascent and innovative materials research to emerge to the point of being competitive for external funding:
- “Site-Controlled InGaN/GaN Quantum Dots in GaN Nanowires for Single Photo Emission”
PI: Shamsul Arafin; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - “Epitaxial Strain Control of Ferroelectricity for Advanced Microelectronics”
PI: Kaveh Ahadi; Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Electric and Computer Engineering - “Polar Instabilities in Locally Polar Superconductors”
PI: Salva Salmani-Rezaie; Department of Materials Science and Engineering - “Design & Synthesis of Functional Covalent Organic Frameworks for the Photocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Chemical Fuels & Feedstocks”
PI: Psaras McGrier; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
MTBGSs – ($70,000 each) forming multidisciplinary materials research teams that can compete effectively for federal block-funding opportunities, such as the NSF MRSEC program:
- “Polymer-Based Enzymatic Nanomaterials”
PI: David Wood; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Co-PI: Davita Watkins; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry“Signal Transducing Nanodevice Assemblies for Triggered Materials Self-assembly”
PI: Carlos Castro; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Proto-IRGs – ($100,000 each) forming multidisciplinary materials research teams that can compete effectively for federal block-funding opportunities, such as the NSF MRSEC program:
- Topological States Beyond Crystaline Materials”
PI: Jinwoo Hwang; Department of Material Science and Engineering
Co-PI; Yuan-Ming; Department of Physics
Co-PI; Jyoti Katoch; Department of Physics - “In situ Control of Band Gaps & Intersubband Transition of 2D Semiconductors”
PI: Jeanie Lau; Department of Physics
Co-PI; Roberto Myers; Department of Material Sciences and Engineering
Co-PI; Wolfgang Windl; Department of Material Sciences and Engineering
On behalf of the integrated materials research community at Ohio State,
Sincerely,
Fengyuan Yang P. Chris Hammel Steven A. Ringel
Director, ENCOMM Director, CEM Executive Director, IMR
Randeria Elected 2022 AAAS Fellow
Congratulations to Prof. Mohit Randeria, IRG-1, on being elected a AAAS 2022 Fellow! In October 2022, the AAAS Council elected 505 members as Fellows of AAAS. Election as a Fellow honors members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society have distinguished them among their peers and colleagues.
See the announcement here.
Professors Hereman and Trivedi Author Groundbreaking Study
Researchers have discovered a new electronic property at the frontier between the thermal and quantum sciences in a specially engineered metal alloy – and in the process identified a promising material for future devices that could turn heat on and off with the application of a magnetic “switch.”
“Solid-state heat switches without moving parts are extremely desirable, but they don’t exist,” Heremans said. “This is one of the possible mechanisms that would lead to one.”
In physics, an anomaly – the electrons’ generation and absorption of heat discovered in this study – refers to certain symmetries that are present in the classical world but are broken in the quantum world, said study co-author Nandini Trivedi, professor of physics at Ohio State.
The research was published June 7, 2021 in the journal Nature Materials.
Read more here.
Prof. Skinner Receives NSF CAREER Award
The CEM is pleased to congratulate Prof. Brian Skinner on his recent NSF CAREER award. The award is a continuing grant from the National Science Foundation for his project CAREER: Electrical and Thermoelectric Transport Beyond the Metal/Insulator Paradigm.
Read more here.