ENCOMM Seminar: “Design & Synthesis of Functional Covalent Organic Frameworks for the Photocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Chemical Fuels & Feedstocks” (Prof. Psaras McGrier)

The OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program (MRSGP) has eight new awardees, funding exceptionally promising, innovative materials research on campus! All teams will present their projects as part of the Center for Exploration of Novel Complex Materials (ENCOMM) Building Collaborations Seminar Series, beginning Wednesday, September 27^th.

Please see the full schedule below, as we invite you to attend in-person, Wednesdays in the Physics Research Building, Room 4138, from 3:00PM – 4:00PM:

1. Wednesday, September 27^th: “Epitaxial Strain Control of Ferroelectricity for Advanced Microelectronics”
   PI: Kaveh Ahadi; Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Electric and Computer Engineering
2. Wednesday, October 18^th: “Polar Instabilities in Locally Polar Superconductors”
   PI: Salva Salmani-Rezaie; Department of Materials Science and Engineering
3. Wednesday, October 25^th: “Site-Controlled InGaN/GaN Quantum Dots in GaN Nanowires for Single Photo Emission”
   PI: Shamsul Arafin; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
4. Wednesday, November 1^st: “In situ Control of Band Gaps & Intersubband Transition of 2D Semiconductors”
   PI: Jeanie Lau; Department of Physics
5. Wednesday, November 8^th: “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
6. Wednesday, November 15^th: “Polymer-Based Enzymatic Nanomaterials”
   PI: David Wood; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
   Co-PI: Davita Watkins; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
7. Wednesday, November 29^th: “Signal Transducing Nanodevice Assemblies for Triggered Materials Self-assembly”
   PI: Carlos Castro; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
8. Wednesday, December 6^th: “Polarization Caloritronics: what is the nature of the thermal perturbations of the ferroelectric order what can we do with them”
   PI: Jos Heremans; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
9. Wednesday, December 13^th: “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