2014 Seed Grant Program RFP Now Available

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CEM is pleased to announce the 2014 OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program Request for Proposals is now available.  This internal seed grant program is open to The Ohio State University materials community and offers two Funding Tiers to cover the breadth of materials research at OSU.

click here for the 2014 RFP with full details and instructions

The two Funding Tiers of the 2014 OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program are:

  1. Multidisciplinary Team Building Grants, which provide funds up to $60,000/year per award in direct costs, and require one PI and one Co-PI, and may have unfunded collaborators, with the goal of forming multidisciplinary materials research teams that can compete effectively for federal block-funding opportunities.
  2. Exploratory Materials Research Grants, which provide funds up to $40,000/year per award in direct costs, and require one PI, and may have Co-PIs and/or unfunded collaborators, with the goal of enabling nascent and innovative materials research to emerge to the point of being competitive for external funding. 

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Brillson receives Interdisciplinary Research Award

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CEM Faculty member Len Brillson was awarded, in conjunction with Profs. Wu Lu and Stephen C. Lee, a Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award. The three professors, members of the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering (Brillson, Lu) and Biomedical Engineering (Lee), have worked together to research the use of Field-effect Transistors (FETs) as protein sensors for biomedical applications. The development of this technology may lead to faster and cheaper diagnostics in clinical, biotechnological, and environmental applications.

The Lumley Interdisciplinary Research award was established in honor of John H. Lumley, a 1927 graduate of ceramic engineering, in 2002 to recognize interdisciplinary research accomplishments of College of Engineering faculty and research staff.

Congratulations Len!

CEM Faculty Prof. Len Brillson selected as a 2013 MRS Fellow

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CEM would like to congratulate CEM Faculty Member Prof. Len Brillson (Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering) on his selection as a 2013 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow. This is a notable achievement considering that 0.2% of MRS members are selected to be Fellows. MRS is the fifth society to select Prof. Brillson as a Fellow. The other societies of which he is a Fellow exemplify the interdisciplinary nature of his research: American Physical Society (APS), AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

2012-2013 Proto-IRG Awards

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The Center for Emergent Materials announces the latest round of Proto-IRG awards. Three new research projects were awarded, for a total investment of $350,000.

Congratulations to the following researchers on their new awards:

  • Roberto Myers, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, “Thermal spintronics: materials for enhanced heat-spin interactions”
  • Michael Poirier, Department of Physics, “Functional dynamics of DNA scaffolded materials”
  • Josh Goldberger, Department of Chemistry, “Band structure engineering on Si/Ge/Sn graphene analogues”

CEM Team Science Award at State Science Day on May 7, 2011

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The CEM presented the first Team Science Award for the Outstanding Project in interdisciplinary science related to physics, engineering, materials science and electronics to Mr. David Mehrle and Mr. Michael Huntley from Upper Arlington High School.  The award, a $250 Amazon gift card and plaque to each team member, was presented to these two 12th graders, for their work on the project titled “Hydrogen Gas Production in Response to Varying Incident Power of Light Using GaN Nanowires as a Working Electrode.”.  Their faculty advisor is Prof. Roberto Myers.