We are pleased to announce that after a thorough internal and external review process, 9 awards have been made to fund innovative and exciting materials research on campus through the OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program.  These awards total $420,000 in internal research funding to 15 OSU researchers in 5 departments. The program was able to fund 47% of the proposals submitted this year; 9 out of a total 19.

Congratulations to the nine research teams whose projects were selected this year for seed grant funding.

2015 Multidisciplinary Team Building Grants

Multidisciplinary Team Building Grants form multidisciplinary materials research teams that can compete effectively for federal block-funding opportunities.  Three Multidisciplinary Team Building Grants were awarded this year:

• DNA devices for probing nanoscale physics of fluids
  • Prof. Carlos Castro, Prof. Michael Poirier, Prof. Shaurya Prakash, Prof. Soheil Soghrati
• Studies of dopant dynamics using microscopy at atomic length and femtosecond time scales
  • Prof. Jay Gupta, Prof. Enam Chowdhury
• Skyrmions in Low-Dimensional Chiral Magnets
  • Prof. Mohit Randeria, Prof. Roland Kawakami, Dr. Sarah Dunsiger

2015 Exploratory Materials Research Grants

Exploratory Materials Research Grants enable nascent materials research to emerge to the point of being competitive for external funding.  Six Exploratory Materials Research Grants were awarded this year:

• Investigating Crystallization Mechanisms of Microporous Materials Using Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry
  • Prof. Nicholas Brunelli
• First-principles study of dislocation core structures and properties in multi-principal-element alloys
  • Prof. Maryam Ghazisaeidi
• Direct Imaging of Atomic Scale Electromagnetic Fields in Functional Materials
  • Prof. Jinwoo Hwang
• Developing electrodes for hydrogen production based on robust biological catalysts
  • Prof. Hannah Shafaat
• Exploration of the Anomalous Hall Effect at Terahertz Frequencies
  • Prof. Valdés Aguilar
• Development of Epitaxial Film Growth of Group V-VI Topological Insulators by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
  • Prof. Fengyuan Yang

About the OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program

The OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program provides internal research funding opportunities through two distinct Funding Tiers designed to achieve the greatest impact for seeding and advancing excellence in materials research of varying scopes.  The OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program is jointly funded and managed by the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM), the Center for Exploration of Novel Complex Materials (ENCOMM), and the Institute for Materials Research (IMR).

The NanoSystems Laboratory, a user-fee based research facility supported by CEM, is hiring a Program Assistant. See the job posting linked below.

https://www.jobsatosu.com/postings/63301

Last week, May 4-7, CEM’s IRG-1 hosted scientists from across the world with diverse expertise working on the interplay of spin-orbit coupling and correlations in transition metal oxides. Speakers included:

• James Analytis, University of California, Berkeley
• Ryotaro Arita, Riken
• Gang Cao, Kentucky
• Jinguang Cheng, IOP, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers University
• Daniel Dessau, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Daniel Haskel, Argonne National Laboratory
• Harold Hwang, Stanford University
• George Jackeli, Max Planck Institute
• Hae-Young Kee, University of Toronto
• Bernhard Keimer, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
• Daniel Khomskii, University of Cologne
• Yong-Baek Kim, Toronto
• Yeongkwan Kim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Young Lee, Stanford University
• John Mitchell, Argonne National Laboratory
• Arun Paramekanti, University of Toronto
• Natalia Perkins, University of Minnesota
• Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
• Sergej Savrasov, University of California, Davis
• Kyle Shen, Cornell University
• Susanne Stemmer, UC Santa Barbara
• Hidenori Takagi, Max Planck Institute
• Jean-Marc Triscone, Geneva
• Kentaro Ueda, University of Tokyo
• Ashvin Vishwanath, University of California, Berkeley
• Fengyuan Yang, Ohio State University
• Jiaqiang Yan, University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Additional information, including slides presented at the workshop can be found here.