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ENCOMM is an interdepartmental, intercollegiate and interdisciplinary center with the goal of nucleating and fostering collaborative teams in the area of materials research.

2023 Materials Research Seed Grant Program Awardees

EMRGs – ($50,000 each) enable nascent and innovative materials research to emerge to the point of being competitive for external funding:

  1. “Site-Controlled InGaN/GaN Quantum Dots in GaN Nanowires for Single Photo Emission”
    PI: Shamsul Arafin; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  2. “Epitaxial Strain Control of Ferroelectricity for Advanced Microelectronics”
    PI: Kaveh Ahadi; Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Electric and Computer Engineering
  3. “Polar Instabilities in Locally Polar Superconductors”
    PI: Salva Salmani-Rezaie; Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  4. “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:

  1. “Polymer-Based Enzymatic Nanomaterials”
    PI: David Wood; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
    Co-PI: Davita Watkins; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
  2. 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:

  1. “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
  2. “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, CONGRATULATIONS!

2022 Materials Research Seed Grant Program Awardees

EMRGs

MTBGSs

Optical-electrical coupling behavior in semiconductor nanomembranes
  • PI: Jinghua Li
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering
High-throughput Synthesis of Microstructurally and Compositionally Complex High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) Using Additive Manufacturing
  • PI: Aeriel Murphy-Leonard
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Vanadium-substituted proteins as molecular qubits
  • PI: Hannah Shafaat
    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Effect of Polymer Chain Sequence and Architecture on Phase Behavior and Thermomechanical Response of Liquid Crystalline Copolymers Consisting of Oblate and Prolate Liquid Crystal Monomers
  • PI: Xiaoguang Wang
    • Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  • Co-PI: Lisa Hall
    • Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Functional Materials Interfaces for High-Energy Cathodes in Lithium-Ion Batteries
  • PI: Jung-Hyun Kim
  • Co-PI: Jinwoo Hwang
    • Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering
In situ Electrical Control of Band Gaps of 2D Semiconductors
  • PI: Jeanie Lau
  • Co-PI: Wolfgang Windl
    • Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering
  • Co-PI: Roberto Myers
    • Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering
Designing Chiral Halide Perovskites for Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity
  • PI: Yiying Wu
  • Co-PI: Robert Baker
    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry