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ENCOMM meets at 4:00 PM on Fridays in 4138 Physics Research Building (PRB)


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  Winter Quarter 2006 Spring Quarter 2006

Spring 2011

April 8 OSU Materials Seed Grant Presentations

4:00 pm
PI: Michael Poirier Co-Investigators: Chris Jaroniec, Chris Hammel
Title: Magnetic Resonance Studies of Chromatin Structure and Dynamics

4:30 pm
PI: Jianjun Guan Co-Investigators: Peter Anderson
Title: Suitable construct biomechanics for engineering heart tissue

5:00 pm
PI: Stephen Lee Co-Investigators: Gregg Hadley, Ron Pelletier
Title: Construction and Characterization of bio-semi-conductor interfaces for biodetection



April 15 OSU Materials Seed Grant Presentations

4:00 pm
PI: Yebo Li Co-Investigators: Rudolph Buchheit, Stuart L. Cooper
Title: Development of Novel Processes for Biopolyols and Polyurethane Production from Renewable Sources

4:30 pm
PI: Gunjan Agarwal Co-Investigators: Samir Ghadiali, Greg Lafyatis
Title: Modulation of Cell and Matrix Mechanics by DDRS

5:00 pm
PI: Jay Gupta Co-Investigator: Len Brillson
Title: Atomic scale characterization of defects in wide bandgap semiconductors



April 22 OSU Materials Seed Grant Presentations

4:00 pm
PI: Jessica Winter Co-Investigator: R. Sooryakumar
Title: Magnetic Nanomaterials for Molecular Separations

4:30 pm
PI: Bharat Bhushan Co-Investigator: Scott Schricker
Title: Evaluating Protein Adsorption and Conformation on a Nanostructured Block Copolymer Surface with AFM to Develop Improved Biomaterials

5:00 pm
PI: Hendrik Verweij Co-Investigator: John Volakis
Title: Magnetic materials for RF applications: Structure-Property relationships



April 29 OSU Materials Seed Grant Presentations

4:00 pm
PI: Michael Paulaitis Co-Investigators: Chia-Hsiang Menq, Andre Palmer
Title: Biomaterials characterization and synthesis of mimetic cell-secreted microvesicles for cell-cell signaling

4:30 pm
PI: Suresh Babu Co-Investigator: Marcelo Dapino
Title: Nanostructured Smart Materials for Joining Interfaces

5:00 pm
PI: Kristy Ainslie Co-Investigator: Barbara Wyslouzil
Title: pH sensitive co-axial electrosprayed microparticles used as a vaccine for biodefense applications



May 6 OSU Materials Seed Grant Presentations

4:00 pm
PI: Kathy Flores Co-Investigators: Wolfgang Windl, Allen Yi
Title: Design of Functional Metallic Glasses

4:30 pm
PI: Anne Co Co-Investigator: Aravind Asthagiri
Title: Development of novel catalysts for CO2 electro-chemical reduction to alcohols

5:00 pm
PI: Claudia Turro Co-Investigators: Sheldon Shore, Vish Subramaniam
Title: Iodinated Boron Cages for Selective Pre- and Intraoperative Cancer Detection



May 13 TBD TBD
May 20 Anne Co   Chemistry Electrocatalysis

Winter 2011

January 14 Nitin Padture   MS&E MSE Colloquium   McQuigg Hall 3:30 pm   
"New high-temperature coatings for gas-turbine engines"
January 21 Fengyuan Yang    Physics Magnetic and structural properties of Sr2CrReO6 epitaxial films
January 28 Josh Goldberger   Chemistry Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Materials for Energy and Medicine
February 4 No meeting
February 11 Michael Poirier     Physics Genomic Materials: Properties and Impact
February 18 Jesse Berezovsky   CWRU New tools for exploring spins and photons in solid state nanosystems
February 25 Jos Heremans   Mechanical Engineering Thermal Spintronics
March 4 No Meeting
March 11 No Meeting  
     

Fall 2010   

October 1 Tony Leggett  UIUC Winner of 2003 Physics Nobel Prize Note: Talk in Scott Lab Room E100
"Prospects for topological quantum computing"
October 8 No Meeting
October 15 John Moreland   NIST Research Area: Biomagnetic Imaging Standards and Microsystems
October 22 Mali Balasubramanian   Argonne National Laboratory "Studies of Li-Ion Battery Materials Using Synchrotron Methods"
October 29 Donghun Lee   Physics "Tunable field-control over the binding energy of single dopants by a charged vacancy in GaAs"
November 05 Haidong Zhang   SUNY Talk Part I: MnAs/AlAsSb/InAs Heterostructure Based Spintronics Devices
Talk Part II: Optical Quantum Hall Detection in the THz Regime
November 12 Claudia Felser   Johannes Gutenberg University Heusler compounds: Multifunctional materials for spintronics

Spring 2010

2 April Jessica Winter, Chem & Biomolecular Eng and Biomedical Eng "Fluorescent Nanocomposites"
9 April Len Brillson, ECE & Physics "ENCOMM Postdoctoral Research on Complex Oxides"
16 April Jos Heremans,ME & Roberto Myers, MSE Spin-Seebeck
23April Michael Poirier, Biophysics
30April
7 May Chemistry MEEK Lecture: Dr. Mark Hampden-Smith, Cabot Corporation Room 1008 Evans Lab:   "Challenges in the Development of Materials for Solar Photovoltaic Applications"
14 May Min Ouyang, University of Maryland "Precisely Tailored Nanostructures: Chemistry and Physics"
21 May Chris Hammel, Physics "Nanoscale scanning probe ferromagnetic resonance imaging using localized modes"
28 May No Meeting
4 June No Meeting

Winter 2010

15 January Olivier Klein, Service de Physique de l'État Condensé (CEA-Saclay in France) Research Areas: nanomagnetism, magnetic resonance, and near field probe techniques.
22 January No Meeting
29 January Vidya Bhallamudi   ECE "Imaging spin diffusion in inhomogeneous magnetic fields"
5 February No meeting
12 February No Meeting
19 February N. Padture, P.C. Hammel, Z. Johnston-Halperin, P. Woodward, L. Brillson, CEM Workshop: "What makes a successful IRG"
26 February in 1008 Evans Lab Chemistry Mack Award Lecture: Chad A. Mirkin, Northwestern University 4:45pm "Unconventional Approaches to Nanofabrication"
5 March R. Sooryakumar (Soory), Physics "Mobile Magnetic Tweezers"
12 March Debdeep Jena, University of Notre Dame "Graphene Based Electronics"


Fall 2009


2 October Jairo Sinova, Texas A&M Univ "Making Semiconductors Magnetic"
9 October No meeting
16 October Fransiska Wolny, IFW-Dresden "Iron filled carbon nanotubes -Novel high resolution high stability probes for quantitative magnetic force microscopy"
23 October Jung-Woo Yoo, Physics -w/ Prof. Epstein's group "Moving toward organic spintronics"
30 October Fengyuan Yang, Physics "Achieving half-metallicity in double perovskite epitaxial films: roadblocks, successes, and the way ahead"
6 November Pat Woodward, Chemistry and Wolfgang Windl, MSE Topic: Defects in perovskites
13 November NSF Site visit to Center for Emergent Materials
20 November Jay Gupta, Physics "Studies of transport through single molecules with atomically precise contacts"
4 December No Meeting

Spring Quarter 2009

3 April Collaboration Group Meetings Coffee will be available in PRB 4138 for collaboration meetings
10 April
17 April Roland Kawakami, UC Riverside Graphine & Hydrogen Storage
24 April Umit Ozkan, Chem Eng Fuel Cells
 1 May Michael Sumption, Mat Sci Eng Opportunities for New Superconductors to Solve Energy Challenges
 5 May 4 pm Chemistry Seminar: Speaker Craig Grimes, Penn State "Self-assembled 1-D TiO2 Nanotube/Nanowire Arrays for Solar Energy Conversion Applications" 2015 McPherson
 8 May Unstructured meeting Members to meet and identify team members and refine concepts
15 May Siddarth Rajan & Roberto Myers, MSE
22 May Meeting Rescheduled
29 May P.C. Hammel, E. Johnston-Halperin, T. Blue, F. Yang, W. Windl, & D. Pelekhov "Radiation Hard Magnetoelectronics for Sensors and Logic"
 5 June Jos Heremans, Yiying Wu, Len Brillson and Pat Woodward "Semiconductor oxides for photocatalysis."
12 June P. Berger, M. Chisholm, A. Epstein, L. Brillson, and A. Friedman "Organic Photovoltaic: Solar Photon Energy Utilization"

Winter Quarter 2009

23 January Steve Ringel, ECE, Physics, and MS&E Photovoltaics at OSU & Heterogeneous Integration of Compound Semiconductors with Si for Advanced Photovoltaics of the Near/Next Generation
30 January Steve Harris, General Motors Batteries: Real World Issues and Problems
 6 February Wolfgang Windl, MS&E Mechanisms of Radiation Damage in Materials
13 February Yiying Wu, Chemistry Batteries: Fundamentals and Opportunities
20 February Dan Fleetwood, Vanderbilt University Radiation Effects in Materials
27 February No Meeting
 6 March Jos Heremans, MEE Resonant levels, distortion of the electronic density of states and entropy of electrons
13 March in Smith Seminar Room Paul Salvador, Carnegie Mellon University Photocatalysis

Autumn Quarter 2008

3 October Chris Hammel, Director Leadoff Meeting
10 October Chris Hammel, Physics and ECE Nanoscale Imaging in Buried Ferromagnets
24 October Roberto Myers, MS&E and ECE
31 October Steve Ringel, ECE, Physics, and MS&E Heterogeneous Integration of Compound Semiconductors with Si for Advanced Photovoltaics of the Near/Next Generation
7 November Wolfgang Windl, MS&E DFT, EELS and Interfaces
14 November Jos Heremans, MEE Materials for Energy and Waste Heat Recovery
21 November Siddharth Rajan, MS&E Overview of Research: Nano-scale Semiconductor devices, Molecular Beam Epitaxy, and III-nitride Semiconductors
28 November No Meeting, Thanksgiving Holiday
5 December Jeffrey Sutton, MEE Combustion Research: A Brief Look at Some Hot Topics

Spring Quarter 2008

28 March Chris Hammel, Dept. of Physics Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC's)
4 April Henk Verweij, Dept. of MSE Discussion Session on magnetic properties of granular materials (powders, (sintered) compacts)
11 Aprill EFRC Discussions
18 April Guest: Jim Beatty, Dept. of Physics (Astroparticle) Astroparticle Detection Needs and Opportunities
25April PVIC Graduate Students Group Presentation
2 May DOE EFRC discussion Propose EFRC topics/teams
9 May Guest Speaker: David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Molecular Electronics: From Simple Alkyls to Proteins
16 May DOE EFRC discussion Propose EFRC topics/teams
23 May J.-C. Zhao, Materials Science & Eng New ENCOMM Member: Overview of Research
30 May Cancelled for MRSEC RSV Panel Review

Winter Quarter 2008


This quarter begins meetings focusing on group funding opportunities
11 January S. Ringel, J. Volakis, Chris Hammel Block Funding I: DOD MURI Program
18 January No meeting MLK holiday weekend
25 January Hosted by IMR in E525 Scott Lab Henk Verweij: NSF IGERT Forum
1 February Facility Info Bob Davis, Nanotech West
Denis Pelekhov, ENCOMM Nanosystems Lab
8 February Jos Heremans, Mech Eng New results: Breakthrough in thermoelectric materials
15 February No Meeting
22 February Chris Hammel, Dept of Physics Spatially resolved FMR and iron filled carbon nanotubes
29 February Gunjan Agarwal, Biomedical Eng Introduction to Research
7 March No Meeting

Autumn Quarter 2007

28 September Kick Off Meeting
5 October No Meeting   Dave Rigney retirement celebration
12 October Susan Olesik,  Chemistry Carbon and Polymer Materials for Micro and Nanoscale Applications
19 October Hendrik Verweij,   Matls Sci & Eng Inorganic Membranes: Promises and Challenges
26 October Derek Hansford,   Biomedical Engineering Polymer-Ceramic Electro-Magnetic Composites for RF/Microwave Antennas and Circuits
2 November Michael Poirier,   Physics Assembling, Pulling and Visualizing Biological Nanostructures
9 November Prabir Dutta,  Chemistry Development of Harsh Environment NOx Sensors
16 November No Meeting  
30 November No Meeting 

Winter/Spring Quarter 2007

   


5 January Organizational Meeting Equipment Selection
12 January John W. Wilkins,   Physics Can You Trust Electronic Structure Calculations?
19 January No Meeting  
26 January Mohit Randeria,   Physics Theory of Scanning Tunneling and Photoemission Spectroscopies of Strongly Correlated Materials
2 February Interdisciplinary Research Group Meetings IRGs meet individually to develop Thrusts
9 February Four IRG Mini-Presentations Four Ten Minute Presentations
16 February Individual IRG Meetings IRGs meet individually to develop Thrusts
23 February Individual IRG Meetings IRGs meet individually to develop Thrusts
2 March No Meeting
9 March March Meeting APS--No Meeting
16 March No Meeting
23 March Spring Break
30 March Nanostructures IRG Presentation
6 April First Anniversary ENCOMM meeting/Reception for Deans
13 April SPIN IRG Presentation
20 April Oxides IRG Presentation
27 April Organic/Inorganic IRG Presentation
4 May Organizational Meeting
11 May No Meeting
18 May
25 May Wu Lu,  ECE Preliminary Results on Biosensing & Gas Chemical Sensing Based on III-Nitride Materials
1 June Terry L. Gustafson,   Chemistry
8 June Dr. Andrew Stollenwerk,  SUNY-Albany Spin Transport and Structural Properties of Transition-Metal/Semiconductor Interfaces

Autumn Quarter 2006


22 September Organizational Meeting Discuss and define meeting schedule and format
29 September Thomas Lemberger,   Physics Growth and Properties of Cuprate Superconducting Films
6 October Zeke Johnston-Halperin   Physics Controlling structural, electronic, and magnetic properties at nanometer length scales
13 October Pat Woodward,   Chemistry Multiferroic Materials: Chemical Design Principles
20 October Paul R. Berger,   ECE & Physics Organic-based semiconductors and materials for quantum functional circuitry, flexible circuitry and foldable photovoltaics: their chemistry, physics, materials science and electrical engineering
27 October Julia S. Meyer,   Physics Interaction effects in quasi-1d electron transport
3 November R. Sooryakumar,   Physics Recent Advances in Magneto-Electronics
17 November Steven Ringel,   ECE & Physics Quantified Detection of Deep Defect States in Wide Bandgap AlGaN and GaN with Nanometer Resolution
1 December Joseph Heremans,   Mech Eng Thermomagnetic Transport in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
8 December Organizational Meeting Focused Research Team Presentations and Equipment Selection
19 December Organizational Meeting Equipment Selection

Spring Quarter 2006

31 March Chris Hammel,   Physics & ECE Understanding High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a Ferromagnet
7 April Yiying Wu,   Chemistry A general method towards complex metal oxide nanostructures and their photovoltaic applications
14 April Nandini Trivedi,   Physics Multifunctional Materials and Imaging: Insights from computer simulations
21 April Jonathan Pelz,   Physics Measurement and modeling of nm-scale electronic properties at buried interfaces
28 April Fengyuan Yang,   Physics Spin Transport in nanoscale metallic and semiconductor magnetoelectronic devices
5 May Malcolm Chisholm,   Chemistry Control of Electronic Coupling Between Dinuclear Metal Centers: Molecular Rheostats and Switches
12 May Jovica Badjic,   Chemistry Measurement and modeling of nm-scale electronic properties at buried interfaces
19 May Nitin Padture,   Matls Sci & Eng Novel 1-D and 2-D Nanostructures of Functional Oxides
2 June Leonard Brillson,   ECE & Physics Recent Advances in Spectroscopy of Electronic Materials Surfaces and Interfaces

Winter Quarter 2006

20, 27 January Rick McCreery,   Chemistry Bistable Molecular junctions as potential low volatility memory
3 February James Coe,   Chemistry Surface Plasmons and the Extraordinary Infrared Transmission of Metallic Arrays with Subwavelength Holes
10 February Arthur J. Epstein,   Physics Strong Effects of Weak Magnetic Fields in Organic Semiconductors
24 February David G. Stroud,   Physics Introduction to Nanoplasmonics
3 March Jay Gupta,   Physics Frontiers in spectroscopy with the scanning tunneling microscope

   
   
 

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