Congratulations to our Initiative and Seed proposal competition winners!
CMSE, has just completed major competitions for both Initiative and Seed grants. The competition for these funds was rigorous, including extensive reviews by the CMSE Director, Prof. Michael Rubner, and the CMSE external advisory board for all initiative proposals and by the CMSE Director and the CMSE internal advisory committee for all Seed proposals. Funding begins March 1, 2011 for seed proposals and June 1, 2011 for initiative proposals. Our winners are listed below.
Seed Research Projects
Each seed project is an individual investigator project with award not to exceed $70,000 per year for up to two years. Support is generally for graduate students and related materials and services expenses. Strong preference is given to junior and new faculty members to draw them into collaborative interdisciplinary research.
Winning Proposals
Bioinspired Environment-Responsive Ligand-Coated Nanoparticles
Alfredo Alexander-Katz, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Ordered Microporous Electrodes for High-Power Sustainable Li-ion Batteries
Mircea Dinca, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Engineering and Patterning Multiscale Nanostructures with Synthetic Biology
Timothy Lu, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Atomic Layer Deposition for the Design of Novel Catalytic Materials
Yuriy Roman, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Electrical-field Controlled Bio-membranes for Efficient Water Desalination
Evelyn Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Initiative Research Projects
Each initiative project is a small interdisciplinary research group with three to four faculty members sharing a common vision for a newly emerging area of research. Awards for each project will be up to $250,000 per year for a maximum of three years.
The primary goal of initiative funding is to incubate and develop a nascent interdisciplinary group that has the potential to become a future IRG.
Winning Proposals
High Def Nano Materials: New Routes to 3D Hierarchical Nanostructured Materials and Devices
Brian Wardle, Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics
Robert Cohen, Professor, Chemical Engineering
Michael Rubner, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Mehmet Toner, Professor, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology
Quantum Optoelectronics and Spintronics with Topological Insulator Nanoscale Devices
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Assistant Professor, Physics
Nuh Gedik, Assistant Professor, Physics
Dr. Jagadeesh Moodera, Francis Bitter Magnet Lab
Again, congratulations to all group members and be sure to check back for research updates from these groups!
For more information about current CMSE research: http://mit.edu/cmse/research/
