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Mrsec Program Annual Report and Continuation Request MRSEC PROGRAM ANNUAL REPORT AND CONTINUATION REQUEST For the Period March 1, 2016 – May 31, 2017 Under Grant No. DMR-1419807 Submitted to THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION by The Center for Materials Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts June 1, 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1-5 2. PARTICIPANTS IN THE CENTER FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND 6-11 ENGINEERING, March 1, 2016 TO May 31, 2017 3. COLLABORATORS WITH THE CENTER FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND 12 ENGINEERING OVER THE LAST 63 MONTHS, March 1, 2016 TO May 31, 2017 4. CENTER STRATEGIC PLAN 13 5. RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PLANS 14-34 6. EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES 35-39 7. POSTDOC MENTORING PLAN 40 7. DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN 41 8. CENTER DIVERSITY 42-44 9. KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER TO INDUSTRY AND OTHER SECTORS 45-46 10. INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES 47 11. SHARED EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES 48-49 12. ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT 50-51 13. PH.D.s AWARDED, March 1, 2016 TO May 31, 2017 52-53 13. POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATES PLACEMENT, March 1, 2016 TO May 31, 2017 54 14. PUBLICATIONS, March 1, 2016 TO June 1, 2017 55-69 14. CMSE PATENTS APPLIED/GRANTED, March 1, 2016 TO May 31, 2017 70-71 15. BIOGRAPHIES 72-76 16. CENTER PARTICIPANTS’ HONORS AND AWARDS, March 1, 2016 TO May 31, 77-78 2017 17. HIGHLIGHTS: March 1, 2016 TO May 31, 2017 79-92 18. STATEMENT OF UNOBLIGATED FUNDS 93 19. BUDGETS 94- 100 APPENDICES A – K 101- 116 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1a. Center Vision and Director’s Overview: The underlying mission of the CMSE MRSEC is to enable – through interdisciplinary fundamental research, innovative educational outreach programs and directed knowledge transfer – the development and understanding of new materials, structures and theories that can impact the current and future needs of society. The center works to bring together the large and diverse materials community at MIT in a manner that produces high impact science and engineering typically not realized through usual modes of operation. The MIT MRSEC enables collaborative interdisciplinary research between MIT faculty and the researchers of other universities, industry and government laboratories. Synergistic activities with key organizations at MIT including the Materials Processing Center (MPC), Industrial Liaison program (ILP) and strategically aligned departments in the Schools of Science and Engineering are leveraged to maximize the impact enabled by MRSEC funding including the center’s wide-ranging outreach activities. The MRSEC maintains professionally staffed, state-of-the-art shared experimental facilities (SEF) that provide key infrastructure support to researchers in the local area and the nation. Research Programs: CMSE’s current research portfolio includes three Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs), four seed projects and one superseed supplement: the IRGs and seeds are highlighted below. The total number of faculty supported in this research program during this reporting cycle (March 2016 - May 2017) was 34. IRG-I) Harnessing In-fiber Fluid Instabilities for Scalable and Universal Multidimensional Nanosphere Design, Manufacturing, and Applications (Fink and Soljačić co-leaders): This IRG explores fundamental issues associated with multi-material in-fiber fluid instabilities and uses the resultant knowledge to develop a new materials-agnostic fabrication approach for the creation of nanoparticles of arbitrary size, geometry and composition. This research sets the stage for discoveries in areas ranging from novel neuronal interface devices to delivery vehicles for pharmaceuticals, and potentially in the chemical and electronics industries. IRG-II) Simple Engineered Biological Motifs for Complex Hydrogel Function (Ribbeck and Olsen co-leaders): This group seeks to understand the fundamental biology, chemistry and materials science underlying the unique properties of biological hydrogels and use this knowledge to design and create synthetic mimics that have the potential to revolutionize the design of water purification technologies and a range of biomedical applications. IRG-III) Nanoionics at the Interface: Charge, Phonon, and Spin Transport (Ross and Yildiz co- leaders): This IRG seeks to discover the coupling mechanisms between oxygen defects and the transport of phonons, spin and charge at the interfaces of complex oxides. The resultant new knowledge will guide the design of materials for the next generation of miniaturized and high- efficiency devices for energy conversion and for information processing and storage. Seed 1) Chemically Modified Carbon Cathodes for High Capacity Li-O2 Batteries (Yogesh Surendranathm, Dept. of Chemistry): Seed 2) Interface Engineering of Silicon-Oxide Core-Shell Nanorods for High-Efficiency Water Splitting Photocatalysts (Alexie M. Kolpak, Dept. of Mech. Eng.): Seed 3) Single Crystal Study of Electronic Topology and Correlation (Joe Checkelsky, Physics): Seed 4) Direct Deposition of Catalysts on Porous Metallic Foams for Efficient CO2 Electroreduction (Fikile R. Brushett, Dept. of Chem. Eng.): SuperSeed: Magnetically and Optically Driven Topological Semimetals (Liang Fu, Nuh Gedik, Joseph Checkelsky, Physics). The goal of this research is to discover and explore the fundamental properties of two new types of Topological Semimetals: magnetic and photo-driven systems. 1 Diversity Activities: During this funding period, 40 high school women participated in our laboratory component of the Women’s Technology Program (WTP), 4 MRSEC faculty contributed to the MIT-DOW Access program, 2 undergraduate students, recruited through our UMET Puerto Rico program, participated in our REU program, 16 middle school students participated in our Middle School Program and 4 students and a faculty member participated in our Community College Program. We also launched a new partnership with the MIT Women of Materials Science (WoMS) group, an organization whose mission is to prepare and to advance the careers of the female population in the materials science community. Education Outreach Activities: CMSE educational outreach programs encompass a broad range of activities and age levels with participation from middle school students and teachers, undergraduates (REU), and high-school students and teachers (RET). The Center also provides programs to train undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral associates to become future leaders in science and engineering research and education. Assessment tools include entrance and exit surveys, focus groups, and tracking the careers of REU participants. This past year, nine teachers participated in our RET/STEP programs and eleven undergraduate students participated in our REU program. Beyond our core programs, our faculty educational leader, Prof. Leeb, engaged more than 2000 people in a variety of on and off campus outreach events. Shared Experimental Facilities (SEFs): The SEFs (totaling 11,600 sq. ft. of space) represent a critically important component of the MRSEC and, indeed, the broader MIT research landscape. CMSE currently runs four major facilities: Materials Analysis and Preparation; Electron Microscopy; Nanostructured Materials Growth; and Metrology and X-Ray Diffraction. This past year, more than 1,040 individual users, from both inside and outside of MIT, utilized these facilities to conduct research, engage in educational outreach activities and teach MIT laboratory classes. This past year, new equipment purchases include a Raman Confocal Microscope and a MPMS3 Squid Magnetometer. We are also in the process of launching a new in-situ SEM analysis facility for mechanical and electrical property characterization. Materials Research Facilities Network Supplement (MRFN): During this funding period, four faculty along with six graduate/undergraduate students utilized MRFN funds to spend up to a week at MIT within our SEFs analyzing research samples and getting trained on various instruments. The universities/colleges included Roxbury Community College (Mass), Case Western University, Louisiana Technical University, and North Carolina A&T State University. Industrial Outreach and Knowledge Transfer Activities: MRSEC-supported faculty presented an overview of their CMSE research in three MIT-sponsored conferences attended by more than 1000 researchers/managers from various companies and universities. In October 2016, the “Materials Day at MIT” program entitled “Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage” was attended by 177 registered guests. This event is run by the Materials Processing Center with CMSE co-organizing the poster session. In addition, our faculty report a total of 47 domestic and international collaborations related to their MRSEC research. Center Management activities: During this funding period, a second seed competition was held: four proposals from assistant professors were chosen for awards including: Jennifer Rupp, Assistant Professor, DMSE: Robert Macfarlane, Assistant Professor, DMSE; Luqiao Liu, Assistant Professor, EECS; and Riccardo Comin, Assistant Professor, Physics. To provide junior faculty a chance to develop leadership skills within our MRSEC, the leadership of IRG-II has been changed: Bradley Olsen will now replace Patrick Doyle as a co-leader with Katharina Ribbeck. 2 1b. Center Research Accomplishments for Current Reporting Period Intellectual Merit: IRG-I research is directed at the development of unique, multi-component nano-structured fibers and nano-particles through the use of a newly discovered processing paradigm involving nonlinear fiber fluid instabilities.
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