Materials Science Department at OSU Awarded $6.25 Million in Funding for Multidisciplinary University Initiative
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The Ohio State Department of Materials Science and Engineering has been awarded a five-year $6.25 million grant through the Multidisciplinary Research Initiative (MURI) funded through the Army Research Office and Office of Naval Research.
Professor Roberto Myers is spearheading the program, which will explore materials with spin mediated thermal properties. This initiative aims to develop new materials with extraordinary thermal properties based on spin and could potentially lead to new materials and devices for thermal management and waste heat recovery.
MURI supports basic research in the science and engineering areas intersecting more than one traditional discipline, and the program is focused on multidisciplinary team efforts to address issues of critical concern to the Department of Defense and the Air Force.
Roberto Myers, professor for materials science and engineering, computer and electrical engineering, and physics at OSU, is leading the interdisciplinary, inter-university team throughout this five-year endeavor. His assembled experts include OSU’s Joseph Heremans from the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, David Cahill of University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana, David Awschalom from the University of Chicago, Li Shi from the University of Texas at Austin, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak from the University of California, Los Angeles.
“The grant sends the message that the federal government realizes the importance of exploring materials science of new spin-based thermal effects where heat can push magnetic moments through material, and contrarily, waves of magnetic moments in materials can transport heat,” Roberto Myers, MSE professor, said. “This is the first large research initiative in spin and thermal effects in the United States.”
This expert team combines extensive knowledge and experience from the world of thermoelectrics and thermal transport in solids, as well as from the fields of magnetism and spin-transport to identify structure properties and relationships for materials exhibiting spin-mediated thermal properties.
For updates regarding this research initiative, keep visiting the MSE website.
Professor Roberto Myers is spearheading the program, which will explore materials with spin mediated thermal properties. This initiative aims to develop new materials with extraordinary thermal properties based on spin and could potentially lead to new materials and devices for thermal management and waste heat recovery.
MURI supports basic research in the science and engineering areas intersecting more than one traditional discipline, and the program is focused on multidisciplinary team efforts to address issues of critical concern to the Department of Defense and the Air Force.
Roberto Myers, professor for materials science and engineering, computer and electrical engineering, and physics at OSU, is leading the interdisciplinary, inter-university team throughout this five-year endeavor. His assembled experts include OSU’s Joseph Heremans from the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, David Cahill of University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana, David Awschalom from the University of Chicago, Li Shi from the University of Texas at Austin, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak from the University of California, Los Angeles.
“The grant sends the message that the federal government realizes the importance of exploring materials science of new spin-based thermal effects where heat can push magnetic moments through material, and contrarily, waves of magnetic moments in materials can transport heat,” Roberto Myers, MSE professor, said. “This is the first large research initiative in spin and thermal effects in the United States.”
This expert team combines extensive knowledge and experience from the world of thermoelectrics and thermal transport in solids, as well as from the fields of magnetism and spin-transport to identify structure properties and relationships for materials exhibiting spin-mediated thermal properties.
For updates regarding this research initiative, keep visiting the MSE website.