Centers and collaborations

Department research laboratories

https://acrc.manufacturing.uci.edu/

ACRC manufacturing Ohio State and UC Irvine

Advanced Casting Research Center

Director of Ohio State affiliate: Alan Luo

ACRC is one of the largest industry-university consortia in North America dedicated to collaborative research in metal processing and manufacturing. Our focus is metal casting and digital manufacturing. Ohio State University is an affiliate of ACRC.

https://mse.osu.edu/acrl

Advanced Ceramics Research Laboratory

Director: Perena Gouma

Ceramic science and engineering focuses on the powder and thin film processing of ceramics with emphasis on the liquid, solid, and vapor phase synthesis of semiconducting metal oxides.

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photo of Helios NanoLab 600 DualBeam CEMAS

Center for the Accelerated Maturation of Materials

Director: Hamish Fraser

The purpose of CAMM is to integrate computational methods with experimental techniques. This work looks to speed the often lengthy development time involved in bringing a theoretical material through the development stage to final fabrication and use.

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Ahadi Research Group

Director: Kaveh Ahadi

Our lab focuses on high-quality thin films and heterostructures of quantum materials, which we grow by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). We are interested in functional and high spin-orbit oxides and topological materials.

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Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence

Director: Nate Ames

The Ohio State University's Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence (CDME) works with companies and researchers to translate new technologies into real-world, market-ready manufactured products.

https://cemas.osu.edu/

Semanti Mukhopadhyay Ohio State Materials Science and Engineering CEMAS

Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis

Director: Dave McComb

CEMAS is the preeminent materials characterization hub for industry and academia.

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Center for Superconducting and Magnetic Materials

Director: Michael Sumption

Our emphasis is superconducting materials, including their formation and structure as well as their magnetic and electrical properties. CSMM has research programs in various aspects of superconducting materials, including MgB2, Nb3Sn, and YBCO.

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Center for Weldability Evaluation

Director: Boian Alexandrov

Addresses failures and loss of properties in welds of advanced alloys and facilitates implementation of advanced alloys in critical welded structures. And more.

https://u.osu.edu/chowdhury.24/

Femto-Solid Labortory Enam Chowdhury Ohio State Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Femto-Solid Laboratory

Director: Enam Chowdhury

Femtosecond laser induced damage fundamentals and applications, probing laser damage with atomic spatial and femtosecond temporal resolution, high energy density conditions and more.

https://fcc.osu.edu/

Fontana Corrosion Center

Director: Gerald Frankel

Focuses on the study of corrosion in an effort to protect materials from the harmful effects of environmental degradation and how microstructure affects corrosion and more.

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Cottrell atmosphere by Cr. T.M. Smith et. al, Acta Mater, 100 pp 19-31, (2015)

Ghazisaeidi Group

Director: Maryam Ghazisaeidi

Uses atomic-scale computations- electronic structures and classical potentials- coupled to larger length-scale continuum and statistical mechanics to improve and predict the properties of existing and new materials.

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photo of disc and microchips Tyler Grassman Research Lab Ohio State

Grassman Research Group

Director: Tyler Grassman

Focuses on the development, production, and characterization of novel materials and combinations of materials for electronic and photonic applications. Of particular focus is the area of photovoltaics, as well as other clean energy technologies.

https://hammer.osu.edu/

Hybrid Autonomous Manufacturing, Moving from Evolution to Revolution

Director: Glenn Daehn

NSF's HAMMER is developing a new approach to design and manufacturing, putting product needs first and then finding new manufacturing pathways based on the agility of artisans and reproducibility of machines.

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photo of a weld between JSC 590 steel and 5052 Al created by automated VFAW at Ohio State, Brian Ufferman

Impulse Manufacturing Laboratory

Director: Glenn Daehn

IML develops novel manufacturing solutions using impulse-based processes to shape and join materials in unique ways by moving metals at high speeds.

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Micro-resistance spot welding of dissimilar platinum to niobium wires Wei Zhang Ohio State welding engineering

Integrated Computational Materials Engineering for Welding

Director: Wei Zhang

ICME-Welding employs physics-based research in modeling to provide insights into manufacturing processes and materials behavior.

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Jinwoo Hwang's Research Group

Director: Jinwoo Hwang

This research group develops new atomic-scale characterization techniques based on scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) to investigate the structural origins of a wide range of important properties of materials.

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LMML tensile testing Ohio State materials science and engineering

Lightweight Materials and Manufacturing Research Laboratory

Director: Alan Luo

Research typically applies to automotive and aerospace applications where efficiency is a function of material weight. Manufacturing processes and materials sustainability are also large components of research and development.

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Simulated material flow field in SRFSW with CFD for complex tool geometries Xu Liu Ohio State Welding Engineering

ManufacturingX Laboratory

Director: Xun Liu

ManufacturingX Lab focuses on development and analysis of advanced manufacturing processes, which integrate mechanical, material and computational modeling multidisciplinary research fields.

https://u.osu.edu/myersgroup/sample-page/iii-nitride-optoelectronics/

Roberto Myers Research Laboratory

Director: Roberto Myers

Research at Roberto Myers Research Laboratory focuses on optoelectronics, epitaxial heterostructures, spintronics, and thermal-spin transport

https://ma2jic.osu.edu/

Ohio State University undergrad welding in space research team spring 2023

Manufacturing & Materials Joining Innovation Center

Director: Antonio Ramirez

A NSF I/UCRC, Ma2JIC focuses on closing the gap between new material development and joining of these materials, specifically in the energy industry,

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Center for Performance and Design of Nuclear Waste Forms and Containers

Director: Gerald Frankel

WastePD was established as an Energy Frontier Research Center. Their focus is on materials for long-term storage of nuclear waste and the science underlying design of degradation-resistant waste forms.

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Photo of Yessica Jimenez, Ohio State Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Windl Group

Director: Wolfgang Windl

Windl Group works in the area of computational materials science, with a focus on atomistic simulations, especially within density-functional theory.

Multidisciplinary centers

The Artificially Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (AIMS) Lab is where industry professionals and academia come together to study and develop manufacturing systems that work with, and are controlled by, different types of artificial intelligence.

Formed in 2019, the AIMS Lab provides an industry-relevant venue to develop and optimize novel, hybridized manufacturing processes, design and test custom sensors and controls, study and advance human-robot interaction, benchmark cognitive computing frameworks, and define security and ethics based protocols. The lab fits into CDME's core mission of working with industry partners in applied research and supporting undergraduate student development during that research.

In the AIMS Lab, researchers are leveraging the robustness of proprietary automation systems with the flexibility of open-source technologies to support the next generation of manufacturing.

Director: Steve Levesque

November 13, 2023 | Announcement by Ohio State News

The Ohio State University was joined by Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, congressional leaders, Honda, Schaeffler Americas and JobsOhio officials Monday to announce the creation of a new battery cell research and development center.

Slated to open in April 2025, the lab will accelerate the domestic development of battery cell materials and manufacturing technologies while providing an experiential learning setting for advanced battery technology workforce development.

With $22 million in commitments to date, this project will include the renovation of a 25,000-square-foot facility in Ohio State’s innovation district into a dedicated battery cell research, production and education support space. The center will be managed and operated at Ohio State by the Institute for Materials and Manufacturing Research (IMR).

The Center for Advanced Semiconductor Fabrication Research and Education (CAFE) is a multi-institutional research and education center supported by the Intel Corporation via its Semiconductor Education and Research Program for Ohio. The focus of CAFE is on advancing the state of semiconductor fabrication for next-generation device technologies, leveraging world-leading research expertise and capabilities available within our team.

Lead Principal Investigator: Steven Ringel

The Center for Automotive Research (CAR) provides world-class education for the next generation of automotive industry leaders, through on-campus learning and continuous professional development. This center serves as a catalyst for innovation in automotive technology through collaborative, interdisciplinary research; and support economic development, regionally and nationally. CAR faculty, students and research staff have been engaged in research and education related to vehicle automation and connectivity and vehicle electrification for over 20 years. They have strong partnerships with faculty who are engaged in cybersecurity, machine learning, artificial intelligence, traffic and transportation systems, and travel behavior and are dynamically creating new partnerships with industry and government agencies. Director: Giorgio Rizzoni

The Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence (CDME) was established to provide university and industrial partners with the necessary resources to rapidly transition technology to higher levels of readiness using four strategic activities:

Conducting applied research and development for university, industry and government partners
Leveraging advanced equipment to conduct standardized testing and machining services
Managing full-scale manufacturing user facilities
Providing undergraduate students with hands-on manufacturing & engineering experience while they complete their degree

CDME is staffed by two dozen industry-hardened engineers, technicians, program managers and roughly 40 undergraduate student employees. The center averages 50 concurrent projects with an average duration of four to six months. Director: Nate Ames

The Center for Emergent Materials (CEM) at The Ohio State University is a National Science Foundation (NSF) supported Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC). CEM performs integrated research on emergent materials and phenomena in magnetoelectronics, creating new paradigms in computing and information storage. The research activities conducted at the CEM focus on a new understanding of electron-spin injection and transport, and the synthesis and exploitation of multifunctional properties of innovative double perovskite heterostructures. Education is an important component of our research activities. Our programs take an interactive, constructionist approach to address the nature and cognitive cause of the misconception of materials science concepts. Director: P. Chris Hammel

The Institute for Materials Research (IMR) represents more than 150 faculty members and research groups engaged in materials research from five colleges and more than a dozen departments at Ohio State. With a network of state-of-the-art facilities throughout these departments and colleges, IMR provides coordination for a dynamic, world-class and multi-disciplinary materials research community that incorporates science and engineering from the sub-nano to macro scales, from soft to hard materials, from basic phenomena to devices, and from biology and medicine to agriculture, energy, communications, transportation and computation. Director: Steven A. Ringel, PhD.

The Medical Modeling, Materials and Manufacturing Lab (M4 Lab) is where medicine, advanced manufacturing, and other materials-related research areas converge to pursue innovative approaches to advance health and well-being in our society.

The M4 Lab brings together an interdisciplinary team of experts under one roof at the Nanotech West Lab user facility on The Ohio University’s West Campus. The group includes representatives from the College of Medicine’s Department of Otolaryngology, the College of Engineering’s Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence (CDME), and the Institute for Materials and Manufacturing Research (IMR).

At the M4 Lab, biomedical engineering and clinical experts utilize 3D printing to find innovative engineering solutions for real-world needs in clinical medicine. Their current efforts aim to benefit patients undergoing new, uncommon, or complex surgeries at The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center by providing access to 3D anatomic models. These devices help medical professionals with surgical planning, patient education, and medical training.

Micro- and nanotechnology and the ability to transform both research and industry applications are the focus of this innovative facility on west campus. From e-beam Lithography (EBL) to nanolithography, device fabrication, MOCVD epitaxy, device processing, clean room processing and more, Nanotech West Lab has the technology and the know-how to support your project. Current research programs at Ohio State span the fields of electronics, optics, advanced materials and characterization, energy, biology and medicine. If you have research to conduct, a market to conquer, or a product you'd like to evolve, Nanotech West Lab is the place to make it happen. Director: John A. Carlin, PhD

The Simulation Innovation and Modeling Center (SIMCenter) is an interdisciplinary research center for the virtual simulation and modeling of product performance and manufacturing processes in the College of Engineering. SIMCenter’s mission is to advance computer-aided engineering techniques in research, design, and manufacturing. Located in Smith Laboratory, SIMCenter combines expertise from several College of Engineering departments—mechanical and aerospace, electrical, welding, chemical and biomolecular, materials science, and integrated systems—and a partnership with the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). Interim Director: Nate Ames

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