2015 RM2N Symposium: UW-Madison and Wisconsin Materials Institute (WMI)

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Regional Materials and Manufacturing Network

(RM2N) and UW-Madison

College Of Engineeringand

Wisconsin Materials Institute

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Madison CoE and WMI are part of RM2N because:• WMI mission is to support multiple materials activities at UW and

beyond, including the Regional Materials and Materials Network

• WMI hosted a materials workshop in December 2013 that lead to the formation of the RM2N• Attendees

57 registered attendees from a range of UW system schools, (e.g., UW-Madison, UW-Stout, UW-Platteville, UW-Milwaukee), companies and institutions (Cameca, Fisher Barton, Forest Products Laboratory).

• RecommendationsWeb Portal to search for available expertise, facilities, opportunities in the regionMethod of sharing equipment resources across the UW system

Materials Resources at CoE- Madison Campus• Materials Science and Engineering Department

• 24 Faculty, Macro to Nano materials, 40+ capstones students in 2015-2016• Expertise in computational materials science

• Research User Facilities• Materials Science Center- largest analytical microscopy facility in WI• Soft Materials Characterization Laboratory• WCAM fab—10000sq.ft. 8 bay clean room.

• Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC).

• NSF sponsored Interdisciplinary materials research, education outreach• 22 campus faculty, 40 graduate students• Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium-21 regional industry members

Unique Materials Capabilities: We can see Single Atoms!

High precision STEM measurement the off-lattice atom displacements (strains) of surface atoms in nanocatalysts in the picometer range!

ATOMS in 2-D!

MRSEC IRG1 – (Kuech, Babcock, Mawst) learning to push “extra” atoms into semiconductor materials from their natural ‘bulk’ states to realize unique and undiscovered functionality.

ATOMS in 3-D!

New Equipment CapabilitiesElemental Imaging XPS for Surface Analysis

Field Emission Cryo STEM for electron tomography!

Industry/research Outreach: • Facilities Use Agreements: Allow industry researchers to negotiate

extended instrument use for well defined projects• Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium: AMIC (MRSEC)• NCD is an Example:

Campus ContactsContact person(s) for answering questions:Jon McCarthy or Susann Elyjjmccarthy@wisc.edu sely@wisc.edu

Contact person for capstone projects:Professor Jim Clum, Materials Science and Engineering: jaclum@wisc.edu

Contact person for internships, coops or recruitment:John Archambault, ECS DirectorAssistant Dean for Student Developmentjohn.archambault@wisc.edu608.262.5691

Contact person for facilities:Dr. Jerry HunterDirector of research user facilitiesjerry.hunter@wisc.edu

Contact person for sponsored research/IP:Deanna DietrichAssociate Dean, Research and Policy Administrationdietrich@engr.wisc.edu 608/265-8030

Contact person(s) for WMI:Professor Tom Kuechkuech@engr.wisc.eduProfessor Dane Morganddmorgan@wisc.edu