Overview of the Institute of Materials Science (IMS)

February 20, 2009

Presented toSOE Faculty Meeting

A clear definition of the mission and commitments of IMS.

INSTITUTE OF MATERIALSSCIENCE

U-136

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

97 N. EAGLEVILLE ROAD

STORRS, CONNECTICUT 06269-3136

HARRIS L. MARCUS

DIRECTOR

hmarcus@mail.ims.uconn.edu

(860) 486-4623 PHONE

(860) 486-4745 FAX

The Institute of Materials Science (IMS)

The Institute of Materials Science

(IMS)IMS was mandated by the State Legislative in 1965 to

provides exceptional opportunity for the conduct of advanced

interdisciplinary research, graduate level education and

outreach (IMS Associates Program, etc.) in the materials sciences

“and engineering” in areas of importance to Connecticut's and our

nation's needs.

The core activity of IMS is housed in an ~ 80,000 square

feet building built in 1968 and 15,000 square feet building built in

2001 that houses extensive materials research instrumentation

(~$20M replacement value) and laboratories and ~30 resident

faculty.

NOTE: Not defined as a UCONN wide service facility.

What Makes IMS Research and Outreach Work ?

• Faculty (~30 doing their research primarily in IMS) • Students (> 120 students and Postdocs)

• Staff in Major Facilities and operations (i.e. financial)

• IMS Instrumentation FacilityLaboratory SpaceResearch Instrumentation in that space.

Research Staff for Central Laboratories

All Instrumentation in IMS Shared by and for all Resident IMS Researchers who support this activity by putting all their instrumentation under IMS and operate in IMS space.

Also available to the overall UCONN IMS membership (~100 Faculty) (Will discuss How)

• IMS Associates Program ~ 30 Companies(About 50 served in various manners in FY 08)

• Limited Service for a Fee supplied to industry primarily Connecticut industry.

Above represents a major source of funds to keep IMS facilities operational and represents use of the central as well as resident IMS Faculty laboratories.

IMS Outreach With Instrumentation Capability

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IMS: an Interdisciplinary Academic Research Institute

Faculty From Materials Science and Engineering •

Chemical Engineering•Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering•Chemistry•

Physics•Pharmacy

Molecular and Cell Biology•UConn Health Center

• Represents Departments that have IMS resident facultythat are ~ equally represented by the SOE and CLAS

MS and PhD Degrees in Materials Research in IMSEstablished as the educational part of IMS early in its development.

Fully housed in IMS using all of IMS’ laboratories and instrumentation.

1- Materials Science and Engineering Program(Grew out of Metallurgy Dept. when IMS started, changed to

Metallurgy and Materials Engineering Dept. and then to MS&E)

2- Polymer Science Program

3- Materials Science Program(Extends beyond IMS proper)

Representative IMS Materials Research Areas in

Nano-materials/nanotechnology(Heavily involved in promoting State Programs)Energy (Major solar energy DOE Proposal outwith 20+ Faculty, ~1/2 SOE & 1/2 CLAS)

Metals, Ceramics and Composites

Polymer Science (Including polymeric nano-materials)

Biomaterials/Environmental (Joint with Health Center)

Drug & Sensor Design(Large sensor Army grant with SOE, CLAS,

Pharmacy and Biology Faculty involved)

IMS RESIDENT FACULTY CURENT SOURCES OF

EXTERNAL FUNDING FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

ON ADVA NCED MATERIALS National Science Foundation

Office of Naval Research Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Army Research Office DARPA

Department of Energy National Institute of Health

NASA • • •

State of Connecticut Connecticut Industries

Foundations National and International Industries Coupled with National Laboratories

• • •

IMS Newer Research Instrumentation

~ $20M Replacement Value Overall

• X-Ray Laboratory-

Three powder diffraction systems.

Protein crystal x-ray system

• Electron Microscopy Laboratory

200KV High Resolution TEM

120KV new TEM (Provosts competitive funding)

Field Emission SEM with X-Ray

$2M Focused Ion Beam SEM Being Installed

($700K From Competitive Federal Grant)

• Multiple Wavelength Laser Raman Spectrometer

(Also applied to residual stress measurements)

• Soft Materials Clean Rooms and Device Prep Capability

• Multiple mechanical test systems

• Polymer Spectroscopic Systems-UV/VIS etc.

• Machine and Electronic Shops (CAM, and Turning Center)

• 500 (air)/50 (vacuum) Pound Casting Capability

• Thermal analysis equipment (TGA, DSC, etc.)

• AFM/STM- 3 new systems, 1 hard vacuum.

• 500 MHz Liquid and 2-300 MHz Solid State NMR

• Twin Screw Polymer Extruder

Numerous other instruments and upgrades in and coming.

<http://www.ims.uconn.edu/facilities/facilities_list.html>

Prioritization of use of IMS LaboratoriesResident IMS researchers have First Priority whenever overload on instruments occur.(Co PI’s have priority on specific instruments

funded in competition)

Other UCONN faculty have access to instrumentation when the Faculty Advisor advises IMS of need.

NOTE: At present only certain instruments have use costs associated with them. WHEN INSTRUMENTATION USAGE IS PROPOSED IMS SHOULD BE IDENTIFIED ON OSP ROUTING FORM AND SOME INSTRUMENT TIME PUT INTO BUDGET.

IMS instrumentation usage by non-IMS-resident UCONN Faculty

Steps required to have access to IMS instrumentation• Faculty member usually joins IMS• Faculty member notifies IMS of the need for

instrumentation support.• Faculty member identifies for IMS the students/postdocsthat may need to use instrumentation and source of funding.• Each faculty member should assign one student/postdoc from the group to get total training for extensive usage of any major instrument.• User must pass IMS safety exam before using labs.• User must be properly trained following the rules

associated with each lab/instrument. • Scheduling is then done in lab with appropriate prioritization if and when necessary.

• Get more space for the $ by renovating.

• Design stage starting.

• Completion was scheduled by about 2011-2012 by but current UCONN 21st Century funding may be delayed.

• We continually strive to upgrade MS&E instrumentation and hope to do some of it with the upgrade of the IMS laboratories.

Renovated 40 Year Old Gant Building

(IMS, Math and Physics)

The Institute of Materials Science

QUESTIONS?