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Principal Investigators
Frisbie has expertise in fabrication and characterization of organic thin film transistors (TFTs) and novel high capacitance dielectrics. He also employs aerosol jet printing to print circuits on flexible substrates. Frisbie is the recipient of a CAREER Award (1996), a Packard Fellowship (1997), a McKnight Land Grant Professorship (1997), a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1999), and an NSF Special Creativity Award (2008). He became a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota in 2012. He serves as the lead PI for the MURI team.
Between 1990 and 2001 Dodabalapur was with Bell Laboratories where he pioneered the application of organic semiconductors in flexible electronics. He is currently the Ashley H Priddy Centennial Professor of Engineering. His research is in the areas of thin-film devices, device physics, circuits, sensors and flexible electronics. He is the co-recipient of an ACS Award for team innovation.
Francis has broad expertise in the field of liquid applied coatings, and specific expertise in drying, coating microstructure and property development. As program leader for the Coating Process Fundamentals Program at Minnesota, she has gained experience with a variety of industrial coating processes. She has received an NSF Young Investigator Award (1993), a McKnight Land Grant Professorship (1993), and a Taylor Distinguished Professorship (2008).
He has expertise in human brain-machine interfacing, multi-array data acquisition and signal processing, electrical mapping and imaging, and human physiology. He has developed a novel non-invasive brain-machine interface enabling flight control of a virtual helicopter in 3-D space by human thought. Bin is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (1999), a University of Illinois Scholar Award (1999), an AHA Established Investigator Award (2001), and a Distinguished McKnight University Professorship (2009). He is a Fellow of IEEE (2004), the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (2005), and the Institute of Physics (2009).
Hersam has expertise in carbon-based nanoelectronic materials including carbon nanotubes and graphene. He has developed a scalable method that allows these nanomaterials to be separated based on their physical and electronic structure, and co-founded the start-up company NanoIntegris based on this technology. Selected honors include the Beckman Young Investigator Award (2001), NSF CAREER Award (2001), ARO Young Investigator Award (2005), ONR Young Investigator Award (2005), Sloan Research Fellowship (2005), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2005), and MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award (2010).
Kim has expertise in digital, mixed-signal, and memory circuit design in silicon and non-silicon technologies. He spent a year at Intel Corporation prior to joining the University of Minnesota where he performed research on low power circuit techniques and on-chip leakage monitors. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (2009), a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship (2008), 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Awards (2008, 2009), IBM Faculty Partnership Awards (2006, 2007, 2009), and an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Outstanding Author Award (2005).
Lewis has expertise in digital fabrication of soft functional materials. She has developed multiple classes of functional inks for printed electronics, self-healing materials, and 3D photonics. Lewis is the recipient of an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award (1994), a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (2005), a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2007), and the recipient of the Langmuir Lecture Award from the American Chemical Society (2009).
Marks is an expert in the design, synthesis, characterization, and implementation of organic and inorganic materials for printed electronics. His group developed the first high-mobility, environmentally stable molecular and polymeric n-type materials for organic electronics. His group also developed new low-temperature processing methods for oxide semiconductors which yield ultra-high performance, optically transparent, and mechanically flexible TFTs. Marks is the co-founder of the start-up company Polyera Inc. in Skokie IL, which develops inks and other materials for printed flexible electronics. He has won many awards, including the National Medal of Science, the Prince of Asturias Prize of Spain, and the Von Hippel Award of the Materials Research Society.
Nealey holds the Shoemaker Chair at UW and is the founding director of the NSF-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center in Templated Synthesis and Assembly at the Nanoscale. His research interests include nanofabrication techniques, advanced lithography and directed self-assembly, development of imaging materials for alternative lithographic strategies, and material properties of nanoscopic macromolecular structures. He is a fellow of the APS, and recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the UW Romnes Fellowship, and the ACS Arthur K. Doolittle Award.
De Pablo’s expertise centers on the modeling and simulation of soft materials, including polymers and complex fluids. He has developed some of the most widely used simulation algorithms for polymeric systems, and he has also put forth some of the fastest algorithms for simulation of the transport and flow of suspensions of rigid and flexible macromolecules and nanoparticles. De Pablo is the recipient of an NSF Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (1996), a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1997), a Fellow of the APS (2004), and the recipient of a Marie Curie Professorship from the European Community (2009). He holds the H. Curler Distinguished Chaired Professorship and serves as director of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC). |
Research Assistants
Approximately 25 postdoctoral, graduate student and staff researchers have been recruited to carry out the technical aspects of the work. University of Minnesota Northwestern University Harvard University University of Chicago University of Texas, Austin |
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