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I ndustrial P artnership for R esearch in I nterfacial and M aterials E ngineering

I ndustrial P artnership for R esearch in I nterfacial and M aterials E ngineering. IPRIME History. CIE (Center for Interfacial Engineering) Funded by NSF from 1988 to 1999. Industrial outreach Ongoing industrial interest justified new organization

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I ndustrial P artnership for R esearch in I nterfacial and M aterials E ngineering

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  1. Industrial • Partnership for • Research in • Interfacial and • Materials • Engineering

  2. IPRIME History • CIE (Center for Interfacial Engineering) • Funded by NSF from 1988 to 1999. • Industrial outreach • Ongoing industrial interest justified new organization • IPrime (Industrial Partnership for Interfacial and Materials Engineering) • Legacy organization from CIE.

  3. IPRIME University-Industry partnership based on two-way knowledge exchange • Highly interdisciplinary (54 faculty in 10 departments): • Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics • Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering • Chemical Engineering and Materials Science • Chemistry • Physics • Mechanical Engineering • Biomedical Engineering • Electrical and Computer Engineering • Pharmaceutics • Soil, Water, and Climate • Pre-competitive and non-proprietary • 8 research programs (4 MRSEC and 4 others) • One of the largest MRSECs, Tim Lodge—Director • ~3 million per year (6 yr grant – renewed 2008)

  4. Industrial Support • More than $1,500,000 per year in contributions from 40 companies. • Sponsor Membership ($50,000 per year) • Participation in up to 4 research programs • Possibility of an Industrial Fellow • Participation on the Policy and Planning Board (PPB) • Affiliate Membership ($40,000 per year) • Participation in one 1 research program, no Industrial Fellow • Small company option • $7,500 minimum • Or 0.03% of sales per year, up to $40,000

  5. Members SKC

  6. Denmark:Coloplast Germany:Henkel Japan:Dai Nippon Printing, Ltd.JFE Steel CorporationLintecSekisui Chem.SonySumitomo Chem.

  7. Research Programs • Biocatalysis and Biosynthesis (BB) • Biomaterials and Pharmaceutical Materials (BPM) • Coating Process Fundamentals (CPF) • Magnetic Heterostructures (MH) - MRSEC • Microstructured Polymers (MP) - MRSEC • Nanostructural Materials and Processes (NMP) • Organic Optoelectronic Interfaces (OEI) – MRSEC • Renewable Energy Materials(REM) - MRSEC www.iprime.umn.edu

  8. Why IPRIME? • Partnership • Future employees • Facilities • Technology Transfer

  9. Companies Scientific exchange with academic sector Influence research directions Leverage government funding (MRSEC $3M/yr) Portal/referral to other U resources/capabilities Industrial Fellows Faculty & Students Industry source of research topics Funding support Technology implementation Fosters faculty interactions Industrial Fellows Partnership

  10. Current Industrial Fellows

  11. Companies Early access to students Most work at IPRIME companies after graduation Faculty & Students Early student access to employers Learn industrial research process and interactions Hone communication skills Résumés distributed Future Employees

  12. Companies CharFac (training) Imaging Center Polymer synthesis Polymer Characterization Facility (rheology) Coating Process and Visualization Lab Tissue mechanics Faculty and students In-kind equipment contributions Industrial utilization of facilities Facilities

  13. IT Characterization Facility • Highlights • ~$15 million worth of equipment • Recent new instrumentation in TEM, Raman, ellipsometry, XPS/ESCA • 14 analytical professionals • Training for hands-on use • Custom technique development • ~600 end users per year • 40 UMN departments • 130 faculty research groups • 50-60 companies per year • Workshops and short courses Greg Haugstad, Director www.charfac.umn.edu

  14. (~$15M) CharFac instrumentation www.charfac.umn.edu X-ray Diffraction & Scattering (9) • Bruker AXS (Siemens) D5005 XRD • Siemens D500 X-Ray XRD (multi-sample changer) • Scintag XDS 2000 Theta-Theta XRD; T and RH control • Bruker AXS microdiffractometer with 2D detector • Philips X’pert Pro high-angular resolution XRD • Rapid-data acquisition/combinatorial microdiffractometer • 2D SAXS, 2 meter line • 2D SAXS, 6 meter line with in-line DSC, rheometer, and mechanical strain device, T stage • Anton Paar SAXSess (wide- and small-angle scattering) Proximal Nanoprobes: AFM & related (9) • Two Veeco Nanoscope III Multimodes (EFM, MFM, KPFM, FMM, force volume) on Nano-k platforms; nPoint closed loop • Agilent 5500 and 4500; T, RH, EC control; shear mod, MAC mode, Q control; closed-loop • LFM, tapping/phase, pulsed force mode on all four SPMs • Mobile LabView station: custom capabilities • Probe modification: metal-coating & plasma; microsphere attachment; liquid and vapor phase chemical modification • Hysitron Triboscope (nanomechanical tester interfaced with DI Multimode), stand-alone Triboindentor, and Picoindentor (operate inside TEM for viewing deformation) • MTS Nanoindentor XP • Custom-built micromechanical tester (MMT) • Tencor stylus profilometer Vibrational spectroscopy • Nicolet Magna-IR 750 FTIR spectrometer; microscope, ATR • Witec confocal Raman spectrometer/microscope (514-nm and 752-nm lasers); full spectroscopic imaging in XY and XZ Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopes (10) • JEOL 6500 FE-SEM (EDS, EBSD, cathodolum.) • JEOL 6700 FE-SEM (high-res.) • Hitachi S-900 FE-SEM (cryo, in-lens high-res.) • Hitachi S-4700 FE-SEM (cryo) • Electroscan Environmental SEM • JEOL 1210 TEM (cryo) • JEOL 1200 TEM (biological) • Two FEI Tecnai G2 F30 FEG TEMs (EDX, EELS x 2 to come, STEM, cryo, high-tilt, 3D reconstruction software) • FEI Tecnai T12 TEM (EDX fall 2009) • Two full suites of specimen prep tools (SEM/TEM) for hard and soft materials and biological specimens Ion Beam Analysis • Rutherford backscattering (RBS); FReS, PIXE/PIGE, NRA • NEC 5.1 MeV accelerator, He+, He++ and H+ beams • Phi Evans end station (three ion, X-ray and g-ray detectors), goniometer for channeling analysis Surface analytical • Two X-ray photoelecton spectrometers (XPS/ESCA), one monochromated/small spot/angle resolved (SSI) • Auger spectroscopy (AES; scanning and sputter profiling) • Phi Time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometer • Micro contact angle measurement (fall 2009) Visible Light Techniques • Video and Computer-Enhanced Light Microscopy • Zygo Optical Profilometer • Woollam Spectroscopic Ellipsometer (film thickness and optical constant characterization)

  15. Technology Transfer • Annual Meeting (June 1-4, 2010) • Workshops • Program Reviews • Short courses (additional cost) • Coating Process Fundamentals (June 8-10, 2010) • Rheology (June 13-18, 2010) • Website with members-only features • Industrial Fellows • Special Projects (proprietary research)

  16. Workshops 2010 Mid-Year Workshops (Jan. 13-14) Workshop titles announced in late fall 2009 2010 Annual Meeting (June 1-4) Workshop titles announced in early spring 2010 2009 Annual Meeting (May 26-28) Materials for Convergent Biomedical Products – Ron Siegel, coordinator Coating Characterization: Methods & Challenges – Lorraine Francis, coordinator Sustainable Polymers – Marc Hillmyer, coordinator Flexible Organic Electronics – Dan Frisbie, coordinator 2009 Mid-Year Workshop(s) Polymer Adhesion (Jan. 14) CharFac Lab Demo: (Jan. 15) Particulate Coatings: Processing and Applications (Jan. 15) 2008 Annual Meeting (May 27-May 29) Materials Properties of Pharmaceuticals (BPM-Siegel) Challenges in Liquid Coating Application (CPF-Francis) Nanocomposites (MP-Hillmyer) Colloidal Nanoparticles for Printed Electronics and Photovoltaics (NPT-Kortshagen) Organic Optoelectronics for Energy Efficient Applications (OEI-Frisbie)

  17. www.iprime.umn.edu

  18. Research Programs • Biocatalysis and Biosynthesis (BB) • Biomaterials and Pharmaceutical Materials (BPM) • Coating Process Fundamentals (CPF) • Magnetic Heterostructures (MH) - MRSEC • Microstructured Polymers (MP) - MRSEC • Nanostructural Materials and Processes (NMP) • Organic Optoelectronic Interfaces (OEI) – MRSEC • Renewable Energy Materials(REM) - MRSEC www.iprime.umn.edu

  19. Biocatalysis and Biosynthesis Program - BB InvestigatorDepartmentExpertise Michael Sadowsky* Soil,Water,ClimateEnzymes for bioremediation and bioenergy, enzyme discovery, functional and meta genomics Mark D. Distefano Chem/Med ChemOrganic and Biochem., Protein conjugates for therapeutic and biotechnology applications Romas Kazlauskas Biochem. Biocatalytic synthesis of chemical intermediates and biofuels. Enzymes modification for new reactions Claudia Schmidt-Dannert Biochem.Biosynthetic pathway engineering, metabolic engineering, gene discovery and enzyme engineering Friedrich Srienc CEMS Cell population dynamics, metabolic engineering, synthesis of polymers Lawrence P. Wackett Biochem.Microbial catabolic enzymology, functional genomics, enzyme development for bioremediation and bioenergy Ping WangBioprod/Biosys. Eng. Enzyme engineering and nanotechnology, membrane and interfacial catalysis, bioactive materials and coatings, CO2 conversion to methanol, biofuel cells, biosensors. Applications: Fine and specialty chemical production; Biofuels and biosensors; Bioremediation; Bioactive compounds; Enzyme Evolution, Biodegradable polymers and biocoatings, Pathway engineering *Program Director

  20. Biomaterials and Pharmaceutical Materials - BPM InvestigatorDepartmentExpertise Ron Siegel* Pharm/BME Drug/hormone delivery, biosensing, hydrogels, microfabrication, drug/coating dynamics Efie Kokkoli CEMS Bioadhesion and drug targeting Jayanth Panyam Pharmaceutics Nanoparticulate therapeutic delivery Changquan Calvin Sun Pharmaceutics Crystal and granular properties of solid drugs Raj Suryanarayanan Pharmaceutics Solid state properties of drugs, stability of drug/biomaterial formulations Bob Tranquillo BME/CEMS Fabrication/characterizationof bioartificial artery, cardiovascular valve, myocardial patch Chun Wang BME Biomaterial/tissue interactions, gene delivery, immunotherapy Wei Shen BME Bioactive materials • composition-structure-functional property relationships and microstructural mechanical models of native and bioartificial tissues • cell-based fabrication of bioartificial tissues • novel tissue mechanical testing and analysis methods • biomaterials for drug delivery and tissue engineering *Program Director

  21. Coating Process Fundamentals—CPF Investigator Expertise Lorraine F. Francis*Solidification, stress development, microstructure, properties Marcio S. Carvalho* Fluid mechanics, rheology, numerical methods Satish Kumar Transport processes, interfacial phenomena, microfluidics Alon V. McCormick Curing, thermodynamics & kinetics, NMR, stress development H.Ted Davis Drying, porous media, cryo-microscopy, wetting and spreading Chris Macosko Rheology, polymer processing David Norris Nanomaterials, photonics, colloids Wieslaw Suszynski** Coating process experiments, apparatus, flow visualization Michael Tsapatsis Zeolite coatings, separations *Pontifica Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro **Research Engineer and Laboratory Coordinator *Program Director

  22. Magnetic Heterostructures—MH Investigator Department Expertise Paul Crowell* PHYS Magneto-optics/time-resolved studies E. Dan Dahlberg PHYS Thin film magnetism, transport, MFM Allen M. Goldman PHYS Electron tunneling/transport, MBE Christopher Leighton CEMS Magnetic films/heterostructures, transport Bethanie J. H. Stadler ECE Magneto-optical materials, thin films Randall Victora ECE Theory/modeling of magnetic materials Jianping Wang ECE Magnetic materials for recording and spintronics Renata Wentzcovitch CEMS Electronic structure calculations Develop a fundamental understanding of interfaces in magnetic heterostructures, with a focus on spin transport and dynamics *Program Director

  23. Synthesis, characterization, dynamics, processing, properties, and theory Microstructured Polymers - MP Investigator Department Expertise Marc A. Hillmyer* CHEM Polymer synthesis and characterization (Director: Polymer Synthesis Facility) Frank S. Bates CEMS Thermodynamics, scattering, synthesis Timothy P. Lodge CHEM/CEMS Polymer dynamics, solutions, scattering Chris Macosko CEMS Rheology, processing David C. Morse CEMS Theory and modeling David Giles CEMS staff Polymer Characterization Facility Affiliated Investigators Ed Cussler (CEMS), Lorraine Francis (CEMS), Dan Frisbie (CEMS), Tom Hoye (CHEM), Efie Kokkoli (CEMS), Chris Leighton (CEMS), Ron Siegel (PHRM), Bill Tolman (CHEM) *Program Director

  24. Nanostructural Materials & Processes—NMP Investigator Department Expertise Alon McCormick* CEMS Reaction Engineering of Materials Synthesis; Spectroscopy; Molecular Simulation H. Ted Davis CEMS Colloid and Interface Science; Statistical Mechanics C. Daniel Frisbie CEMS Molecular Materials and Interfaces; Molecular Electronics Wayne Gladfelter CHEM Materials Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Scanning Probe Microscopy Greg Haugstad CHAR FAC AFM Scanning Probe Microscopy(Director, Characterization Facility) David Norris CEMS Photonic Crystals; Nanocrystals; Colloids Andreas Stein CHEM Solid State Chemistry of Porous Materials Associated Investigators: Michael Tsapatsis – Frank Bates – Lee Penn synthesis, phase behavior,structure, and performance of surfactants and self-assembled molecular and colloid systems

  25. Organic Optoelectronic Interfaces - OEI Organic Optoelectronic Interfaces - OEI Investigator Department Expertise C. Daniel Frisbie CEMS Organic electronics, OFETs, AFM David Blank CHEM Ultrafast optical spectroscopy Jean-Luc Brédas CHEM (GA Tech)Computational quantum chemistry Chris Douglas CHEM Organic synthesis Russell Holmes CEMS OLEDs, Solar cells, Thin film growth Paul Ruden ECE Device modeling Xiaoyang Zhu CHEM Ultrafast photoemission spectroscopy Investigator Department Expertise C. Daniel Frisbie* CEMS Organic electronics, OFETs, AFM David Blank CHEM Ultrafast optical spectroscopy Jean-Luc Brédas CHEM (GA Tech)Computational quantum chemistry Chris Douglas CHEM Organic synthesis Russell Holmes CEMS OLEDs, Solar cells, Thin film growth Paul Ruden ECE Device modeling Xiaoyang Zhu CHEM Ultrafast photoemission spectroscopy Organic synthesis, thin film growth and characterization, spectroscopy, devices, electronic structure theory & modeling *Program Director

  26. Renewable Energy Materials - REM Investigator Department Expertise Uwe Kortshagen* ME Si nanoparticle based solar cells & thermoelectrics Eray Aydil* CEMS Solar cells, batteries & photocatalysis Aditya Bhan CEMSCatalysis, biofuels, biomass conversion & photocatalysis C. Daniel Frisbie CEMS Organic solar cells Russell Holmes CEMS Small molecule organic solar cells David Norris CEMS Thermo-photovoltaics & nanostructured solar cells Organic solar cells, thermoelectrics, batteries, catalysis, photocatalysis, biofuels, biomass conversion & photocatalysis, thermo-photovoltaics *Program Director(s)

  27. CharFac Staff 12.5 FTE CharFac, 11 PhD www.charfac.umn.edu Technical Specialists Support staff

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