Presentation at the 2015 RM2N Symposium of the Wisconsin Materials Institute and College of Engineering.

1. Regional Materials and
Manufacturing Network
(RM2N) and
UW-Madison
College Of Engineering
and
Wisconsin Materials Institute
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2. • 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).
• Recommendations
Web Portal to search for available expertise, facilities, opportunities in the
region
Method of sharing equipment resources across the UW system

3. • 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

4. High precision STEM measurement
the off-lattice atom displacements
(strains) of surface atoms in
nanocatalysts in the picometer range!
MRSEC IRG1 – (Kuech, Babcock, Mawst)
learning to push “extra” atoms into
semiconductor materials from their
natural ‘bulk’ states to realize unique and
undiscovered functionality.

5. Elemental Imaging
XPS for Surface
Analysis
Field Emission Cryo STEM
for electron tomography!

6. • 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:

7. Contact person(s) for answering questions:
Jon McCarthy or Susann Ely
jjmccarthy@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 Director
Assistant Dean for Student Development
john.archambault@wisc.edu
608.262.5691
Contact person for facilities:
Dr. Jerry Hunter
Director of research user facilities
jerry.hunter@wisc.edu
Contact person for sponsored research/IP:
Deanna Dietrich
Associate Dean, Research and Policy
Administration
dietrich@engr.wisc.edu 608/265-8030
Contact person(s) for WMI:
Professor Tom Kuech
kuech@engr.wisc.edu
Professor Dane Morgan
ddmorgan@wisc.edu