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Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures

An Interdisciplinary/Interinstitutional Research and Educational Center

“What Works: Lesson Learned by a Successful Interdisciplinary Center”

A Cross Cutting Theme via Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

Dr. Jag SankarDistinguished University Professor and White House Millennium Researcher

Director- CAMSS(NSF-CREST, DoD-CNN, NSF-NSEC)

Fort IRC Bldg., Suite 242, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA



VisionVisionCAMSS will be an educational and research resource of excellence for NC A&T State University, the State of North Carolina and the Nation in the field of advanced materials; including but not limited to smart, multifunctional and composite materials. This will be achieved through the collaboration of academe, government agencies and private industry in developing basic and applied research programs and commercially relevant technological innovations with a focus on student participation and learning. This Center’s research and educational thrusts will directly supports A&T’s FUTURES "Uncompromising Excellence" initiative to prepare students for careers in a dynamic, global, knowledge-based economy that demands life-long learning.

MissionMission• Develop intellectual capital through interdisciplinary learning, discovery, engagement and

operational excellence

• Achieve excellence in basic & applied research

• Enhance undergraduate and graduate curricula

• Provide hands-on research experiences for students

• Generate commercially relevant technological innovations

• Support the career development of faculty and the professional community at large

• Offer research and educational services to industry

• Integrate into Federal Diversity-Focused Programs (NSF, DOD, NASA, DOE, FAA, and others) to address the STEM Continuum

• Serve as a model of collaboration between academe, government and industry at the national and global levels



CAMSS OrganizationCAMSS Organization



Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures (CAMSS)


Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures (CAMSS)


NSF-CRESTNSF-CREST DoD-CNNDoD-CNN NSF-NSECNSF-NIRT

NSF-NSECNSF-NIRT

Other NSF, AFRL, NASA-NIA

and Others

Other NSF, AFRL, NASA-NIA

and Others

Research and Educational Thrust Areas:

• Surface Engineered Materials • Integrated Composite Technologies• Nanoengineered Materials• Polymer Engineering• Solid Oxide Fuel Cells• Catalysis in Energy Production and Consumption• Biomaterials and Bioengineering• Structural Health Monitoring• Sensor Technologies• Electronics Materials and Devices• Computation, Modeling and Visualization

Leveraging and Strategic Sharing of Resources

Maximum output for each $ spent

Innovative thinking that cuts across areas

Fundamental science that can nucleate research in multiple disciplines

Each thrust led by a single person (CAMSS next generation of leaders)

NSF- US/Europe Materials Research CollaborationNSF- Major Research Instrumentation

NSF-STTR and NSF- NUE



FacilitiesFacilities• Pulsed Laser Deposition Facility• Fuel Cell Processing Laboratory• Coatings Synthesis Laboratory• Bio/Polymer Laboratory• Composite Processing Laboratory• Materials Processing and Sample Preparation Laboratory• Microscopy and Surface Analysis Facility• Electron Microscopy Laboratory• Computation and Visualization Lab• Nanoindentation Facility• Mechanical Testing /High-Temperature Testing Facility• Structural Health Monitoring Research Laboratory• X-ray Diffraction Facility• Physical Property Measurement Lab• Catalysis Facility• Electronic Materials Laboratory • Under Establishment:

– Magnetron Deposition Facility (finished)– Direct Write Nano-Fludics Analysis Facility– Micro-Raman facility

Open-door state of-the-art research facility that creates a hub for interdisciplinary knowledge sharing

A center with many thrust area labs, feeding each other, yet can stand alone.

A research facility without boundaries

Thrust leaders have their own labs, research scientists and research infrastructure - yet shared



Participant/User MixParticipant/User Mix(direct supported and leveraged)(direct supported and leveraged)

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CAMSS Ethics lay a strong foundation for its growth - it is adaptable to innovative technologies and education and is Ready to Contribute with Customer Focus



Publications and PresentationsPublications and Presentations

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Peer- reviewed Publications

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Active in publication

Cross Functional Thinking and Team Work give opportunity for more publications in different areas

Each thrust leader is strong in their area, aggressive for high quality achievement (passion) yet clearly understands the power of team work



Special Publications by CAMSS MembersSpecial Publications by CAMSS Members

• 2006 - Composites B Journal, Elsevier Publication, Special Journal issue on "Nanolaminates" V 731, (11 countries with papers from world’s leading researchers)

• 2005 - A book on “Nanoengineering of Structural, Functional and Smart Materials”, CRC Press

• 2005 - ASME IMECE Symposium (Nov 2005) Full peer reviewed CD publication• 2004 - Composites Part B Journal, Elsevier, Special Journal issue on "Nanocomposites"

V 35B, #2.• 2004 MRS – Symposium E, “Integration of Advanced Micro- and Nanoelectronic Devices

– Critical Issues and Solutions,” April 12-16, 2004, CA, ISBN 1-55899-761-X.• 2004 ASME IMECE, Anaheim CA, “Innovative Processing for Engineered Composites”

(Full Peer Reviewed Proceedings) ASME 2004.• 2003 ASME IMECE, Washington D C, “Processing, Characterization and Modeling of

Multifunctional Materials” (Full Peer Reviewed Proceedings) ASME 2003.

Recognition of CAMSS research provides opportunities for its members to provide international leadership in facilitating intellectual exchange on focused research areas at a high level. This includes technical books, monographs and special issues of journals with worldwide distribution.

“Quality intertwined with integrity and broad thinking”



PATENTS AND DISCLOSURESPATENTS AND DISCLOSURES• 2006 – Invention Disclosure “Novel Gold-Silver Nanocatalyst (for Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide at

Ambient Temperature)/ Process for its Synthesis” (8/29/2006, #EN0045 0806)• 2006 - V. Harinath, C. Banerjee and J. Sankar, “Encapsulation of Catalyst in Inert Porous Matrices for

Removal of Carbon Monoxide from Aerosol”, invention disclosure completed• 2005 - V. Harinath, C. Banerjee and J. Sankar, “Synthesis of gold metal oxide catalyst for catalytic

oxidation of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide by vapor deposition of gaseous ammonia”, invention disclosure completed

• 2005 - A. Pandya and J. Sankar, “ Resorcinol-ketone polymers” A new technology disclosure has been filed

• 2005 - E. Deyneka, C. Banerjee and J. Sankar, “ An improved process for fabrication of gold-alumina and gold-titania nanocomposites for carbon monoxide removal at room temperature” A New technology disclosure has been filed.

• 2004 - K. Bala, J. Sankar and D. Pai, “To Develop a sub surface or "below-the-surface" localized hard coating based on ceramics and metals by impregnation.” U. S. Patent Application, draft completed by patent attorney representing A&T.

• 2004 - J. Lou, V. Harinath, S. Ilias, J. Sankar, “An ultrahigh selectivity oxygen enrichment filled polymer membrane”, U. S. Patent Application, draft completed by patent attorney representing A&T , one U.S. company signed confidential disclosure agreement with A&T Technology Transfer Office.

• 2004 - W. J Craft submitted Patent disclosure for two (2) types of pressure differential sensor with potential automotive and nuclear applications. Developed an additional sensor with high accuracy that is unaffected by temperature excursions. (CAMSS indirectly supported this)

• 2003 - Structural Health monitoring: The team has secured a patent for a sensor array system (US Patent application number 09/592,884 – M.J. Sundaresan, A. Ghoshal, and M.J. Schulz, “Continuous Acoustic Emission and Vibration Sensor,” (CAMSS indirectly supported this)

• NC State ( J. Narayan) received 2 patents in electronic materials (support came from CAMSS) • Other upcoming patents/disclosures being initiated: We are in the process of working out the details

related to patenting two (2) technical developments carried out under the auspices of CAMSS. They are (I) fuel cell materials development and set-up (II) related to innovative composite processing

“Participation of educational institution in economic development”Universities of the Future



Strategic Partnerships and Collaborations Strategic Partnerships and Collaborations (not just on paper)(not just on paper)

Joint research and educational activities with various universities, federal facilities and industries and International educational and research units

• Partnership - NC A&T State University and NCSU: 69 joint publications; co-edited Composites B Engineering Journal, Vol. 30 B, 1999; joint proposals, new courses and student advising.

• Partnership – ORNL: Direct leveraging research funding, joint faculty, joint proposals, joint journal editing, undergraduate and graduate students summer internship at ORNL, joint publications with ORNL scientists.

• MoU - NC A&T State University and University of New Orleans (2000): co-sponsored and co-organized international conferences ICCE/5, ICCE/6, ICCE/7, ICCE/8, ICCE/9, ICCE/10 ICCE/11; co-edited Composites B Engineering Journal, Vol. 30 B, 1999;Vol. 35 B No 2, 2004, joint proposals and joint new journal editions.

• MoU - Naval Undersea Warfare Center, NUWC and NC A&T State University (2001): research funding and employer of 2 PhD minority students.

• Educational Partnership Agreement between Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana) and NC A&T State University (1999): 3 faculty performed PhD research at CAMSS. 2 at present.

• Educational Partnership Agreement between Dnyaneshwar Vidyapeeth College of Hi-Tech Engineering (India) and NC A&T State University (1999): 1 faculty performed PhD research at CAMSS.

• Collaborative activities with Kumamoto University (Japan): 1 faculty spent 1 year sabbatical at CAMSS• Strengthen ongoing joint research activities with Frantzevich Institute (Kiev) and Institute for Single Crystals

(Kharkov) – Ukraine (Joint conference with NATO at Kiev, June 2003, 2004, May 2005)• MoU between NC A&T State University and Inha University, S. Korea (2004): 1 visiting faculty and student

working on joint electrostatic paper actuator• MoU between NC A&T State University and Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, People's Republic of

China (2000)• MoU with BIT (India) – 2005 ( organized international conference)• STTRs with various small business/industries



PartnershipPartnershipUniversities:• North Carolina State University• University of Pittsburgh• University of Florida• University of Dayton• University of New Orleans• University of Connecticut• University of Cincinnati• University of Illinois (UC)• University of Wisconsin (Madison)• Michigan Technological University• Nkrumah University of Science

and Technology (Ghana)• Dnyaneshwar Vidyapeeth

Engineering College (India)

• IITs (India) • Inha University (S. Korea)• University of Aviero (Portugal)• BIT (India)• TNAU (India)• Northeast Polytechnical Univ.

(China)

Government:• NSF• DOE• ORNL• NASA• ARL• ONR• AFRL• FAA• Naval Undersea Warfare

Command• IPMS (Ukraine)• Others

Private:• Southwest Research Institute• Lockheed Martin • Boeing• Hamilton Sundstrand• United Technologies• Alcoa• IBM• Volvo• Advanced Ceramics Inc.• Thomas Built Buses• Global Engineering Inc.• Foster-Miller, Inc.• Nanotech Lab• QuarTek Corporation• Triangle Polymer• Performance Polymer

Solutions Inc.

True Collaboration based on TRUST and utmost RESPECT based on how you think and how you conduct your business – track record

Strong ties with ALL

Strong on deadlines and deliverables



GlobalizationGlobalizationActive in organizing , sponsoring international conferences, symposia, technical sessions , major government interdisciplinary workshops,

journals etc.• 2003- ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, “Processing, Characterization and

Modeling of Multifunctional Materials” Symposium with full peer-reviewed publication, Washington DC, Nov 16-21, 2003.

• 2003- Advanced Research Workshop “Mixed Ionic Electronic Conducting (MIEC) Perovskites for Advanced Energy Systems” Kyiv, Ukraine June 1-5, 2003 (sponsored by CAMSS and NATO) . Also organized a special workshop during this conference on International consortium for global materials research and education

• 2003 - ICCE/10 Tenth International Conference on Composites Engineering, New Orleans, LA, July 20-26, 2003

• 2004 - ICCE/11 Eleventh International Conference on Composites Engineering, Hilton Head, SC, August 8-14, 2004• 2004- ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, “Innovative Processing for

Engineered Composites” Symposium with full peer-reviewed publication, Anaheim, CA, Nov, 2004.• 2004- NIA/NASA “ Smart Actuator Conference” VA, Dec 2004• 2004- Organized Materials Research Society (MRS) Symposium “Integration of Advanced Micro and

Nanoelectronic Devices – Critical Issues and Solutions,” San Francisco, CA, 2004.• 2004- NATO Advanced Research Workshop “Fuel Cell Technologies: State and Perspectives ” Kyiv, Ukraine June

6-10, 2004 (co-sponsored by CAMSS)• 2004- International Conference on Advances in Structural Integrity, 14-17 July 2004, Indian Institute of Science,

Bangalore, India

• 2005- MRS Symposium “Magnetic Nanoparticles and Nanowires” (San Francisco, April 2005) • 2005- ICCE/12 Twelfth International Conference on Composites Engineering, Spain, August 2-7, 2005• 2005- ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, “Innovative Processing for

Engineered Composites” Symposium with full peer-reviewed publication, Orlando, FL, Nov, 2005.• 2005- “Advances in Materials , Product Design and Manufacturing Systems” Conference with full peer-reviewed

proceedings, Dec12-14, 2005, Tamilnadu, India.

• 2006- MRS Symposium ( San Francisco) completed, ICCE-13 ( July 2-8 , 2006), ASME and OTHERS ARE BEING WORKED OUT (Dec 2006 and for entire 2007 and 2008)

“Quality and reputation from networking”



Educational OutreachEducational Outreach• K-12: CAMSS faculty advises students on various

voluntary summer projects (“Creation of a High School Competition on a Minimum-weight Truss”, Polymers, Rocket design etc. REU (ORNL programs, UIUC etc)

• CAMSS scientists participated in the NASA Sharp Program (formerly known as NASA SHARP PLUS Research Apprenticeship Program) during summer 2003, 2004, and 2005.

• Teacher Training: Summer Teacher Workshop in July 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 for Guilford and Wake County school teachers was organized by CAMSS scientists.

• Routine visitations from schools to CAMSS and support of CAMSS to Science Fairs

• Outreach Seminars to local community by CAMSS scientists

• Plant Trips as part of BS education (Alcoa, United Technologies, local industries)

A team of A & T undergraduate students with Dr. W. D. Minter, Director, Small Business Program Office at ORNL (2nd row: First from left) and Dr. Lee Riedinger, ORNL Deputy Director (2nd row: Second from left), participating in a “Day of Science” meeting at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge

“Mentoring the workforce of tomorrow”



Faculty, Teachers, Ph.D, MS and BS students “Being a part of K-12 education”



Distinctive Visionary Interdisciplinary ActivitiesDistinctive Visionary Interdisciplinary Activities• Well established interdisciplinary activities involving Materials Science, Materials Engineering,

Mechanical, Chemical, Industrial Electrical, Bio-environmental, Chemistry, Processing, Manufacturing, Physics, and Computational Science.

• Shared experimental facilities – 18 research labs at A&T,ORNL and other collaborative facilities (at US and international research universities/facilities and federal labs)

• Interdisciplinary work with the recently-established National Institute of Aerospace involving NASA-LaRC and six major universities

• Interdisciplinary student activities including SAE Mini Baja, Formula SAE, and Intercollegiate Auto Racing Association (ICAR-A) Legends car racing (top ten in the country)

• Industrial involvement in curriculum/research development (SwRI, Alcoa, Caterpillar, RJR, Kopin Corporation, Adiabatics, GE, Cummins, Bodycote, Ford Motor Company, Boeing, Hamilton Sundstrand, Tensar Corporation, Volvo, Michelin, EPRI, United Technology, Global Engineering and Thomas-Built Buses)

• Continuous development of innovative and team-taught courses and curricula for undergraduate and graduate students: (Advanced Materials and Smart Structures I,, Quantitative Microstructural Image Analysis, Advanced Materials and Processes I and II, Fundamentals of Tribology, Structural Health Monitoring, Senior Design Project, Polymer Science and Engineering, Computational Multi-scale modeling, and e-Course initiatives).

• Research Experience for Undergraduates Programs and routine sponsorship of outreach activities to local area schools

• About 30 visitors from academe, industry and government and 25 seminars and presentations annually.



PhD ProductivityPhD Productivity

May 2004 commencement – 3 women and 4 men in this photo received their PhD degrees using CAMSS resources and worked directly in nanoengineering research (A&T has filed for Carnegie doctoral research intensive classification)



PhD ProductivityPhD Productivity

May 2006 commencement – 4 out of this 10 students in this photo received their PhD degrees working directly in nanoengineering using CAMSS resources (Officially A&T moved to Carnegie doctoral research intensive classification in 2005)

NOTE: At present there are even more Ph.D students working in Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology at A&T thereby strengthening to maintain the Carnegie doctoral research intensive status in the future.



Future Directions Based Strong FoundationFuture Directions Based Strong Foundation

• Initiation of innovative research and educational ideas via “Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology” Research Cluster involving entire University

• CAMSS with its University-recognized status as an umbrella center to facilitate broad-based materials research in the Piedmont Triad

• Nucleation of new focused research thrust areas under CAMSS• Active participant in University’s Millennium Research Campus (A&T, UNCG

joint venture approved by UNC Office of the President)• Active participant in North Carolina Nanotechnology and biotechnology Initiative

of the Office of Governor Mike Easley• Routine coverage in newspapers, TV media, Greensboro Business Journal• CAMSS becoming a research wing of the Triad entrepreneurial organizations

involved in materials research and applications. ( Nanoaccelerator) • Major push in biomaterials and bioengineering activities with University of

Pittsburgh, Wake Forest and various Triad bio-sciences corporations• To become an integral part of Guilford County K-12 education



What we are achievingWhat we are achieving

The Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures is creating a cross-disciplinary infrastructure that transcends departmental, institutional, industrial, governmental and global barriers and lends itself to the integration of research and education in the vital field of advanced materials, smart structures and nanotechnologies

• True collaborative endeavor in concept • Strategic resource sharing in execution • Tangible benefits for each constituency

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With this foundation, CAMSS will leverage its Enhanced and Diversified Resources to create a Truly Responsive Learning EnvironmentWith this foundation, CAMSS will leverage its Enhanced and Diversified Resources to create a Truly Responsive Learning Environment



“What Works: Lesson Learned by a Successful Interdisciplinary Center”

A Cross Cutting Theme via Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

Dr. Jag SankarDistinguished University Professor and White House Millennium Researcher

Director- CAMSS(NSF-CREST, DoD-CNN, NSF-NSEC)

Fort IRC Bldg., Suite 242, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA

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