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Annual Review of Category 3 Research Centers/Institutes 1

Center for Micro Engineered Materials

Fernando GarzonDirectorProfessor: Chemical and Biological EngineeringAdrian BrearleyAssociate DirectorDistinguished Professor: Earth and Planetary Sciences

2019 Annual Review Of Category 3 Research Centers/Institutes | 03/05/2019


Theory, Modeling & Analysis:• Ivana Gonzales CBE/LANL• Jamie Gomez CBE• D. Petsev CBE• F. Van Swol CBE• Randy Schunk SNL/CBE• Kristianto Tjiptowidjojo CBE

CMEM Faculty & Staff Experimental • Adrian Brearley EPS• Ying-Bing Jiang EPS • Abhaya Datye CBE• Fernando Garzon CBE/SNL• Jose Cerrato CCE• Jeff Brinker CBE• Osman Anderoglu NE• Tom Peng AFRL• Lok-Kun Tsui CMEM• Tim Boyle SNL/Chem• Bernie Hernandez-Sanchez SNL/Chem• Hongyou Fan SNL/CBE• Chris Apblett SNL/CBE• Shuya Wei, CBE*• Nick Carroll, CBE*• Rodney Borup LANL• Rangachary Mukundan LANL*• Eric Coker SNL*

Advanced Characterization Research Staff:• Ying-Bing Jiang EPS• Eric Peterson EPS• Elena Dobrica EPS• Angelica Benavidez CMEM• Geoffrey Courtin CBE• Chris Anderson EPS

*Indicates new CMEM Member

Center Support Staff:• Estelle Zamora• Svetlana Shevkun• Rosalina Preciado


The primary mission of the UNM Center for Micro-Engineered Materials (CMEM) is to serve as a focal point

for collaborative, interdisciplinary, micro-engineered materials research, development and education

Mission

HRSEM

HRTEM FEGTEM

Powder Characterization XRD

Raman Microscope

XPS

X-ray Diffraction


Membership of Advisory Committee 2019Christos Christodoulou, Dean of Engineering and ComputingMark Peceny, Dean of Arts and Sciences Sang M. Han, Associate Chair of Chemical and Biological EngineeringJeff Rack, Chair of Chemistry and Chemical BiologyYu-Lin Shen, Chair of Mechanical EngineeringArash Mafi, Director of UNM Center for High Technology MaterialsElizabeth Kuuttila, President and CEO of STC.UNM

• October 24th 2019 Fall Review Meeting


CY 2019 Goals And StatusCMEM’s main goals are:

• To serve as a catalyst for the development of nano and micro-engineered technologies to make NM and the US more competitive.

• To collaborate with NM Universities, Sandia, LANL and AFRL in high quality materials R&D.• To engage with UNM.STC to transfer these technologies to industry fostering the development of

competitive businesses within the State of New Mexico. • To support campus-wide nanomaterials research by maintaining high performance characterization facilities.• To engage the UNM undergraduate and graduate STEM students in nano-materials & geologic materials

research and development.• To support interdisciplinary academic programs, such as Nanoscience and Microsystems Engineering and

course offerings in CBE, CCB, EPS, ME and CCECMEM’s current Status

• All CMEM user facilities are fully operational with research faculty supervision. New Facility in planning• CMEM Faculty losses: Two Profs. left UNM, Plamen Atanassov & MehranTerhani, • CMEM Faculty gains: Profs. Shuya Wei and Nick Carroll• CMEM Faculty recruits: Eric Coker Sandia, R. (Mukund) Mukundan LANL• CMEM Faculty retention: Associate Prof. Jose Manuel Cerrato


• CMEM Researchers published over 70 papers in Nature, Science, ACS, APS, ECS, MRS, Geophysical Society, A.Chemie Journals

• UNM/Sandia National Laboratory Professor, Hongyou Fan is the sole recipient of the 2019 Mid-Career Researcher Award from the Materials Research Society, the largest materials society in the United States. The distinction is given midway in a researcher’s career for exceptional achievements in materials research and for notable leadership in the field.

• UNM CMEM participants in NSF-CISTAR-ERC obtain additional funding for two Research professors due to NSF’s recognition of the importance of UNM research

• CMEM members (Tsui, Garzon) win $1.5M DOE-FE award for sensor networks for monitoring natural gas infrastructure

• CMEM members (Datye, Gonzales) DOE-EERE-AMO Advanced Catalysts $300K and DOE ARPA-E(Gonzales) Proton Membrane Development $180K

• CMEM members (Shunk, Tjiptowidjojo) DOE-AMO Roll to Roll Manufacturing Consortium $300K

CY 2019 Highlights


Invests in the future by acquisition of new instrumentation that stimulates and enables new research activities, enhancing UNM’s flagship status and competitiveness in research: New PAIS Facility, JEOL NeoARM delivered, JEOL 2010 gift transfer to UNM from Sandia in processCMEM/EPS facilities act as core characterization facilities for UNM, NM academic institutions, as well as users from SNL, LLNL, CINT, AFRL and local business. For many instruments, UNM is the core facility for the State of New Mexico. Staff teach key characterization classes for undergraduate and graduate students.Provide hands on instrument training to develop skilled graduates with excellent high-level analytical skills that are in high demand in academia and the workforce.

CMEM/EPS Analytical Facilities JEOL©

60 kV image of graphene


$1.2M (TEM) and $800K (FIB) in revenues from user fees generated154 Individual, unique principal investigators served~400 Individual users, including 180 graduate studentsDiverse user base from across UNM campus and externally:College of Arts and Sciences: EPS, P&A, Biology, CCB, IOMSchool of Engineering: CBE, ME, CE, EECE, NECollege of Fine Arts: Tamarind InstituteUNM Centers: CMEM, CHTM, CBME, CRESTHSC: Pharmacy, Pathology, Community Health, Core Microscopy FacilityExternal Health Facilities: VA Hospital, Lovelace Respiratory InstituteNational & DOD Laboratories: SNL, LANL, CINT, AFRLExternal Universities: Highland, NMT, ENMU, Missouri, U. Hawaii, Wash. U.Companies: Pajarito Powders, Sasol, Fairchild Semiconductor, NanoNMR, BioDirection, EWII Fuel Cells, MicroExact, Oncothyreon, Soladigm, World Minerals, Zircoa

CMEM/EPS TEM/FIB-SEM laboratory – achievements FY09-FY19


• Faculty and laboratory staff contribute to core mission of UNM through teaching materials characterization classes for graduate and undergraduate students:

• NSMS 512/CHEM469,569/ CBE412,512: Characterization Methods for Nanostructures ~45 students/year

• EPS 538L - Analytical Electron Microscopy – taught every Spring semester – 144 graduate students since 2009

• EPS 400/500: Introduction to X-ray diffraction – 54 undergraduate and graduate since 2009.

• CBE477,577/CHEM 519 Electrochemistry & Electrochemical Engineering ~25 students/year

• CBE371, Introduction to Materials Engineering, ~50 students/year

• Laboratory training and mentorship of undergraduate students.~30/yr at AML

Return on Investment: Graduate and Undergraduate Training

Return on Investment: Publications, Patents, Presentations 2019

• Current CMEM Researchers published over 70 papers in Nature, Science, ACS, APS, ECS, MRS, Geophysical Society, A.Chemie Journals

• Current CMEM members made over 60 Scientific Presentations at Major International Society Conferences, ACS, AICHE, APS, MRS, ECS, TMS, AGU

• Active CMEM members have over 110,000 citations total. Junior and Mid-Career members citation rates show dramatic increases.

• 7 patents applied for, 3 provisional and 1 granted


Proposals & Awards

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10,000,000

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20,000,000

25,000,000

30,000,000

35,000,000

40,000,000

FY17 FY18 FY19

Proposals

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500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2,000,000

2,500,000

3,000,000

3,500,000

4,000,000

4,500,000

FY17 FY18 FY19

Awards

Note: Many FY19 Federal proposal calls delayed hence low FY19 submissions, FY20 submissions increasing


Research Expenditures and F&A

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500,000.00

1,000,000.00

1,500,000.00

2,000,000.00

2,500,000.00

3,000,000.00

3,500,000.00

4,000,000.00

FY17 FY18 FY19

Research Expenditures

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200,000

400,000

600,000

800,000

1,000,000

1,200,000

1,400,000

FY17 FY18 FY19

F&A


Salaries, $218,553 , 39%

Fringe Benefits, $81,237 , 15%

Materials & Supplies, $259,834 ,

46%

CMEM EXPENDITURE DETAILSFY19 Sources of Revenue

F&A Return $ 299,989

VPR Pullback $ (14,759)

PI F&A Return $ (54,823)

Cost Share $ (69,705)

Service Centers $ 113,973

Other $ 92,369

Support from OVPR $ 341,086

FY19 Reserves $ 512,402

Total Revenue $ 1,220,531

Annual Review of Category 3 Research Centers/Institutes

T H R E AT S

W E A K N E S S E SS T R E N G T H S

O P P O R T U N I T I E S

• CMEM established AML faculty is aging

• Retention of Mid-Career Faculty

• NM provides minimal State support

• CMEM tools are aging

• CMEM does not have any endowments

• South Campus rental costs

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• CMEM Continues to bring world-class capabilities in micro and nanoscience and engineering -best in NM

• CMEM couples solution and colloid chemistry and physics with advanced manufacturing engineering to provide innovation

• CMEM provides multi-disciplinary theoretical, computational and experimental capabilities to solve complex problems

• Increased DOE & AFRL connections• New CMEM-Sandia-AFRL Facility in

planning stage• Benefactor named PAIS microscopy

facility?• CHEM, EPS, ME, CBE, CCE recruiting

new faculty

• Declining Basic Science and Engineering Federal support

• Aging CMEM Faculty• Recruitment of top graduate students more

difficult-foreign student visa barriers and more job opportunities

• Retention of early/mid career faculty


Looking Ahead to 2020• CMEM will pursue adding new state of the art Electron Microscopy and X-ray Metrology

tools to support the UNM STEM community.

• CMEM will continue revaluation of instrumental user fees to ensure access while keeping facilities operational with trained supervisory personnel.

• CMEM will aggressively pursue large multi-disciplinary & multi-researcher grants and contracts from NSF, DOE, EERE Grand Scale Energy Storage, FE, ARPA, BES, AMO, AFRL, AO, ONR, AFRL and Private funding sources.

• CMEM will continue to work with the Senior Vice President, Provost, Deans & VPR to help eliminate the rent burden, especially since the building loans have been paid off. This will allow CMEM to provide F&A return to the Deans of A&S and SOE and the departments of participating faculty.


Summary• CMEM has a strong national presence with multi-investigator participation in NSF, NIH,

DOE and DOD programs, and international visibility through the professional service and visibility of its faculty and organization of major learned society events.

• CMEM is relocating capabilities from aging Northrop Hall to new PAIS Facility. • CMEM at the AML is a vibrant site at UNM Science & Technology Park and continues being

a “human bridge” to SNL & AFRL supporting collaborations in materials research with real collaborations between UNM and Federal partners.

• CMEM continues to win high dollar Federal support and foster the development of Tenure Track, Tenured and Research Faculty.

• CMEM provides a major educational resource for UNM students, engaging many undergraduate and Graduate STEM students in NSF, DOE and DOD research projects.

• CMEM now has a set of draft Bylaws for uniform future governance.

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