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Glassy meta-materials Functional coatings Glasses engineered for strength Ionic functionality Optical functionality Biofunctionality International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass (DMR-0409588) PI: H. Jain, Lehigh University. Co-PI: C.G. Pantano, Penn State University “More than half of the engineering marvels of the 20th century that made the greatest impact on the quality of life have relied on the exceptional properties and fabrication methods available with inorganic glass. For glass to remain competitive also in future, IMI-NFG is : (a) facilitating international collaborations of fundamental and applied research, which will introduce new functionalities in glass, (b) developing multimedia products and delivering them across the borders to educate next generation of glass researchers and engineers, and (c) promoting the appreciation of glass as a high-tech material among pre-college students and other research communities.” IMI-NFG Thrusts For details of our projects, please visit www.lehigh.edu/imi

IMI-NFG delivers glass science education across the borders: 

IMI-NFG delivers glass science education across the borders Semester-long Course: Optical and Photonic Glasses 39 archieval lectures on glass science and optical applications by Prof. Rui M. Almeida, Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal) Delivered live over video link (MATPAC) to five PA Universities Future resource to entire glass cummunity on DVD or via webcast. For delivery across the world, IMI-NFG is developing hour-long tutorials, semester length courses and state-of-the-art lectures on ‘hot topics’ of glass science and engineering. In the first phase, one full-semester course, 4 tutorial lectures and 15 hot topic lectures were recorded for delivery via the Internet or DVD. Tutorials and State-of-the-Art Lectures by international experts Professors Kanert (Germany), Chakravorty (India), Kamitsos (Greece) and Frumar (Czech Republic) photographed after recording their lectures at Lehigh University.

Undergraduate researchers nucleate new domestic & international collaborations: 

Undergraduate researchers nucleate new domestic & international collaborations (Upper right) Jamie Neilson, IMI-NFG’s first international REU scholar, also a Goldwater scholar, is shown discussing his findings on THz spectroscopy of glass, with his Lehigh and Cambridge advisers. IMI-NFG’s REU Students – 2005 Domestic: The first batch of REU students from Wisconsin, Texas and Massachusetts nucleated research collaborations at Lehigh University. They investigated anti-bacterial glasses, probed nano-glasses by combined excitation-emission spectroscopy, and developed glass education modules for younger students. International: Two undergraduate students from US conducted research on THz properties of glass at Cambridge (UK), and on ion transport phenomena in glasses at Muenster University (Germany). (Lower right) Prad Gupta, a graduate student of glass science explains how to make glass to the newly arrived three IMI-REU students at Lehigh University.