Ayokunle Olanrewaju, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and of bioengineering, has received one of four seed grants from UW’s Institute for Nano-engineered Systems (NanoES). The grants, made to researchers at the University of Washington (UW) and Western Washington University, support the use of nanotechnology tools to develop new, innovative technologies and devices. Awardees will receive up to $10,000 to carry out work in the UW’s Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF) and Molecular Analysis Facility (MAF), key nanotechnology facilities in the Northwest Nanotechnology Infrastructure, which is one of 16 sites in the NSF’s National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) program. “We were thrilled with the range of novel proposals that we received from researchers across the Pacific Northwest,” said NanoES director Karl Böhringer, who is a joint professor of electrical & computer engineering and bioengineering at the University of Washington. “We look forward to seeing the outcome of these projects and their impact.”
This seed grant program enables first-time facility users both inside and outside the UW to build and characterize prototypes, obtain preliminary results and conduct proof of concept studies.
