Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for The Ohio State University Department of Materials Science and Engineering is a 64-PI network with 85 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Engineering as the leading field (43% of slots across 47 PIs; 47 labels), Mechanical Engineering as the leading subfield (18% of slots across 27 PIs; 27 labels), and Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties as the leading topic (3% of slots across 6 PIs; 6 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The top weighted PIs are Adib J. Samin (14.4 weighted works; Electrochemical Analysis and Applications, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures); Soheil Soghrati (13.4 weighted works; Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties, Numerical methods in engineering). The strongest pairings are Jianjun Guan and Zhaobo Fan (9 shared works, weight 5); Jianjun Guan and Yanyi Xu (7 shared works, weight 4.8). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 8 internal connections, weight 19, around Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, led by David W. McComb, Hamish L. Fraser, Roberto C. Myers.