Core User Facilities (CUF) Mitigate experimental research infrastructure limitations, which impair collaborative research and development (R&D) in advanced manufacturing & materials, and appropriately change the culture I am adding a special feature here: allowing the map and the red text to appear after discussing what life was like before the CIMM project Then the talk can talk about how CUF fixes this problem and what we’ve done and what we’re doing. That’s the basic flow I’m developing here Supported by the US National Science Foundation through co-operative agreement OIA-1541079

Before CUF Research infrastructure spread across Louisiana but isolated, promoting inefficient duplication, No effective effort or means to pool resources, talent, investment and ensure efficiency and sustainability, No plan to communicate and share research resources/capabilities across Louisiana. Individual researchers limited to access only local research infrastructure and unable to access critical research infrastructure I am adding a special feature here: allowing the map and the red text to appear after discussing what life was like before the CIMM project Then the talk can talk about how CUF fixes this problem and what we’ve done and what we’re doing. That’s the basic flow I’m developing here

The Core User Facilities (CUF) Solution Leverage existing cost-recovery centers as the CIMM-CUF founding core members. Current CUF Members Statewide: Institute for Micro-manufacturing (IfM), Shared Instrumentation Facility (SIF), Advanced Manufacturing & Machining Facility (AM2F), Materials Manufacturing, Testing & Evaluation Facility (M2TEF). Other Potential CUF Members Under Consideration: Advanced Materials Research Institute (AMRI) National Center for Advanced Manufacturing Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD)

The CUF Solution - continued Integrated, easy access to state-of-the-art research infrastructure and capabilities in Advanced Manufacturing and Materials. Provides easy access to experimental facilities for R&D, support for, and promotes, a collaborative culture and community, education and training, growth of new state-of-the-art experimental capabilities. Sustainable – an ecosystem of cost-recovery centers. Efficient – avoid unnecessary & expensive duplication of resources, Widely Available – state-wide > nation-wide. CIMM CUF has introduced critical equipment that is available today

The CUF Solution - continued An integrated CUF Portal: Dedicated web site now available Full capabilities of CUF known within the state for the first time Enables facilities booking and interaction with CUF facilities experts Expanding the CUF footprint: Additional cost-recovery centers may join the CIMM-CUF in the future when they fulfill membership requirements detailed in the CUF Charter, generated as part of CIMM and the CUF solution Env. SEM + EDAX Develop a solution to include isolated instruments of general use residing in institutions without cost-recovery centers With CIMM Funding

Institute for Micromanufacturing (IfM) - Highlights Equipment and Services for Alternating Gradient Magnetometry Scanning Electron Microscopy (STT1&2) Hall Effect Measurements X-Ray Diffractometry (STT1&2) Thermogravimetric Analysis Spectroscopic Ellipsometry (STT1&2) Field Emission SEM with EDAX XRD Pictures from clockwise: SEM  Students at work in Lab space  XRD 48,000 ft2 of laboratory space, including 5,000 ft2 of modular clean-room space

CUF Success: Cross-Institutional Use Examples Already Working Within CIMM: Weiss (LaTECH) using 3D Metal Printing at AMMF (LSU) Arges (LSU) using IfM (LaTECH) e-beam evaps./magnetron sputtering Lvov and Montes (LaTECH) using the XRD at the SIF (LSU) IfM, AM2F/M2TEF, SIF Managers exchanged familiarization visits Training program is under development Leveraging external and other users of CUF constituent facilities: Other regional Universities (e.g. UT Austin, Lamar U., South. Miss. U., U. of Alabama, Kansas U.) Industry Customers (e.g. Albemarle, Stupp, start-ups …) Government Customers

CUF Today Accessible and growing ecosystem of sustainable cost-recovery centers, Growing collaborative community and culture in Advanced Manufacturing and Materials, Supporting cross-institutional and state-wide advanced R&D in Advanced Manufacturing and Materials.