Mark Swihart Executive Director New York State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics

CoE in Materials Informatics University at Buffalo NYSTAR Faculty expertise in computational materials R&D and product design and analysis Education, training and outreach related to materials informatics Funding opportunities including CMI Applied Research Grant program, UB SBIA, UB I-CON, UB CAT, etc. Programming: I-Corps, Bright Buffalo Niagara, etc. Over 80 materials scientists, chemists, physicists, and engineers with growing strength in materials informatics R&D Nanomaterials: quantum dots, plasmonic nanostructures, graphene, 2D materials, nanocomposites, and upconverting nanoparticles Additive manufacturing Clean energy technologies such as LED materials, energy conservation, photovoltaics, fuel cells, water-to-hydrogen nanomaterials, and batteries Coatings for optical, medical, and industrial applications Gas processing, purification, separation, air handling and filtration First-principles modeling, molecular simulation of materials, computational fluid dynamics, coupled multiphysics modeling including electromagnetism Optics, photonics, lasers, semiconductors and electronics, novel electronic materials

Shared Equipment & Instrumentation Advanced Optical, Scanning Probe, and Electron Microscopy Optical Spectroscopy/Mass Spectrometry Atom Probe Tomography Thermal Processing & Analysis Semiconductor fabrication cleanroom (etching, deposition, lithography, etc.) Dual-Beam Focused Ion Beam/Scanning Electron Microscopy & Lithography X-ray Scattering, Diffraction & Fluorescence

Biological & Biomedical Materials & Devices Continuum & Multiscale Modeling Data Analytics & Machine Learning Design, Digital & Additive Manufacturing Inorganic Materials Synthesis & Processing Materials Characterization & Spectroscopy Photonic & Electronic Devices Polymeric & Macromolecular Materials Synthesis & Processing Quantum, Atomistic & Molecular Modeling

The company has raised $1.35M to date and growing fast! November, 2013 Vader Systems contacts UB March, 2013 National Grid High-Tech Entrepreneurship Opportunity Program grant May, 2014 TCIE SPIR grant with Prof. E. Furlani and UB CCR for multiphysics modeling March, 2015 UB CAT grant to develop on-demand aluminum filters and x-ray phantoms March, 2015 Vader Systems presents at UB-hosted regional conference on Additive Manufacturing November, 2015 CMI funds Professor Chi Zhou to investigate process-structure-properties-performance relationships, establish optimization approaches and devise online monitoring & a closed loop control system October, 2016 Vader Systems entered the Start-Up NY Program. October, 2016 Rochester Institute of Technology AMPrint Center to acquire the first liquid metal 3D-printing system January, 2017 Vader Systems receives a CMI-funded intern (Spring, 2017) through the UB CMI AMCEP March, 2017 Vader Systems indicated they have hired five UB graduate engineers to date March, 2017 Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul visits Vader Systems at their new headquarters in Getzville, NY The company has raised $1.35M to date and growing fast!